TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dean,Kenda Creasy
TI  - Almost Christian: what the faith of our teenagers is telling the American church 
SN  - 9780199750535
AV  - BV4531.3 .D43 2010eb
U1  - 277.3/0830835 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Teenagers
KW  - Religious life
KW  - United States
KW  - Adolescents
KW  - Vie religieuse
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christianity
KW  - History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - dissertations
KW  - aat
KW  - Academic theses
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Thèses et écrits académiques
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Becoming Christian-ish -- The triumph of the "cult of nice" -- Mormon envy: sociological tools for consequential faith -- Generative faith: faith that bears fruit -- Missional imagination: we are not here for ourselves -- Parents matter most: the art of translation -- Going viral for Jesus: the art of testimony -- Hanging loose: the art of detachment -- Make no small plans: a case for hope
N2  - 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
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