Christian Smith
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American sociologist of religion
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- Bachelors Sociology Government Gordon College
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Christian Stephen Smith is an American sociologist, currently the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame. Smith's research focuses primarily on religion in modernity, adolescents and emerging adults, sociological theory, philosophy of science, the science of generosity, American evangelicalism, and culture. Smith is well known for his contributions to the sociology of religion, particularly his research into adolescent spirituality, as well as for his contributions to sociological theory and his advocacy of critical realism.
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Published Works
- American Evangelicalism: Embattled and Thriving (1998) (716)
- Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America (2000) (611)
- Theorizing Religious Effects Among American Adolescents (2003) (611)
- Souls in Transition: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults (2009) (428)
- Fundamentalism et al: Conservative Protestants in America (1998) (419)
- Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers (2005) (385)
- Mapping American Adolescent Religious Participation (2002) (341)
- ‘To Whom Much Has Been Given...’: Religious Capital and Community Voluntarism Among Churchgoing Protestants (2000) (314)
- Souls in Transition (2009) (291)
- The Emergence of Liberation Theology: Radical Religion and Social Movement Theory (1992) (255)
- Moral, believing animals : human personhood and culture (2003) (247)
- Christian America? What Evangelicals Really Want (2000) (247)
- What Is a Person?: Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good from the Person Up (2010) (242)
- Lost in Transition: The Dark Side of Emerging Adulthood (2011) (230)
- Who Gives to the Poor? The Influence of Religious Tradition and Political Location on the Personal Generosity of Americans Toward the Poor (1998) (211)
- SYMBOLIC TRADITIONALISM AND PRAGMATIC EGALITARIANISM (1999) (200)
- Social Context in the Development of Adolescent Religiosity (2004) (199)
- Rethinking Recruitment to High-Risk/Cost Activism: The Case of Nicaragua Exchange (1999) (185)
- Mapping American Adolescent Subjective Religiosity and Attitudes of Alienation Toward Religion: A Research Report (2003) (171)
- The secular revolution : power, interests, and conflict in the secularization of American public life (2003) (154)
- Resisting Reagan: The U.S. Central American Peace Movement. (1996) (152)
- Religious participation and network closure among American adolescents (2003) (150)
- Selection effects in studies of religious influence (2005) (144)
- American Evangelicalism: Embattled and Thriving. (1999) (136)
- The Sacred Project of American Sociology (2014) (101)
- Equal in Christ, But Not in the World: White Conservative Protestants and Explanations of Black-White Inequality (1999) (100)
- Socioeconomic Inequality in the American Religious System: An Update and Assessment (2005) (93)
- Future Directions in the Sociology of Religion (2008) (91)
- Moral, Believing Animals (2003) (88)
- Voting with the Christian Right: Contextual and Individual Patterns of Electoral Influence (1999) (86)
- Selective Deprivatization among American Religious Traditions: The Reversal of the Great Reversal (1998) (86)
- Religion in the Lives of American Adolescents: A Review of the Literature. A Research Report of the National Study of Youth and Religion. (2003) (80)
- Who Protests in America: An Analysis of Three Political Alternatives—Inaction, Institutionalized Politics, or Protest (1999) (78)
- The Social Structure of Moral Outrage in Recruitment to the U.S. Central America Peace Movement (2001) (76)
- SOCIAL PREDICTORS OF RETENTION IN AND SWITCHING FROM THE RELIGIOUS FAITH OF FAMILY OF ORIGIN: ANOTHER LOOK USING RELIGIOUS TRADITION SELF-IDENTIFICATION (2003) (76)
- Devotion in Dixie and beyond: A Test of the "Shibley Thesis" on the Effects of Regional Origin and Migration on Individual Religiosity (1998) (68)
- Religion: What It Is, How It Works, and Why It Matters (2017) (65)
- Research Note: Religious Participation and Parental Moral Expectations and Supervision of American Youth (2003) (64)
- Religion and American adolescent delinquency, risk behaviors and constructive social activities (2002) (64)
- Why Things Matter to People (2013) (59)
- Why Christianity Works: An Emotions-Focused Phenomenological Account (2007) (57)
- The Spirit and Democracy: Base Communities, Protestantism, and Democratization in Latin America* (1994) (56)
- Test Review: Gilliam, J. (2006). GARS-2: Gilliam Autism Rating Scale—Second Edition. Austin, TX: PRO-ED (2008) (54)
- Religious Authority and Public Opinion on the Right to Die (1998) (51)
- Religion and Charitable Financial Giving to Religious and Secular Causes: Does Political Ideology Matter? (2011) (51)
- Latin American religion in motion (2001) (50)
- Introduction: Marx and Shakespeare: A Continuing Process (2018) (45)
- Religion and American Adolescent Delinquency, Risk Behaviors and Constructive Social Activities. A Research Report of the National Study of Youth and Religion. (2002) (44)
- Religion in the lives of American adolescents (2003) (42)
- Young Catholic America: Emerging Adults In, Out of, and Gone from the Church (2014) (41)
- Conflicting or Compatible: Beliefs About Religion and Science Among Emerging Adults in the United States1 (2011) (40)
- Religion in the Lives of American Adolescents : A Review of the Literature by (2003) (39)
- Introduction: Rethinking the Secularization of American Public Life (2003) (38)
- Revolutionary evangelicals in Nicaragua : Political opportunity, class interests, and religious identity (1997) (37)
- On Social Solidarity (2014) (36)
- On the Boundaries of American Evanelicalism: The Postwar Evangelical Coalition (1998) (32)
- Toward the Measurement of Interpersonal Generosity (IG): An IG Scale Conceptualized, Tested, and Validated (2009) (27)
- Secularizing American Higher Education: The Case of Early American Sociology (2003) (26)
- Mapping the Big Picture (2005) (24)
- The Conceptual Incoherence of “Culture” in American Sociology (2016) (24)
- Passing the plate (2008) (24)
- Young Catholic America (2014) (21)
- The Paradox of Generosity: Giving We Receive, Grasping We Lose (2014) (18)
- Religion and the Life Attitudes and Self-Images of American Adolescents. A Research Report of the National Study of Youth and Religion. (2002) (18)
- Multiple Modernities and Religion (2010) (17)
- Family Religious Involvement and the Quality of Family Relationships for Early Adolescents. A Research Report of the National Study of Youth and Religion. (2003) (16)
- The Relevance of Hispanic Culture to the Treatment of a Patient with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). (2006) (14)
- Pastoral Mobilization and Contention: The Religious Foundations of the Solidarity Movement in Poland (2014) (14)
- DENOMINATIONAL DIFFERENCES IN CONGREGATION YOUTH MINISTRY PROGRAMS AND EVIDENCE OF SYSTEMATIC NON-RESPONSE BIASES (2009) (13)
- Correcting a Curious Neglect, or Bringing Religion Back In (2019) (13)
- Portraits of Protestant Teens: A Report on Teenagers in Major U.S. Denominations (2005) (13)
- The Black Church in the Civil Rights Movement: the SCLC as the Decentralized, Radical Arm of the Black Church (2014) (13)
- Las Casas as Theological Counteroffensive: An Interpretation of Gustavo Gutiérrez’s Las Casas: In Search of the Poor of Jesus Christ (2002) (12)
- Promised Land: Base Christian Communities and the Struggle for the Amazon.@@@Theologies and Liberation in Peru: The Role of Ideas in Social Movements. (1996) (11)
- Passing the Plate: Why American Christians Don't Give Away More Money (2008) (11)
- Five Proposals for Reforming Article Publishing in the Social Scientific Study of Religion (Especially Quantitative): Improving the Quality, Value, and Cumulativeness of Our Scholarship (2010) (11)
- Many Are Called but Few Obey: Ideological Commitment and Activism in Operation Rescue (2014) (10)
- Back-Pocket God (2020) (10)
- Back-Pocket God: Religion and Spirituality in the Lives of Emerging Adults (2020) (10)
- Religious Parenting (2019) (9)
- On ‘Moralistic Therapeutic Deism’ as US Teenagers’ Actual, Tacit, De Facto Religious Faith (2016) (9)
- Are American Youth Alienated From Organized Religion (2004) (9)
- Methodological issues and challenges in the study of American youth and religion (2001) (9)
- Comparing Ethical Naturalism and “Public Sociology” (2013) (8)
- Handing Down the Faith: How Parents Pass Their Religion on to the Next Generation (2020) (7)
- Popular Religion, Protest, and Revolt: The Emergence of Political Insurgency in the Nicaraguan and Salvadoran Churches of the 1960s-80s (2014) (7)
- Is Moralistic Therapeutic Deism the New Religion of American Youth?: Implications for the Challenge of Religious Socialization and Reproduction (2007) (6)
- Objectivity and its Discontents: Knowledge Advocacy in the Sally Hemings Controversy (2008) (6)
- Revivalism and Cultural Change: Christianity, Nation Building, and the Market in the Nineteenth-Century United States.By George M. Thomas. University of Chicago Press, 1989. 238 pp. $34.95 (1993) (6)
- Radical Islamic Insurgency in the Iranian Revolution of 1978-1979 (2014) (5)
- Handing Down the Faith (5)
- Grasping the Big Sociological Picture Shaping the Moral Lives of College Students Today (2012) (4)
- Church Leadership, State Repression, and the "Spiral of Involvement" in the South African Anti-apartheid Movement, 1983-1990 (2014) (4)
- A Modified Content Analysis of Existing School Psychology Reports (2012) (4)
- Why “Why Christianity Works” Works (2008) (3)
- SACRED AND SECULAR: RELIGION AND POLITICS WORLDWIDE Edited by Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart (2006) (3)
- Religious Trajectories from the Teenage Years (2009) (3)
- Rediscovering the Sacred: Perspectives on Religion in Contemporary Society. (1993) (3)
- Religious Rituals of Resistance and Class Consciousness in Bolivian Tin-Mining Communities (2014) (3)
- Shakespeare's influence on Marx, Freud and the Frankfurt school critical theorists (2012) (3)
- Religious Faith and Emerging Adult Life Outcomes (2009) (2)
- Contemplative Listening, Contemplative Literacy (2017) (2)
- Procedures for Reliable Cultural Model Analysis Using Semi-structured Interviews (2021) (2)
- Fellow Traveler in Theoretical Frontiers (2013) (2)
- The Return of Culture (2003) (2)
- Rediscovering the Sacred: Perspectives on Religion in Contemporary Society.By Robert Wuthnow. Eerdmans, 1992. 178 pp. Cloth $28.95; paper $18.95 (1993) (2)
- Side effects of prostate cancer treatment. (1998) (2)
- FAMILY AND REPRODUCTION AMONG PROTESTANTS IN RIO DE JANEIRO (2004) (2)
- Are Human Beings Naturally Religious (2018) (1)
- Making Some Sense of It All (2009) (1)
- Atheist Overreach: What Atheism Can't Deliver (2018) (1)
- Adolescent Religion and Life Outcomes (2005) (1)
- Does Naturalism Warrant a Moral Belief in Universal Benevolence and Human Rights (2009) (1)
- What is a Person? And Why it Matters in Religious Ethics (2014) (1)
- Comparing Ethical Naturalism and “Public Sociology” (2013) (1)
- How the Sociology of Education Can Help Us Better Understand Religion and Morality (2011) (1)
- The National Study of Youth and Religion in a Nutshell Making (2013) (1)
- “That smooth-faced gentleman … Commodity”: Shakespeare's critique of exchange-value in King John (2017) (1)
- Malcolm Jeeves, ed., Rethinking Human Nature: A Multidisciplinary Approach (2012) (1)
- Rethinking the Secularization of American Public Life (2020) (1)
- The Purpose and Nature of Life (2019) (0)
- The Empty Church: The Suicide of Liberal Christianity; By Thomas C. Reeves New York, Free, 1996. 276 pp. $25.00 (1997) (0)
- Writing Home: A Literacy Autobiography , by Eli Goldblatt (2013) (0)
- Christian Smith. The Emergence of Liberation Theology: Radical Religion and Social Movement Theory. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1991. Bibliography, index, tables, figures, 300 pp.. (1993) (0)
- The Conceptual Incoherence of “Culture” in American Sociology (2016) (0)
- RETROSPECTIVE BOOK REVIEW SYMPOSIUM ON JAMES HUNTER'S 1980s EVANGELICALISM BOOKSSOCIOLOGISTS OF RELIGION: A PRECEDING GENERATION IN THE QUANDARY OF AN ACCOMMODATING EVANGELICALISM (2019) (0)
- How Family Life Shapes Religious Parenting (2021) (0)
- Sociology of Religion (2019) (0)
- Theorizing Cultural Models (2019) (0)
- “The point is to change it”: The Imperative for Activist Literary Studies (2020) (0)
- Parents’ Expectations of Religious Congregations (2021) (0)
- Seeking Sanctuary: How Schools Can Protect and Advocate for Undocumented Students (2017) (0)
- Religious Trajectories from the Teenage Years into Emerging Adulthood (2014) (0)
- Translating Orchids: Rhizomes in German Shakespeare Translation (2021) (0)
- Latin American Religion in Motion: Tracking Innovation, Unexpected Change, and Complexity (2001) (0)
- Intoxication’s “Fake Feeling of Happiness” (2011) (0)
- Articulating ecological injustices of nuclear energy (2014) (0)
- Two Baptist Girls (2005) (0)
- Tipping the Plate: Understanding the Role of Financial Anxiety in Religious Giving (2010) (0)
- Emerging Adult Catholics across Four Decades: 1970s to 2000s (2014) (0)
- Shooting the 'Gifts' of the Archives: A Convoluted Pedagogy (2019) (0)
- The Cultural Worlds of Emerging Adults (2009) (0)
- Changing Faith: The Dynamics and Consequences of Americans’ Shifting Religious Identities. By Darren E. Sherkat. New York: New York University Press, 2014. Pp. viii+213. $79.00 (cloth); $24.00 (paper). (2015) (0)
- Featured Review (2014) (0)
- Six Major Religious Types (2009) (0)
- Concluding Unscientific Postscript (2005) (0)
- A Comparison of the Political Behavior of Faith-Based and Secular Peace Groups (2014) (0)
- Why Are Parents the Crucial Players? (2021) (0)
- Human Culture(s) as Moral Order(s) (2003) (0)
- Church Leaders Forum: The Faith of the Next Generation (2005) (0)
- The Teenagers of Soul Searching Five Years Later (2009) (0)
- American Evangelicalism: Embattled and Thriving, by Christian Smith with Michael Emerson, Sally Gallagher, Paul Kennedy and David Sikkink. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1998, 310 pp. $45.00, $16.00 (pbk) (1999) (0)
- Conclusion (2019) (0)
- The Whys and Hows of Religious Transmission (2019) (0)
- Who Actually Is a Catholic (2014) (0)
- Emerging Adult Religion in Life Course and Historical Perspective (2009) (0)
- Catholic High School and Religiousness in Emerging Adulthood (2014) (0)
- A Statistical Portrait of Catholic Emerging Adults Today (2014) (0)
- 1. Critical Realist Personalism—Some Basics (2015) (0)
- After Heaven: Spirituality in America since the 1950s, by Robert Wuthnow. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998, 277 pp. $29.95 (1999) (0)
- Religion’s Value and Truth (2019) (0)
- 6. Toward a Theory of Flourishing (2015) (0)
- Civic and Political Disengagement (2011) (0)
- Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Youth (2003) (0)
- Religious Affiliations, Practices, Beliefs, Experiences, and More (2009) (0)
- The Question of Accountability (2014) (0)
- Spiritual Seekers, the Disengaged, and Religiously Devoted Teens (2005) (0)
- Pain and ‘ bad kissing decisions ’ : Learning about Intimate Relationships from Buffy Season Six (2011) (0)
- The Big Picture of American Religious Parenting (0)
- Giving to Change the World (2008) (0)
- Catholic Emerging Adults in Historical Context: 1945 to 1970 (2014) (0)
- Amaka Okechukwu. To Fulfill These Rights: Political Struggle Over Affirmative Action and Open Admissions. (2022) (0)
- American Adolescent Religion in Social Context (2005) (0)
- Toward Explaining Ungenerous Giving (2008) (0)
- How Did We Get Here?—The Short Story (2014) (0)
- Emerging Adult Catholics, Their Faith, and the Church in Their Own Words (2014) (0)
- Captive to Consumerism (2011) (0)
- The Imposition of Narrative (2015) (0)
- Marxist studies (2021) (0)
- The Cultural Structures in Emerging Adult Religion (2009) (0)
- Brad, June, and Amanda (2009) (0)
- Introduction: The Riddle of Stingy Christian Giving (2008) (0)
- GIVING UP SMOKING (1962) (0)
- God, Religion, Whatever (2005) (0)
- The Shadow Side of Sexual Liberation (2011) (0)
- What Is Sociology Good For (2014) (0)
- Catholic Faith and Life Course Outcomes (2014) (0)
- Marx and Freud: Great Shakespeareans, Vol. X (2012) (0)
- A Mental Experiment in Raised Expectations (2008) (0)
- SMITH (Christian), PROKOPY (Joshua), eds., Latin American Religion in Motion. New York, Routledge, 1999, 303 p. (cf. Arch. supra, pp. 61-66) (2001) (0)
- Shakespeare's Influence on Karl Marx (2021) (0)
- Children, Parenting, and Family (2019) (0)
- Parent Religiousness, Parenting Styles, and Intergenerational Religious Transmission (2021) (0)
- ‘Verdammt Metall’: Marx’s use of Shakespeare in his Critique of Exchange-value (2017) (0)
- A LITE R ATU RE REVIE W ON THE SPIRITUA L LIVES OF Children (2013) (0)
- 3. Against Social Situationism (2015) (0)
- 7. Understanding Failure, Destruction, and Evil (2015) (0)
- The New Immigrants and Religious Parenting (2021) (0)
- God in Public: Four Ways American Christianity and Public Life Relate. By Mark G. Toulouse. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006. Pp. xxiii+269. $19.95 (paper). (2008) (0)
- Cultural Models of Religious Parenting (0)
- Fortune and caskets : necrophilia in The Merchant of Venice. (2014) (0)
- Is Moralistic Therapeutic Deism the New Religion of American Youth? Implications for the Challenge of Religious Socialization and Reproduction (2020) (0)
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