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Finding Faith
Price: $19.95
Subtitle:
The Spiritual Quest
of the Post-Boomer Generation
Authors:
Richard Flory and
Donald E. Miller
Subject:
Christianity,
Sociology
Paper
ISBN 978-0-8135-4273-7
Pages:
208 pages, 11
photographs
Publication Date:
March 2008
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of Contents
Praise
for Finding Faith
“Finding Faith offers an insightful and unique
contribution to helping us understand how the Post-Boomer generation is
shaking things up in American religious culture. Flory and Miller
should be soundly commended for such a creative book.”
—Christian Smith, author of Soul Searching: The Religious and
Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers
"Finding Faith turns the conventional wisdom about
Post-Boomers on its head. Flory and Miller reveal that Post-Boomers are
an eclectic-and not entirely individualistic-lot, one for whom
meaningful spiritual experiences and connections to a broader religious
community are vitally important."
—John P. Bartkowsi, author of The Promise Keepers: Servants,
Soldiers, and Godly Men
"Flory and Miller offer valuable insight into the
religious landscape in which the Post-Boomers are working out their
religious and spiritual journeys."—Journal for the
Scientific Study of Religion
Description:
Despite the
masses still lining up to enter mega-churches with warehouse-like
architecture, casually dressed clergy, and pop Christian music, the
"Post-Boomer" generation-those ranging in age from twenty to forty-is
having second thoughts. In this perceptive look at the evolving face of
Christianity in contemporary culture, sociologists Richard Flory and
Donald E. Miller argue that we are on the verge of another potential
revolution in how Christians worship and associate with one another.
Just as the formative experiences of Baby Boomers were colored by such
things as the war in Vietnam, the 1960s, and a dramatic increase in
their opportunities for individual expression, so Post-Boomers have
grown up in less structured households with working (often divorced)
parents. These childhood experiences leave them craving authentic
spiritual experience, rather than entertainment, and also cause them to
question institutions. Flory and Miller develop a typology that
captures four current approaches to the Christian faith and argue that
this generation represents a new religious orientation of "expressive
communalism," in which they seek spiritual experience and fulfillment
in community and through various expressive forms of spirituality, both
private and public.
About the Authors:
Richard Flory is a research associate in the Center
for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern
California.
Donald E. Miller is Firestone Professor
of Religion and executive director of the Center for Religion and Civic
Culture at the University of Southern California.
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