Books written by Christian Smith
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Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America
In Divided by Faith, Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith probe the grassroots of white evangelical America, through a nationwide telephone survey of 2,000 people, along with 200 face-to-face interviews.
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The Octopus and My Entanglement with It
After reading this book the historical time line and circumstances surrounding the JFK assassinations should make enough sense that the reader should come to my very own conclusion as for who murdered him.
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Passing the Plate: Why American Christians Don't Give Away More Money
1986, Relative Deprivation and Social Comparison, Mahwah, NJ:Lawrence Erlbaum Associates; John MastersandWilliam Smith(eds.), 1987, Social Comparison,Social Justice,and Relative Deprivation, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates; ...
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Handing Down the Faith: How Parents Pass Their Religion on to the Next Generation
" To address that gap, this book reports the findings of a new national study of religious parents in the United States.
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Religious Parenting: Transmitting Faith and Values in Contemporary America
Taking an extensive look into questions of religious practice and childrearing, Religious Parenting uncovers parents’ real-life challenges while breaking innovative theoretical ground.
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Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers
Or are they abandoning traditional religious institutions in search of a new, more authentic "spirituality"? This book attempts to answer these and related questions as definitively as possible.
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What Is a Person?: Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good from the Person Up
In this ambitious book, Smith presents a new model for social theory that does justice to the best of our humanistic visions of people, life, and society.
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The Secular Revolution: Power, Interests, and Conflict in the Secularization of American Public Life
This collection presents a radical rethinking of the secularization of American public life.
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Religious Parenting: Transmitting Faith and Values in Contemporary America
The purpose and nature of life -- Religion's value and truth -- Children, parenting, and family -- The whys and hows of religious transmission -- Theorizing cultural models -- Conclusion.
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Latin American Religion in Motion
Latin America is undergoing a period of intense religious transformation and upheaval. This book analyzes some of the more important new discoveries about religious movements in the region.
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Christian America?: What Evangelicals Really Want
A comprehensive analysis of the Protestant evangelical movement in contemporary America, drawing from a three-year national study, offers insights into the surprisingly diverse goals and values of the men and women who comprise this ...
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Moral, Believing Animals: Human Personhood and Culture
In this insightful book you will discover: how to determine the right time to buy why buying a property every year is the wrong thing to do why some people are better off renting than buying why selling should be a last resort why other ...
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Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers
Or are they abandoning traditional religious institutions in search of a new, more authentic "spirituality"? This book attempts to answer these and related questions as definitively as possible.
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Resisting Reagan: The U.S. Central America Peace Movement
A comprehensive analysis of the U.S. Central America peace movement, Resisting Reagan explains why more than one hundred thousand U.S. citizens marched in the streets, illegally housed refugees, traveled to Central American war zones, ...
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Religion: What It Is, How It Works, and Why It Matters
This book advances an innovative theory of religion that goes beyond the problematic theoretical paradigms of the past.
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Lost in Transition: The Dark Side of Emerging Adulthood
In Lost in Transition, Christian Smith and his collaborators draw on 230 in-depth interviews with a broad cross-section of emerging adults (ages 18-23) to investigate the difficulties young people face today, the underlying causes of those ...
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The Scientist and the Psychic: A Son's Exploration of His Mother's Gift
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 ...
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Religion: What It Is, How It Works, and Why It Matters
Saving Souls, Serving Society. New York: Oxford University Press; Robert Wuthnow. 2004. Saving America? Princeton: Princeton University Press; but see Omar McRoberts. 2005. Streets of Glory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 44.
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The Paradox of Generosity: Giving We Receive, Grasping We Lose
Smith and Davidson also show, however, that to achieve a better life a person must practice generosity regularly - random acts of kindness are not enough.Offering a wide range of vividly illustrative case studies, this volume will be a ...
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Latin American Religion in Motion
Latin America is undergoing a period of intense religious transformation and upheaval. This book analyzes some of the more important new discoveries about religious movements in the region.