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Almost Christian
Kenda Creasy Dean
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Description for Almost Christian
Hardcover. Num Pages: 264 pages, 15 illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAM; HRCC9; JFSP2; JFSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 23. Weight in Grams: 526.
Based on the National Study of Youth and Religion--the same invaluable data as its predecessor, Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers--Kenda Creasy Dean's compelling new book, Almost Christian, investigates why American teenagers are at once so positive about Christianity and at the same time so apathetic about genuine religious practice. In Soul Searching, Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton found that American teenagers have embraced a "Moralistic Therapeutic Deism"--a hodgepodge of banal, self-serving, feel-good beliefs that bears little resemblance to traditional Christianity. But far from faulting teens, Dean places the blame for this ... Read more
Based on the National Study of Youth and Religion--the same invaluable data as its predecessor, Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers--Kenda Creasy Dean's compelling new book, Almost Christian, investigates why American teenagers are at once so positive about Christianity and at the same time so apathetic about genuine religious practice. In Soul Searching, Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton found that American teenagers have embraced a "Moralistic Therapeutic Deism"--a hodgepodge of banal, self-serving, feel-good beliefs that bears little resemblance to traditional Christianity. But far from faulting teens, Dean places the blame for this ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
266
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195314847
SKU
V9780195314847
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About Kenda Creasy Dean
Kenda Creasy Dean is Associate Professor, Youth, Church, and Culture, at Princeton Theological Seminary. She worked on the National Study of Youth and Religion and is the author of several books, including The Godbearing Life: The Art of Soul Tending in Youth Ministry and Practicing Passion: Youth and the Quest for a Passionate Church.
Reviews for Almost Christian
...offers pragmatic and insightful responses.
Joanne Griffiths, Theology
In this erudite, passionate, beautifully written, and often moving book, Kenda Creasy Dean presents a compelling depiction of the practice of Christianity (and of religion in general) among contemporary American youth. ... Dean's important and stimulating book brings light into the dark areas linking religious beliefs and the study of ... Read more
Joanne Griffiths, Theology
In this erudite, passionate, beautifully written, and often moving book, Kenda Creasy Dean presents a compelling depiction of the practice of Christianity (and of religion in general) among contemporary American youth. ... Dean's important and stimulating book brings light into the dark areas linking religious beliefs and the study of ... Read more