Should Eastern Christian Parishes Have "Youth Ministries"?

Eerdmans, which has done so much to make Russian Orthodox thinkers such as Sergius Bulgakov accessible to anglophone audiences, just sent me their most recent catalogue. In it is a book with a striking title raising an important question for those Eastern Christian parishes and dioceses fretting over their lack of "youth ministry" programs and comparing themselves unfavorably to Catholic and Protestant parishes and programs: Thomas E. Bergler, The Juvenilization of American Christianity (Eerdmans, 2012), 276pp.

About this book the publisher tells us:

Pop worship music. Falling in love with Jesus. Mission trips. Wearing jeans and T-shirts to church. Spiritual searching and church hopping. Faith-based political activism. Seeker-sensitive outreach. These now-commonplace elements of American church life all began as innovative ways to reach young people, yet they have gradually become accepted as important parts of a spiritual ideal for all ages. What on earth has happened? 
In The Juvenilization of American Christianity Thomas Bergler traces the way in which, over seventy-five years, youth ministries have breathed new vitality into four major American church traditions — African American, Evangelical, Mainline Protestant, and Roman Catholic. Bergler shows too how this “juvenilization” of churches has led to widespread spiritual immaturity, consumerism, and self-centeredness, popularizing a feel-good faith with neither intergenerational community nor theological literacy. Bergler’s critique further offers constructive suggestions for taming juvenilization.