MISSIONAL SUBJECTIVITY: NEOLIBERAL HUMAN CAPITAL AND CHRISTIAN CAMPUS MINISTRIES

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Caro, L. (2017). MISSIONAL SUBJECTIVITY: NEOLIBERAL HUMAN CAPITAL AND CHRISTIAN CAMPUS MINISTRIES. Unc Charlotte Electronic Theses And Dissertations.
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Abstract

Since 2000, the anthropology of Christianity significantly grew in the scholarly literature. However, there remains this odd gap in examining Christians and their activities in college campuses. This paper attempts to fill this gap by doing ethnographic research on Christian campus ministries in a public university in the South. I argue that the ministries’ leadership appropriate the neoliberal concept of "human capital" in their discourse and seeks to instill in college students what I call a "missional subjectivity," which is a self that believes it is their personal individual responsibility to produce disciples for Christ to help fulfill the Great Commission and proliferate the world with the Gospel. These campus ministries also provide students with several tracts, brochures, websites, phone applications, and books that I analyze as "technologies of the self" to modify students into more "effective and efficient" disciple-makers by improving their evangelism and discipleship skills.

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Author

Caro, Lennin

Title

MISSIONAL SUBJECTIVITY: NEOLIBERAL HUMAN CAPITAL AND CHRISTIAN CAMPUS MINISTRIES

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1 online resource (59 pages) : PDF

Date

2017

Degree Granting Institution

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Abstract

Since 2000, the anthropology of Christianity significantly grew in the scholarly literature. However, there remains this odd gap in examining Christians and their activities in college campuses. This paper attempts to fill this gap by doing ethnographic research on Christian campus ministries in a public university in the South. I argue that the ministries’ leadership appropriate the neoliberal concept of "human capital" in their discourse and seeks to instill in college students what I call a "missional subjectivity," which is a self that believes it is their personal individual responsibility to produce disciples for Christ to help fulfill the Great Commission and proliferate the world with the Gospel. These campus ministries also provide students with several tracts, brochures, websites, phone applications, and books that I analyze as "technologies of the self" to modify students into more "effective and efficient" disciple-makers by improving their evangelism and discipleship skills.

Genre

masters theses

Subjects--Topics

Religion
Economics

Degree

M.A.

Keywords

Christianity
Evangelicalism
Neoliberalism
Subjectivity
University

Subject Area

Anthropology

Advisor(s)

Starrett, Gregory

Committee Members

Katz, Peta
Hoenes, Eric

Degree Note

Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2017.

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Caro_uncc_0694N_11605

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