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BL
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955912
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b710282
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| Main Entry
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Dean, Kenda Creasy,1959-
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| Title & Author
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Almost Christian : : what the faith of our teenagers is telling the American church /\ Kenda Creasy Dean.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2010.
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1 online resource (x, 254 pages)
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| ISBN
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0195314840
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: 019975053X
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: 9780195314847
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: 9780199750535
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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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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Teenagers-- Religious life-- United States.
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RELIGION-- Christianity-- History.
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Teenagers-- Religious life.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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277.3/0830835
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| LC Classification
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BV4531.3.D43 2010eb
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