Soul Searching: The Religious And Spiritual Lives Of American Teenagers - 9780195384772

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 shaping their lives. More broadly, Soul Searching describes what appears to be a major transformation of faith in the U.S., away from the substance of historical religious traditions and toward a new and quite different faith the authors call "Moralistic Therapeutic Deism." --Publisher.

• | Author: Christian Smith, Melinda Lundquist Denton
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 13, 2009
• | Number of Pages: 368 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0195384776
• | ISBN-13: 9780195384772