This book offers a theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich study of the intersections of contemporary Christianity and youth culture focusing on evangelical engagements with punk hip hop surfing and skateboarding. Ibrahim Abraham draws on interviews and fieldwork with dozens of musicians and sports enthusiasts in the USA UK Australia and South Africa and the analysis of evangelical subcultural media including music film and extreme sports Bibles.Evangelical Youth Culture Alternative Music and Extreme Sports Subcultures makes innovative use of multiple theories of youth cultures and subcultures from sociology and cultural studies and introduces the leisure perspective to the study of religion youth and popular culture. Engaging with the experiences of Pentecostal punks surfing missionaries township rappers and skateboarding youth pastors this book makes an original contribution to the sociology of religion youth studies and the study of religion and popular culture.