Youth Worship in Protestant Contexts. A Practical Theology Theory of Participation of Adolescents

The central research question is: How do adolescents participate in youth worship gatherings? To answer this question we investigate in what adolescents participate, how they express themselves and which meanings they attribute to youth worship and various liturgical-ritual elements.

In this empirical study the actor perspective, this is the emic perspective, is investigated with the use of ethnographic methods. Local youth worship services and (inter)national youth worship events are the domain of research. The transcriptions of the interviews with adolescents in the age of 14-20, the transcriptions of the interviews with organizers, and the field notes of the participant observations are archived under the heading of 'youth worship services' and 'youth events', respectively.