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  • To Flourish or Destruct

    A Personalist Theory of Human Goods, Motivations, Failure, and Evil

    de Christian Smith ...
    A study of what motivates humans and the activity that gives rise to human social life and social structures.In his 2010 book What Is a Person?, Christian Smith argued that sociology had for too long neglected this fundamental question. Prevailing social theories, he wrote, do not adequately "capture our deep subjective experience as persons, crucial dimensions of the richness of our own lived ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Scientist and the Psychic

    A Son's Exploration of His Mother's Gift

    de Christian Smith ...
    Weaving together the story of his fractured relationship to his mother with research into her paranormal abilities, Dr. Christian Smith has created, in The Scientist and the Psychic, a captivating, one-of-a-kind memoir of belief, skepticism and familial love.Christian Smith realized his mother was different in the autumn of 1977 when he was eight years old. Before then, he'd witnessed séances at ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Why Religion Went Obsolete

    The Demise of Traditional Faith in America

    de Christian Smith ...
    Is traditional American religion doomed? Traditional religion in the United States has suffered huge losses in recent decades. The number of Americans identifying as "not religious" has increased remarkably. Religious affiliation, service attendance, and belief in God have declined. More and more people claim to be "spiritual but not religious." Religious organizations have been reeling from ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • American Evangelicalism

    Embattled and Thriving

    de Christian Smith, Michael Emerson, Sally Gallagher, Paul Kennedy, David Sikkink ...
    "An excellent study of evangelicalism" from the award-winning sociologist and author of Souls in Transition and Soul Searching ( Library Journal).Evangelicalism is one of the strongest religious traditions in America today; twenty million Americans identify themselves with the evangelical movement. Given the modern pluralistic world we live in, why is evangelicalism so popular?Based on a national ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • How to Go from Being a Good Evangelical to a Committed Catholic in Ninety-Five Difficult Steps

    de Christian Smith ...
    American evangelicalism has recently experienced a new openness to Roman Catholicism, and many evangelicals, both famous and ordinary, have joined the Catholic Church or are considering the possibility. This book helps evangelicals who are exploring Catholicism to sort out the kind of concerns that typically come up in discerning whether to enter into the full communion of the Catholic Church. In ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Bible Made Impossible, The

    Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture

    de Christian Smith ...
    Biblicism, an approach to the Bible common among some American evangelicals, emphasizes together the Bible's exclusive authority, infallibility, clarity, self-sufficiency, internal consistency, self-evident meaning, and universal applicability. Acclaimed sociologist Christian Smith argues that this approach is misguided and unable to live up to its own claims. If evangelical biblicism worked as ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Religion

    What It Is, How It Works, and Why It Matters

    de Christian Smith ...
    A groundbreaking new theory of religionReligion remains an important influence in the world today, yet the social sciences are still not adequately equipped to understand and explain it. This book builds on recent developments in science, theory, and philosophy to advance an innovative theory of religion that goes beyond the problematic theoretical paradigms of the past.Drawing on the philosophy ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD

  • Audiolibro

    The Scientist and the Psychic

    A Son's Exploration of His Mother's Gift

    de Christian Smith ...
    Narrado por Douglas E. Hughes ...

    Completo

    9 hora 17 minutos

    Weaving together the story of his fractured relationship to his mother with research into her paranormal abilities, Dr. Christian Smith has created, in The Scientist and the Psychic, a captivating, one-of-a-kind memoir of belief, skepticism and familial love.Christian Smith realized his mother was different in the autumn of 1977 when he was eight years old. Before then, he'd witnessed séances at ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

  • Atheist Overreach

    What Atheism Can't Deliver

    de Christian Smith ...
    In recent years atheism has become ever more visible, acceptable, and influential. Atheist apologists have become increasingly vociferous and confident in their claims: that a morality requiring benevolence towards all and universal human rights need not be grounded in religion; that modern science disproves the existence of God; and that there is nothing innately religious about human beings. In ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Moral, Believing Animals

    Human Personhood and Culture

    de Christian Smith ...
    What kind of animals are human beings? And how do our visions of the human shape our theories of social action and institutions? In Moral, Believing Animals, Christian Smith advances a creative theory of human persons and culture that offers innovative, challenging answers to these and other fundamental questions in sociological, cultural, and religious theory. Smith suggests that human beings ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • The Sacred Project of American Sociology

    de Christian Smith ...
    Counter to popular perceptions, contemporary American sociology is and promotes a profoundly sacred project at heart. Sociology today is in fact animated by sacred impulses, driven by sacred commitments, and serves a sacred project. Sociology appears on the surface to be a secular, scientific enterprise--its founding fathers were mostly atheists. Its basic operating premises are secular and ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

  • Soul Searching

    The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers

    de Christian Smith, Melina Lundquist Denton ...
    In innumerable discussions and activities dedicated to better understanding and helping teenagers, one aspect of teenage life is curiously overlooked. Very few such efforts pay serious attention to the role of religion and spirituality in the lives of American adolescents. But many teenagers are very involved in religion. Surveys reveal that 35% attend religious services weekly and another 15% ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD