Faith with Benefits
Hookup Culture on Catholic Campuses
Jason King
Reviews and Awards
"With the accessible and disarming tone of an advice column, this book is a must-read for students, parents, student counselors, teachers, and researchers who are trying to enrich their understandings of campus lifestyles." -- Jeremee D. Nute, The University of Alabama, Religious Studies Review
"In the attempt to make hookups relational, King shows that there is a wide spectrum of what constitutes a relationship." -- James F. Keenan, S.J., Boston College, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics (JSCE)
"Jason King has now written a book that helps us understand the various nuances among sexual cultures within Catholic institutions." -- Perry L. Glanzer, Baylor University, Christian Scholar's Review
"[King] provides a great deal of data from his research as well as the insights of the students themselves, and he helpfully takes us deeper into the differing Catholic cultures to give us a feel of their resources and of the strategies their students ingeniously develop. In a word, his research and analysis are credible and very satisfying." -- Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
"Provide[s] us with brilliant insight into the sexual lives of Catholic college students." -- Christian Scholar's Review
"The book will be engaging for undergraduates taking marriage and sexual ethics courses, in part because King's language is readable and the topic very much engages their own interests." -- Horizons
"[S]hould be the go-to book for those involved in undergraduate student life in Catholic higher education."--Sociology of Religion
"[T]his book is probably most appropriate for those interested in understanding campus cultures. In particular, King makes many recommendations for people that work for Catholic colleges and who want to provide students with an alternative to the hookup culture."--Reading Religion
"For those concerned about Catholic universities, Faith with Benefits is essential reading. Jason King provides a complex, sympathetic, but unflinching account of the coercive effects of hook-up culture and the many ways students negotiate it. King is an engaging writer, attentive to the complexities of Catholic subcultures, and well-placed to offer a way forward for the majority of students who seek alternatives to the prevailing norm." --Julie Hanlon Rubio, Professor of Christian Ethics, St. Louis University
"The sexual practices of young Catholics often seem inconsistent with their faith commitments-contradictory in terms of how they articulate the goods of friendship and healthy relationships. In Faith With Benefits, Jason King gives us a framework to start to make sense of it all. He combines social research with theological insight and offers us an illuminating picture of what is happening on Catholic campuses and why." --David M. McCarthy, author of Sex and Love in the Home
"King's book is a necessary addition to hookup literature. Looking specifically at Catholic colleges and universities, he argues there are four hookup cultures, not one. His research suggests a student's religious faith can assist her in generating relationship-forming practices antithetical to stereotypical hookup culture. In short, this is a must read for college educators and administrators, especially those at Catholic institutions, who seek to empower young men and women to pursue healthy personal relationships." --Kari-Shane Davis Zimmerman, Associate Professor of Theology, College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University