CPYU President Walt Mueller's critically acclaimed book, Understanding Today's Youth Culture, is widely recognized as one of the most thorough and comprehensive overviews of youth culture today. This Gold Medallion Book Award winner is used as a seminal text in colleges, universities, and seminaries around the world, but is especially noted for its honest and easy to read style. The book approaches youth culture from a distinctively Christian perspective and contains chapters on a variety of topics including: music, media, sexuality, materialism, drugs and alcohol, and spirituality. A great resource for parents, educators, youth workers, and pastors.
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Walt Mueller is the founder and president of the Center for Parent Youth Understanding, a nonprofit ministry organization that has served churches, schools, and community organizations worldwide for nearly twenty years. He's a sought-after authority on youth culture and family issues and has appeared on CNN, Fox News, and the BBC.
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Walt Mueller is the founder and president of the Center for Parent Youth Understanding, a nonprofit ministry organization that has served churches, schools, and community organizations worldwide for nearly twenty years. He's a sought-after authority on youth culture and family issues and has appeared on CNN, Fox News, and the BBC.
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I am a youth minister of over 300 high school students and to 250 junior high students. I discovered this book through the Youth Specialties podcast a few months back and was so taken by author Walt Mueller's report of youth culture that I purchased and devoured the book.
This book offers parents and youth workers alike an opportunity to see the major trends and attitudes that are working within youth culture. I think the best treatment in this book is on Media and Marketing. Utilizing this information, I taught a class to parents of teens and then had a Life Night (our weekly gatherings in our Life Teen program) for our senior high students on Media and Marketing.
This book, especially in conjunction with "Hurt: Inside the World of Today's Teenager", can equip the parent or youth worker to become "cross-cultural missionaries" for the life and love of the young people today.
This book offers parents and youth workers alike an opportunity to see the major trends and attitudes that are working within youth culture. I think the best treatment in this book is on Media and Marketing. Utilizing this information, I taught a class to parents of teens and then had a Life Night (our weekly gatherings in our Life Teen program) for our senior high students on Media and Marketing.
This book, especially in conjunction with "Hurt: Inside the World of Today's Teenager", can equip the parent or youth worker to become "cross-cultural missionaries" for the life and love of the young people today.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Mueller's book is certainly fact-filled and informative which shines through as the strength of his book. Mueller, who updates his research for this book every few years, has given youth pastors, workers and volunteers a helpful guide for informing them about the world most American teens live in today. His research is well-documented and the quotes from teens and their peers help reinforce his data.
I believe the book is a helpful aid when looking for current data and research findings on our youth, but the book is certainly not a "how to" guide for youth ministry and Christian life formation. It's meant to be a survey over the various issues faced by current teens and the book definitely succeeds at that time and again with the numerous problems it discusses, from sex and drugs to entertainment mediums and peer relationships.
This book is a good guide for any youth pastor or volunteer wanting an update on current youth culture from a reliable and respected source in evangelical Christian youth ministry. Though the book is more of an informative survey than a helpful methodology relating to current youth ministry, I definitely recommend it for all those wanting a trustworthy source for research and engagement.
I believe the book is a helpful aid when looking for current data and research findings on our youth, but the book is certainly not a "how to" guide for youth ministry and Christian life formation. It's meant to be a survey over the various issues faced by current teens and the book definitely succeeds at that time and again with the numerous problems it discusses, from sex and drugs to entertainment mediums and peer relationships.
This book is a good guide for any youth pastor or volunteer wanting an update on current youth culture from a reliable and respected source in evangelical Christian youth ministry. Though the book is more of an informative survey than a helpful methodology relating to current youth ministry, I definitely recommend it for all those wanting a trustworthy source for research and engagement.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By C. Wynne
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Mueller understands culture. Along with his passion to help youth, he delivers this necessary tool for any youth worker.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book!
Bought this book for a graduate class and haven't read it yet. But it's the professors choice so it must be good!!!!
Published 9 months ago by killer-Bee
5.0 out of 5 stars
Reading on today's Youth Culture
Very comprehensive and helpful. Lots of good ideas, sort of like a manual to select concepts from -- to address relevant issues the youth worker/parent is dealing with at the time... Read more
Published on October 11, 2010 by Glad
5.0 out of 5 stars
Youth Culture 101: Vital
Title: Youth Ministry 101 by Walt Mueller
Pages: 480
Time spent on the "to read" shelf: I started reading it right away, but I did not finish it until almost... Read more
Pages: 480
Time spent on the "to read" shelf: I started reading it right away, but I did not finish it until almost... Read more
Published on February 15, 2010 by Patrick J. Jones
2.0 out of 5 stars
Overwritten, Overrated, and Outdated
Muller's heart is in the right place, unfortunately this book contains just as much wrong information, or perhaps even more incorrect information, than good useful information. Read more
Published on March 6, 2009 by Christopher Mclain
