Reframing the Self(ie)

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-45
Author(s):  
Sarah Ann Bixler
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Youth Ministry ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Developmental Theory ◽  
The Self ◽  
Inner Self ◽  
Self Discovery ◽  
Theological Understanding ◽  
To Receive

Based on developmental psychology, youth ministry has often regarded the adolescent self in terms of a search for identity. The selfie demonstrates this psychosocial attempt to discover one’s self and receive affirmation for it. While developmental theory is helpful and relevant for youth ministry, theology offers a more desirable foundation on which to build youth ministry practices. Thomas Merton’s theological understanding of the self addresses this dilemma, whereby the self finds the adolescent. This perspective can help us reframe youth ministry’s assumptions based on developmental psychology, which regard the adolescent’s task as self-discovery. As James Loder describes, the inner self emerges through God’s transformation. This is an issue of reordering of theology and psychology. For adolescents to position themselves to receive this inner transformation, Christian ministry with young people can effectively facilitate a posture of prayer whereby God can affect the transformation of the deepest sense of the self.

Light of Day Scaffolding a Theology of Youth Ministry

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-32
Author(s):  
Bert Roebben
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Youth Ministry ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Theological Understanding ◽  
A Site

Is Youth Ministry involved in the creation of new theology? This article assesses the potential of engaging in a 'living theology' by listening to and liaising with the spiritual insights of young people. The conditions for such a theology are created by three movements towards young people. Initially, by noticing and respecting their voices, secondly through crafting space within our theorising for young people's insight to shape theological understanding and thirdly by embracing the lives of young people as a site for connection with God and the construction of theology.

scholarly journals Exploring the Theology of Expectation in Relation to Young People and Youth Ministry

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
František Štěch
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Characteristic Feature ◽  
Youth Ministry ◽  
Young Age ◽  
The Future ◽  
Christian Understanding ◽  
Theological Understanding

Abstract This article introduces theology of expectation designed by Czech theologian Vladimír Boublík and considers its capacity to potentially enhance the theological background of youth ministry. It starts with a presentation of expectation as a characteristic feature of humanity which is specifically intensive in young age and proceeds with a particular, Christian understanding of expectation in relation to eschatology. Drawing upon Boublík’s treatment of expectation a few inspirations and impulses for the field of youth ministry research are suggested. In its conclusion, the article argues that expecting the future in general and awaiting Christ in particular forms a standpoint that comprises a potential for solid theological understanding to young people and helps to perceive youth ministry as an environment where good theology might be transformed into good projects.

scholarly journals Prilog koncipiranju nove teorije životnog vijeka

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (16) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katica Lacković-Grgin
Keyword(s):  
Life Span ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Defense Mechanisms ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Developmental Theory ◽  
The Self ◽  
Primary And Secondary Control ◽  
Personal Contribution ◽  
Confined Domains

Modern developmental psychology has been characterised with a wealth of empirical facts and a relatively small number of theories, which are mostly oriented to the confined time of development and confined domains of functioning. Because of some important changes in contemporary developmental psychology, according to which it is no more just a theory of child development but the life-span developmental psychology, it is very important to integrate information about different developmental aspects. It should bring into accord analysis with respect to life periods and different behaviors. In a new developmental theory attention should be directed to the personal contribution to one's own development and the self-regulation of the development. The theory of personal development which is proposed by Heckhausen and Schultz (1995)includes primary and secondary control of development. On the basis of some empirical indications it should be proposed that the new theory has to include tertiary control as well. The tertiray control of development is neglected probably because it includes some more mature personality defense mechanisms. Developmental self-regulation could be reached through connection of outer demands (biological and social) with the efforts of each person in accordance to primary, secondary and tertiary control.

‘Getting Naked with Gok Wan’: A psychoanalytic reading of How To Look Good Naked’s transformational narratives

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodora Thomadaki
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Awareness ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Self In Relation ◽  
Inner Self ◽  
Close Textual Analysis ◽  
Emotionally Troubled ◽  
Self Discovery

Gok Wan’s television fashion series How To Look Good Naked (Channel 4, 2006–10) has vividly revolutionized the self-improvement genre. By developing a playful, caring and female-friendly makeover platform that values the articulation of emotional experiences in relation to the body, the series facilitates the exploration of the inner layers of subjectivity through the psychological exercises and self-reflective practices that Gok Wan sets out for his subjects. Playful mechanisms of creativity are central to his makeover practice, integrating fashion techniques and stylistic practices to encourage his female participants to reflect upon and make sense of their emotionally troubled experiences in relation to the body. Makeover props belonging to his female subjects play a fundamental role in activating a process of self-reflection and exploration of the self through relatedness. Through the close textual analysis of How To Look Good Naked (Series 2 Episode 6), this article applies Donald Woods Winnicott’s psychoanalytic ideas (1957, 1963, 1960, 1971), to argue that the creative dimensions of Gok Wan’s makeover technique reveal an object relating psychoanalytic process that entails a form of therapeutic playing; one that allows his female participants to restore aspects of self in relation to the body and to gain an emotional awareness of these experiences that leads eventually to self-discovery and self-acceptance. Ultimately, this reading of Gok Wan’s method confirms the emotional and cultural value of makeover narratives to generate rich opportunities that enrich notions of inner-self experience.

The Christian Story of the Body as the Ritual Plot for Youth Ministry

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-106
Author(s):  
Bård Eirik Hallesby Norheim
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Youth Ministry ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
The Body ◽  
Hunger Games ◽  
Ritual Theory ◽  
The Hunger Games ◽  
Funeral Rituals

The rationale for a special ministry to and with young people has often been rooted in narratives of culture or developmental psychology. This article argues that the Christian story of the body as it is unfolded in most Christian funeral rituals should be the story that orders youth ministry. Based on an understanding of youth as a phase of transition, a reading of the narrative of the Hunger Games trilogy, ritual theory, and contemporary theological engagements with the body and embodiment, the article argues that youth ministry should be ordered by the Christian story of the body as created, finite and living under the hope of resurrection. Making this story the ritual plot in youth ministry turns youth ministry into a catechesis of hope.

Who are Youth in Theological Perspective?

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-145
Author(s):  
František Štěch
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Youth Ministry ◽  
Fundamental Theology ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Theological Perspective ◽  
Related Group ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Theological Understanding ◽  
Theological Vision

Who are youth in theological perspective? The central question this article is trying to ask is: How does youth ministry research on youth connect with systematic or more specifically fundamental theology? The first section, following the introduction, aims to summarise traditional perspectives on young people predominantly as an age-related group. The second section attempts to describe the specific theological vision on youth and its connection to youth theology. The final section seeks a new perspective on youth by introducing fundamental theology and drawing on its particular concept of “expectation” proposed by Czech theologian Vladimír Boublík. It is argued that a theological understanding of youth is a necessary prerequisite for any genuine theological engagement with young people and vice versa. Here, theological engagement with young people may bring fresh insights into the dry bodies of traditional theological disciplines, including fundamental theology.

Cosmopolitan Empowerments and Biographical Trajectories among Young French Fans of Hallyu

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (34) ◽  
pp. 95-118
Author(s):  
Vincenzo Cicchelli ◽  
◽  
Sylvie Octobre ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
The Self ◽  
French People ◽  
Depth Interviews

This article explores the passion of young French people for the Hallyu, within the framework of an analysis of the contribution of the “consumption of difference” (Schroeder 2015) to the formation of the self through the figure of the 'cosmopolitan amateur' (Cicchelli and Octobre 2018a). We will first look at the reasons for the success of Hallyu in France then discuss the different forms of empowerment stemmed from the consumption of Korean products, among young people (74 in depth-interviews with young fans aged 18-31) with no previous link with Korea, which nurture their biographical trajectories.

Interviewing and Gender

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emanuela Dalmasso
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
The Self ◽  
Mena Region ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Self Discovery ◽  
And Gender

In this chapter, Emanuela Dalmasso examines the self-discovery and challenges that Western women face when conducting interviews in the MENA region. She looks at three main processes. First, how to cope with only being recognized as a woman and not as a scholar. In practice how to reset, kindly but firmly, the boundaries of the interaction when research participants focus on gender identity instead of the professional one. Second, how to recognize respondents’ various misperceptions of researcher’s identity and how to react to them. Finally, how to understand respondents’ intersectionality by inquiring into practices, not just discourses.

scholarly journals Alternative Forms of Spirituality and the Socialization of a Self-Enhancing Subjectivity: Features of the Post-Secular Religious Space in Contemporary Romania

2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sorin Gog
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Development ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
The Self ◽  
Traditional Religion ◽  
Religious Transformation ◽  
Technologies Of The Self ◽  
Counselling Services ◽  
Distinctive Type ◽  
Self Discovery ◽  
Development Literature

AbstractMy paper focuses on the shift in religious values in post-socialist Romania and explores the emergence of alternative spiritual beliefs and practices among the younger generations socialized during the post-communist period. It analyses some of the changes that occurred in the wider traditional religious field and looks at the various spiritualized technologies of the self that produce a distinctive type of religious subjectivity and an immanent ethics of authenticity. By departing from the idea of an integrated religious community and from the relational understanding of religious transformation, the field of alternative spiritualities operates a radical break with traditional religion and emphasizes the possibility of spiritual self-realization and self-discovery. It is this process of the individualizing sacralization of the self that constitutes the object of various workshops, blogs, personal and spiritual development literature, courses, spiritual retreats and counselling services. My research looks at how innovative technologies of the self are developed within these spaces that emphasize creativity, wellbeing and a new understanding of subjective interiority that learns how to find in itself the resources it needs to live in a spiritualized ontology of the present.2

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