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Christian Smith
Christian Smith is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Society, and the Center for Social Research at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of many books, including What is a Person?: Rethinking Humanity, Social Life,... show more

Christian Smith is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Society, and the Center for Social Research at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of many books, including What is a Person?: Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good from the Person Up (Chicago 201); Passing the Plate: Why American Christians Do Not Give Away More Money (OUP 2008); Soul Searching: the Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers (OUP 2005), Winner of the 2005 "Distinguished Book Award" from Christianity Today; and Moral, Believing Animals: Human Personhood and Culture (OUP 2003).
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Religion & Spirituality, Social Sciences
Christian Smith's Books
The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture - Christian Smith Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America - Michael O. Emerson, Christian Smith American Evangelicalism: Embattled and Thriving - Christian Smith The Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool: Authorised Cathedral Guide - Brian Howell, Christian Smith Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America - Christian Smith, Michael O. Emerson The Emergence of Liberation Theology: Radical Religion and Social Movement Theory - Christian Smith Disruptive Religion: The Force of Faith in Social Movement Activism - Christian Smith What Is a Person?: Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good from the Person Up - Christian Smith Lost in Transition: The Dark Side of Emerging Adulthood - Christian Smith, Kari Christoffersen, Hilary Davidson, Patricia Snell Herzog Young Catholic America: Emerging Adults In, Out Of, and Gone from the Church - Christian Smith, Kyle Longest, Jonathan Hill, Kari Christoffersen Going To The Root: Nine Proposals For Radical Church Renewal - Christian Smith Souls in Transition: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults - Christian Smith, Patricia Snell How to Go from Being a Good Evangelical to a Committed Catholic in Ninety-Five Difficult Steps: - Christian Smith The Octopus and My Entanglement with It ... The Octopus and My Entanglement with It - Christian Smith Moral, Believing Animals: Human Personhood and Culture - Christian Smith Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers - Christian Smith, Melinda Lundquist Denton
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What Is a Person?: Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good from the Person Up - Christian Smith
Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America - Michael O. Emerson, Christian Smith
The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture - Christian Smith
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Tower of Iron Will
Tower of Iron Will rated it 13 years ago
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Smith shows that while using terms like "Bible believing" may be a useful sociological tool for Christians as a sort of cultural shibboleth, the term is not particularly meaningful because the Bible is so rich and diverse that it is open to pervasive interpretive pluralism. Over the centuries devot...
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Inklings
Inklings rated it 15 years ago
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This book was eye opening to the problems surrounding race relations and the evangelical churches in the US. In this way the book was excellent and is a helpful tool...yet it was a downer, offering little or no solutions on how to solve the problem. My frame of mind reading this book was often like ...
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