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Christian Smith

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Christian Smith is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Society at the University of Notre Dame. Smith's research focuses primarily on religion in modernity, adolescents, American evangelicalism, and culture.

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Average rating: 3.89 · 553 ratings · 119 reviews · 20 distinct works

	The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture 3.94 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers by Christian Smith, Melinda Lundquist Denton 3.78 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Souls in Transition: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults by Christian Smith, Patricia Snell 3.94 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Lost in Transition: The Dark Side of Emerging Adulthood by Christian Smith, Kari Christoffersen, Patricia Snell Herzog 3.93 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Moral, Believing Animals: Human Personhood and Culture 4.05 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	My rating:
	American Evangelicalism: Embattled and Thriving 3.56 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Secular Revolution: Power, Interests, and Conflict in the Secularization of American Public Life 3.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Passing the Plate: Why American Christians Don't Give Away More Money 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Resisting Reagan: The U.S. Central America Peace Movement 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	My rating:
	How to Go from Being a Good Evangelical to a Committed Catholic in Ninety-Five Difficult Steps 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2011	My rating:

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“Capitalism is not merely a system for the efficient production and distribution of goods and services; it also incarnates and promotes a particular moral order, an institutionalized normative worldview comprising and fostering particular assumptions, narratives, commitments, beliefs, values, and goals.”
― Christian Smith, Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers

tags: capitalism , worldviews

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“Human social life, I suggest, is the magma that erupts and builds up, so to speak, at the fault lines where natural human capacities meet and grind against and over natural human limitations…. This meeting of powers and limitations produces a creative, dynamic tension and energy that generates and fuels the making of human social life and social structures…. It is real human persons living through the tensions of natural existential contradictions who construct patterned social meanings, interactions, institutions, and structures.”
― Christian Smith, What Is a Person?: Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good from the Person Up

tags: existentialism , human-nature , humanism , identity , personalism , personhood , philosophy , robots