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  • Why Religion Went Obsolete

    The Demise of Traditional Faith in America

    by 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 ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • To Flourish or Destruct

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

    by 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 ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Scientist and the Psychic

    A Son's Exploration of His Mother's Gift

    by 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 ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Building Catholic Higher Education

    Unofficial Reflections from the University of Notre Dame

    by Christian Smith, John C. Cavadini ...
    American Catholic universities and colleges are wrestling today with how to develop in ways that faithfully serve their mission in Catholic higher education without either secularizing or becoming sectarian. Major challenges are faced when trying to simultaneously build and sustain excellence in undergraduate teaching, strengthen faculty research and publishing, and deepen the authentically ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Evangelicalism

    Embattled and Thriving

    by 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 ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bible Made Impossible, The

    Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture

    by 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 ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Handing Down the Faith

    How Parents Pass Their Religion on to the Next Generation

    by Christian Smith, Amy Adamczyk ...
    A new examination of how and why American religious parents seek to pass on religion to their children The most important influence shaping the religious and spiritual lives of children, youth, and teenagers is their parents. A myriad of studies show that the parents of American youth play the leading role in shaping the character of their religious and spiritual lives, even well after they leave ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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

    by 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 ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Souls in Transition:The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults

    The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults

    by Christian Smith, Patricia Snell ...
    How important is religion for young people in America today? What are the major influences on their developing spiritual lives? How do their religious beliefs and practices change as young people enter into adulthood? Christian Smith's Souls in Transition explores these questions and many others as it tells the definitive story of the religious and spiritual lives of emerging adults, ages 18 to 24 ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

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    Redhead Reggie: Reggie's Grand Slam

    by Tony R. Smith ...
    Narrated by Christian Neale ...

    Unabridged

    5 min

    Join Reggie, a redheaded kid with a passion for baseball. He is determined to be the best player on his little league team. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Moral, Believing Animals

    Human Personhood and Culture

    by 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 ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD

  • Atheist Overreach

    What Atheism Can't Deliver

    by 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 ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD