Upon a firm base of empirical evidence, these essays also address many theoretical issues arising in the study of social movements and disruptive politics.
In this book, Christian Smith explains how and why the liberation theology movement emerged and succeeded when and where it did.
Rather, they expect to do this work themselves, viewing their children as ongoing "projects".
The Middle-class Dream Alive and Well Near the end of the interviews, we interviewers asked emerging adults what they ... dream looked, nearly all described it as attaining material security and happy family life in a comfortable home.
So, in this way, the puzzlers discover that many of the pieces that make one portrait can be rearranged ... Partiality to different puzzle portraits tends to run in families, as parents pass on the making of their own favorite pictures ...
Soul Searching reveals the complexity of contemporary teenage religious life, showing that religion is widely practiced and positively valued by teens, but also de-prioritized and very poorly understood by them, yet significant nonetheless ...
In his 2010 book What Is a Person?, Christian Smith argued that sociology had for too long neglected this fundamental question.
Offering a wide range of vividly illustrative case studies, this volume will be a crucial resource for anyone seeking to understand the true impact and meaning of generosity.
That nicely positions them to be susceptible to recruitment into sociology's (to some students, at least) compelling sacredspiritualmoralpoliticalideological project that the textbook promotes. In sum, sociology's value to undergraduate ...
This text shows counter-intuitively, that the secular enterprise that everyday sociology appears to be pursuing is actually not what is really going on at sociology's deepest level.
This book helps evangelicals who are exploring Catholicism to sort out the kind of concerns that typically come up in discerning whether to enter into the full communion of the Catholic Church.
Smith's book puts a stake in the ground, in defense of a view of the human that is genuinely humanistic in the traditional sense and capable of sustaining with intellectual coherence things like modern human rights and universal benevolence ...
This book uses the particular case of the University of Notre Dame to raise larger issues, to make substantive proposals, and thus to contribute to a national conversation affecting all Catholic universities and colleges in the United ...
Unofficial Reflections from the University of Notre Dame Christian Smith, John C. Cavadini. I have focused in this book especially on the implications of trying to build ... Catholic University John 94 Building Catholic Higher Education.
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.
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 ...
... religious services at least once a week , whose parents reported that their religious faith was extremely important , and who talked daily in their home about religious matters were most likely to have a stable high religious trajectory ...
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...
This collection presents a radical rethinking of the secularization of American public life.
Offering a wide range of vividly illustrative case studies, this volume will be a crucial resource for anyone seeking to understand the true impact and meaning of generosity.