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Hipster Christianity: When Church And Cool Collide (2010)

by Brett McCracken(Favorite Author)

3.43 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0801072220 (ISBN13: 9780801072222)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Baker Books

review 1: Opening chapter 10 Brett writes:"Of all my church visits during the research for this book, the churches that frustrated me the most - the ones that, to be honest, I had a hard time sitting through - were those that I call "wannabe" hip churches... These churches were the worst at disguising their desperate hope to be hip. They clearly endeavored to be palatable to the cool kids. But mostly they just looked sad and desperate, uncomfortable in their own skin and too hip for their own good."How ironic. This is exactly the same feeling that I got while reading your book. Perhaps it is because the subject matter is an exercise in futility. As you say, right from the front, cool is an ever shifting, ever changing thing that hipsters ride the front wave of. It is impossible to d... moreefine what hip is, because as soon as it is defined, it has changed. Then you spend the next 150 or so pages trying to define what a "Christian hipster" says and does and thinks and wears and listens to and reads and likes and on and on ad nauseum. I had high hopes for this book but was severely disappointed. The only reason I even gave it a second star is because it did point me towards some great music and literature I had not yet discovered.
review 2: It starts slow, but give this book a chance. This is a well-documented and researched take on the hipster movement and its influence on Christianity. Who knew hipsterdom could be so well defined? I really appreciated the author's thoughts on what happens when the church tries too hard to be cool... and that if we are authentic in our faith, people will see and be attracted to that rather than the latest branding of Jesus or a church. Good for Christian hipsters, wannabe hipsters, those who don't get it, and church leaders trying to come to grips with this generation. less

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