Christian Smith: 34 books
Lost in Transition
The Dark Side of Emerging Adulthood
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Life for emerging adults is vastly different today than it was for their counterparts even a generation ago. Young people are waiting longer to marry, to have children, and to choose a career direction. As a result, they enjoy more freedom, opportunities, and personal growth than ever before. But...
Moral, Believing Animals
Human Personhood and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2003
What kind of animals are human beings? And how do our visions of the human shape our theories of social action and institutions? In Moral, Believing Animals, Christian Smith advances a creative theory of human persons and culture that offers innovative, challenging answers to these and other fundamental...
To Flourish or Destruct
A Personalist Theory of Human Goods, Motivations, Failure, and Evil
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
In his 2010 book What Is a Person?, Christian Smith argued that sociology had for too long neglected this fundamental question. Prevailing social theories, he wrote, do not adequately “capture our deep subjective experience as persons, crucial dimensions of the richness of our own lived lives, what...
The Paradox of Generosity
Giving We Receive, Grasping We Lose
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Determining why, when, and to whom people feel compelled to be generous affords invaluable insight into positive and problematic ways of life. Organ donation, volunteering, and the funding of charities can all be illuminated by sociological and psychological perspectives on how American adults conceive...
Religion
What It Is, How It Works, and Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
A groundbreaking new theory of religion
Religion remains an important influence in the world today, yet the social sciences are still not adequately equipped to understand and explain it. This book builds on recent developments in science, theory, and philosophy to advance an innovative theory...
Bible Made Impossible, The
Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Biblicism, an approach to the Bible common among some American evangelicals, emphasizes together the Bible's exclusive authority, infallibility, clarity, self-sufficiency, internal consistency, self-evident meaning, and universal applicability. Acclaimed sociologist Christian Smith argues that this...
Souls in Transition:The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults
The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2009
How important is religion for young people in America today? What are the major influences on their developing spiritual lives? How do their religious beliefs and practices change as young people enter into adulthood? Christian Smith's Souls in Transition explores these questions and many others as...
Young Catholic America
Emerging Adults In, Out of, and Gone from the Church
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Best Review at the Catholic Press Association Convention Studies of young American Catholics over the last three decades suggest a growing crisis in the Catholic Church: compared to their elders, young Catholics are looking to the Church less as they form their identities, and fewer of them can even...
Divided by Faith
Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2000
Through a nationwide telephone survey of 2,000 people and an additional 200 face-to-face interviews, Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith probed the grassroots of white evangelical America. They found that despite recent efforts by the movement's leaders to address the problem of racial discrimination,...
by Christian Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Counter to popular perceptions, contemporary American sociology is and promotes a profoundly sacred project at heart. Sociology today is in fact animated by sacred impulses, driven by sacred commitments, and serves a sacred project. Sociology appears on the surface to be a secular, scientific enterprise--its...
Atheist Overreach
What Atheism Can't Deliver
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2018
In recent years atheism has become ever more visible, acceptable, and influential. Atheist apologists have become increasingly vociferous and confident in their claims: that a morality requiring benevolence towards all and universal human rights need not be grounded in religion; that modern science...
Soul Searching : The Religious And Spiritual Lives Of American Teenagers
The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2005
In innumerable discussions and activities dedicated to better understanding and helping teenagers one aspect of teenage life is curiously overlooked. Very few such efforts pay serious attention to the role of religion and spirituality in the lives of American adolescents. But many teenagers are very...
by Christian Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
American evangelicalism has recently experienced a new openness to Roman Catholicism, and many evangelicals, both famous and ordinary, have joined the Catholic Church or are considering the possibility. This book helps evangelicals who are exploring Catholicism to sort out the kind of concerns that...
American Evangelicalism
Embattled and Thriving
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Evangelicalism is one of the strongest religious traditions in America today; 20 million Americans identify themselves with the evangelical movement. Given the modern pluralistic world we live in, why is evangelicalism so popular?
Based on a national telephone survey and more than three hundred...