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Kenda Creasy Dean
Associate Professor of Youth, Church, and Culture
Department of Practical Theology
105 Tennent Hall
Phone: 609.497.7910
Fax: 609.279.9014
Email: kenda.dean@ptsem.edu |
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| Profile |
| Kenda Creasy Dean is associate professor of youth, church, and culture. An ordained United Methodist minister, she also serves as program mentor for the Timothy Scholars program. She holds a master of arts degree in speech communication from Miami University, a master of divinity degree from Wesley Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary. She specializes in Christian formation, pedagogy, and practical theology, focusing on the spiritual formation of adolescents in postmodern culture. |
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| Major Publications |
The Godbearing Life: The Art of Soul-Tending for Youth Ministry (Upper Room, 1998)
Starting Right: Thinking Theologically about Youth Ministry (Youth Specialties Academic/Zondervan, 2001)
Practicing Passion: Youth and the Quest for a Passionate Church (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2004)
Youth, Religion, and Globalization, New Research in Practical Theology, eds. Richard R. Osmer and Kenda Creasy Dean (Zurich: LIT Verlag GmbH Co., 2007)
Youth and the Church of “Benign Whatever-ism”: What the Faith of American Teenagers Means for the American Church (Oxford University Press, 2008)
Oh My God: A Youth Ministry Handbook (Abingdon Press)
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