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Book Response: Soul Searching

February 4, 2016 by Tom Grosh IV No Comments

Since Soul Searching’s publication, I have recommended that parents, church leadership teams and youth/campus ministers prayerfully read, consider, and develop structural adjustments taking into consideration “Summary Interpretation: Moralistic Therapeutic Deism” (161-71) and the “Concluding Unscientific Postscript: Observations and Implications of NSYR (National Study of Youth and Religion) Findings for Religious Communities and Youth Workers” (259-271).

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Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Christ and the Academy, Ministry to Emerging Generations Tagged With: adolescence, calling, christian smith, Gordon-Conwell, higher education, Melinda Lundquist Denton, ministry to emerging generations, moralistic therapeutic deism, Soul Searching

Book Review: Souls in Transition

October 8, 2013 by Bob Trube No Comments

Souls in Transition: The Religious & Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults (Oxford University Press. 2009) is chock-full of insights and all the graphs and tables you could ask for. Some of the most significant to me were the commentary on emerging adult culture — which the authors saw as governed by an intuitional morality — one just […]

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Book Review: Soul Searching

October 1, 2013 by Bob Trube 2 Comments

Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers by Christian Smith (now William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Society, University of Notre Dame) with Melinda Lundquist Denton (now Assistant Professor, College of Business and Behavioral Science, University of Clemson) is an important study of […]

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