Adults have their own issues and their own problems, which are understandable, and some adults are working through their own adolescent issues.- — Christian Smith Adults Copy Share Image
“From the isolated, individualistic perspective of most white evangelicals and many other Americans, there really is no race problem other than bad… — Christian Smith American culture Copy Share Image
“variety of kinds of practices of generosity are positively and significantly associated with five important good life outcomes. Giving money, volunteering, being… — Christian Smith Generosity Copy Share Image
“Persons in their most developed form are conscious, reflexive, embodied, self-transcending centers of subjective experience, durable identity, moral commitment, and social communication… — Christian Smith Communication Copy Share Image
Evangelicals come from all ethnic and racial backgrounds, but nearly 90 percent of Americans who call themselves evangelicals are white. — Christian Smith Backgrounds Copy Share Image
“Claude Monet's Water Lilies (The Clouds) consists of nothing more than dabs of different colored paint on a canvas.14 But because of… — Christian Smith Painting Copy Share Image
“Because evangelicals view their primary task as evangelism and discipleship,1 they tend to avoid issues that hinder these activities. Thus, they are… — Christian Smith American society Copy Share Image
“Are we simply self-conscious animals improbably appearing for a moment in a cosmos without purpose or significance? If so, that has implications… — Christian Smith Identity Copy Share Image
“generosity involved in proactively forgiving other people. This form of generosity, and the positive feelings it evokes in generous forgivers, have been… — Christian Smith Blood pressure Copy Share Image
“Some sacred projects are so doggedly committed to advancing their particular, packaged views of believed orthodoxies that they can become blinded to… — Christian Smith Goals Copy Share Image
The clergy profession is fundamentally self-defeating. Its stated purpose is to nurture spiritual maturity in the church - a valuable goal. In… — Christian Smith Accomplish Copy Share Image
The problem is that, regardless of what our theologies tell us about the purpose of the clergy, the actual effect of the… — Christian Smith Body Copy Share Image
“Evangelicals usually fail to challenge the system not just out of concern for evangelism, but also because they support the American system… — Christian Smith American society Copy Share Image
“Capitalism is not merely a system for the efficient production and distribution of goods and services; it also incarnates and promotes a… — Christian Smith Economics Copy Share Image
“The emergent properties of my computer have existence not because they inhere in the component parts that compose them. They do so… — Christian Smith Computers Copy Share Image
“American sociology as a collective enterprise is at heart committed to the visionary project of realizing the emancipation, equality, and moral affirmation… — Christian Smith Business Copy Share Image
“Part of the irony of religion’s role is that in strengthening micro bonds between individuals, religion contributes to within-group homogeneity, heightens isolation… — Christian Smith Christian-smith Copy Share Image
“Although all things with physical substance are real, not all real things have physical substance.” — Christian Smith Real things Copy Share Image
“Evangelicalism, as perhaps the strongest Protestant religious movement in the United States, relies heavily on marketing principles for its strength and growth,… — Christian Smith Evangelicalism Copy Share Image
“Human social life, I suggest, is the magma that erupts and builds up, so to speak, at the fault lines where natural… — Christian Smith Capacity Copy Share Image
“We despise all reverences and all the objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our own list of sacred things.… — Christian Smith Copy Share Image
“to Tocqueville, and reiterated by Robert Bellah and collaborators in their landmark study of American life Habits of the Heart, this pursuit… — Christian Smith American life Copy Share Image
“Rather than leaving generous people on the short end of an unequal bargain, practices of generosity are actually likely instead to provide… — Christian Smith Generosity Copy Share Image
“Reality has a deep dimension often operating below the surface of empirical experience. To think otherwise is to commit what critical realists… — Christian Smith Copy Share Image
