Christian Smith

Why Religion Went Obsolete

The Demise of Traditional Faith in America

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Produktbeschreibung

Traditional religion in the United States has suffered huge losses in recent decades. But we know a lot more about the fact that traditional American religion has declined than we do about why this is so. Why Religion Went Obsolete aims to change that. Drawing on survey data and hundreds of interviews, Christian Smith offers a sweeping, multifaceted account of why Americans have lost faith in traditional religion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm
• ISBN-13: 9780197800737
• ISBN-10: 0197800734
• Artikelnr.: 71744880

Autorenporträt

Christian Smith is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Society at the University of Notre Dame. Smith is well known for his research focused on religion, adolescents and emerging adults, and social theory. He has written many books, including Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America (with Michael O. Emerson), as well as Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers (with Melinda Lundquist Denton).

Inhaltsangabe

0. Introduction
I. Setting the Stage
1. What Needs Explaining
2. Religion Is Good When...
3. Some Complex Ways Culture Changes
II. Perfect Storms Converging
4. Long-Term Social Trends
5. The Developing Religious Environment
6. The 1990s: Beginning of the End
7. The 2000s: Obsolescence Assured
8. Religious Self-Destructions
III. The Aftermath
9. Contours of the Millennial Zeitgeist
10. Through the Exit Door
Conclusion
Appendix: Social Locations of Not Religious Americans