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  • American Evangelicalism

    Embattled and Thriving

    by Christian Smith, Michael Emerson, Sally Gallagher, Paul Kennedy, David Sikkink ...
    "An excellent study of evangelicalism" from the award-winning sociologist and author of Souls in Transition and Soul Searching ( Library Journal).Evangelicalism is one of the strongest religious traditions in America today; twenty 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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Scientist and the Psychic

    A Son's Exploration of His Mother's Gift

    by Christian Smith ...
    Weaving together the story of his fractured relationship to his mother with research into her paranormal abilities, Dr. Christian Smith has created, in The Scientist and the Psychic, a captivating, one-of-a-kind memoir of belief, skepticism and familial love.Christian Smith realized his mother was different in the autumn of 1977 when he was eight years old. Before then, he'd witnessed séances at ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Why Religion Went Obsolete

    The Demise of Traditional Faith in America

    by Christian Smith ...
    Is traditional American religion doomed? Traditional religion in the United States has suffered huge losses in recent decades. The number of Americans identifying as "not religious" has increased remarkably. Religious affiliation, service attendance, and belief in God have declined. More and more people claim to be "spiritual but not religious." Religious organizations have been reeling from ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Bible Made Impossible, The

    Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture

    by Christian Smith ...
    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 approach is misguided and unable to live up to its own claims. If evangelical biblicism worked as ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • To Flourish or Destruct

    A Personalist Theory of Human Goods, Motivations, Failure, and Evil

    by Christian Smith ...
    A study of what motivates humans and the activity that gives rise to human social life and social structures.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 ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Handing Down the Faith

    How Parents Pass Their Religion on to the Next Generation

    by Christian Smith, Amy Adamczyk ...
    A new examination of how and why American religious parents seek to pass on religion to their children The most important influence shaping the religious and spiritual lives of children, youth, and teenagers is their parents. A myriad of studies show that the parents of American youth play the leading role in shaping the character of their religious and spiritual lives, even well after they leave ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Moral, Believing Animals

    Human Personhood and Culture

    by Christian Smith ...
    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 questions in sociological, cultural, and religious theory. Smith suggests that human beings ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • The Paradox of Generosity

    Giving We Receive, Grasping We Lose

    by Christian Smith, Hilary Davidson ...
    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 of and demonstrate generosity. Focusing not only on financial giving but on the many diverse ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

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    Why Religion Went Obsolete

    The Demise of Traditional Faith in America

    by Christian Smith ...
    Narrated by Chris Sorensen ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 53 min

    Is traditional American religion doomed?Traditional religion in the United States has suffered huge losses in recent decades. The number of Americans identifying as "not religious" has increased remarkably. Religious affiliation, service attendance, and belief in God have declined. More and more people claim to be "spiritual but not religious." Religious organizations have been reeling from ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Atheist Overreach

    What Atheism Can't Deliver

    by Christian Smith ...
    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 disproves the existence of God; and that there is nothing innately religious about human beings. In ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Divided by Faith

    Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America, Second Edition

    by Michael O. Emerson, Christian Smith ...
    First published in 2000, Divided by Faith has become a landmark book for understanding race and religion in the United States. Drawing on a nationwide telephone survey of two thousand people and an additional two hundred face-to-face interviews, it probes the grassroots of white evangelical America. A quarter of a century on from the first edition, Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith find that ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Souls in Transition:The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults

    The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults

    by Christian Smith, Patricia Snell ...
    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 it tells the definitive story of the religious and spiritual lives of emerging adults, ages 18 to 24 ... Read more

    $37.79 USD