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74 produkter
Moral, Believing Animals
Human Personhood and Culture
Häftad, 2009
504 kr
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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 …
Why Religion Went Obsolete
The Demise of Traditional Faith in America
Inbunden, 2025
301 kr
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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 …
Religion
What It Is, How It Works, and Why It Matters
Häftad, 2019
263 kr
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A groundbreaking new theory of religionReligion remains an important influence in the world today, yet the social sciences are still not adequately equipped to understand and explain it. This book advances an innovative theory of religion that goes beyond the problematic theoretical paradigms of …
Back-Pocket God
Religion and Spirituality in the Lives of Emerging Adults
Av Melinda Lundquist Denton, Richard Flory m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
550 kr
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More than a decade ago, a group of researchers began to study the religious and spiritual lives of American teenagers. They tracked these young people over the course of a decade, revisiting them periodically to check in on the state -and future- of religion in America, and reporting on their …
Handing Down the Faith
How Parents Pass Their Religion on to the Next Generation
Av Christian Smith, Amy Adamczyk
Inbunden, 2021
488 kr
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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 …
Handing Down the Faith
How Parents Pass Their Religion on to the Next Generation
Av Amy Adamczyk, Christian Smith
E-bok, 2020
245 kr
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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 …
Handing Down the Faith
How Parents Pass Their Religion on to the Next Generation
Av Amy Adamczyk, Christian Smith
E-bok, 2020
245 kr
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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 …
The Happiness Effect
How Social Media is Driving a Generation to Appear Perfect at Any Cost
Av Donna Freitas, Christian Smith
Inbunden, 2017
303 kr
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Sexting. Cyberbullying. Narcissism. People-and especially the media-are consumed by fears about the effect of social media on young people. We hear constantly about the dangers that lurk online, and about young people's seemingly pathological desire to share anything and everything about themselves …
Atheist Overreach
What Atheism Can't Deliver
E-bok, 2018
135 kr
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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 …
Atheist Overreach
What Atheism Can't Deliver
E-bok, 2018
135 kr
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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 …
Moral, Believing Animals
Human Personhood and Culture
Inbunden, 2003
1133 kr
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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 offers innovative, challenging answers to these and other fundamental questions in sociological, cultural, and religious …
Soul Searching
The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers
Av Christian Smith, Melinda Lundquist Denton
Inbunden, 2005
846 kr
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In most discussions and analyses of American teenage life, one major topic is curiously overlooked--religion. Yet most American teens say that religious faith is important in their lives. What is going on in the religious and spiritual lives of American teenagers? What do they actually believe? …
Passing the Plate
Why American Christians Don't Give Away More Money
Av Christian Smith, Michael O Emerson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
730 kr
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Passing the Plate shows that few American Christians donate generously to religious and charitable causes--a parsimony that seriously undermines the work of churches and ministries. Far from the 10 percent of one's income that tithing requires, American Christians' financial giving typically …
Moral, Believing Animals
Human Personhood and Culture
E-bok, 2003
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
343 kr
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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 …
Souls in Transition
The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults
Av Christian Smith, Patricia Snell
Inbunden, 2009
693 kr
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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 …
Soul Searching
The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers
Av Christian Smith, Melina Lundquist Denton
Häftad, 2009
438 kr
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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 …
Divided by Faith
Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America, Second Edition
Av Michael O. Emerson, Christian Smith
Häftad, 2026
282 kr
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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 …
Why Religion Went Obsolete
The Demise of Traditional Faith in America
E-bok, 2025
367 kr
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Is traditional American religion doomed?Traditional religion in the United States has suffered huge losses in recent decades. The number of Americans identifying as "e;not religious"e; has increased remarkably. Religious affiliation, service attendance, and belief in God have declined. More …
Why Religion Went Obsolete
The Demise of Traditional Faith in America
E-bok, 2025
367 kr
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Is traditional American religion doomed?Traditional religion in the United States has suffered huge losses in recent decades. The number of Americans identifying as "e;not religious"e; has increased remarkably. Religious affiliation, service attendance, and belief in God have declined. More …
Divided by Faith
Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America, Second Edition
Av Michael O. Emerson, Christian Smith
Inbunden, 2025
1901 kr
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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 …
Divided by Faith
Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America, Second Edition
Av Christian Smith, Michael O. Emerson
E-bok, 2025
266 kr
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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 …
Divided by Faith
Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America, Second Edition
Av Christian Smith, Michael O. Emerson
E-bok, 2025
266 kr
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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 …
Occulture
The New Face of American Spirituality
Av Christian Smith, Matthew Coetzee m. fl.
Inbunden, 2027
343 kr
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Far from going secular, America has entered a new era of cultural re-enchantment, in which "occulture"—from energy healing to ghost hunting—has reshaped the spiritual landscape.The last several decades have witnessed a sea change in American culture. Traditional religion has declined significantly. …
Young Catholic America
Emerging Adults In, Out of, and Gone from the Church
Av Christian Smith, Kyle Longest m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
574 kr
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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 explain what it means to be Catholic and why that …
Young Catholic America
Emerging Adults In, Out of, and Gone from the Church
Av Kari Christoffersen, Jonathan Hill m. fl.
E-bok, 2014
440 kr
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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 …
Young Catholic America
Emerging Adults In, Out of, and Gone from the Church
Av Kari Christoffersen, Jonathan Hill m. fl.
E-bok, 2014
440 kr
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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 …
The Sacred Project of American Sociology
Inbunden, 2014
748 kr
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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 …
Sacred Project of American Sociology
E-bok, 2014
514 kr
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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 …
Sacred Project of American Sociology
E-bok, 2014
514 kr
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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 …
The Paradox of Generosity
Giving We Receive, Grasping We Lose
Av Christian Smith, Hilary Davidson
Inbunden, 2014
574 kr
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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 …
