Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 321 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0823226492
,
079109376X
,
0823226484
,
0823226476
,
0823246973
,
1282698710
,
9780823226498
,
9780791093764
,
9780823226481
,
9780823226474
,
9780823246977
,
9781282698710
Series Statement:
The Abrahamic dialogues series no. 5
Content:
From the beginning, the Abrahamic faiths?Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?have stressed the importance of transmitting religious identity from one generation to the next. Today, that sustaining mission has never been more challenged. Will young people have a faith to guide them? How can faith traditions anchor religious attachments in this secular, skeptical culture?The fruit of a historic gathering of scholars and religious leaders across three faiths and many disciplines, this important book reports on the religious lives of young people in today?s world. It?s also a unique inventory of crea
Content:
Introduction : youth and the continuity of religious traditions / James L. Heft -- National and international overviews ; Looking for God : religious indifference in perspective / Melchor Sánchez de Toca -- Journeys of faith : meeting the challenges in twenty-first-century America / Nancy Ammerman -- Three recent national studies ; Is moralistic therapeutic deism the new religion of American youth? : implications for the challenge of religious socialization and reproduction / Christian Smith -- The "interior" lives of American college students : preliminary findings from a national study / Jennifer A. Lindholm -- Congregations that get it : understanding religious identities in the next generation / Tobin Belzer [and others]. Passing on the faith to the next generation of Jews ; BJ : a portrait of a revitalized synagogue / J. Rolando Matalon -- Current expressions of American Jewish identity : an analysis of 114 teenagers / Philip Schwadel -- Passing on the faith to the next generation of Christians ; A spiritual crossroads of Europe : the Taizé community's adventure with the young / Brother John of Taizé. Religious identity and belonging amidst diversity and pluralism : challenges and opportunities for church and theology / Peter C. Phan -- Passing on the faith to the next generation of Muslims ; Identity and community in a new generation : the Muslim community in the early seventh century and today / Ghada Osman -- Making safe space for questioning for young American Muslims / Amira Quraishi -- Second-generation Muslim immigrants in Detroit mosques : the second generation's search for their place and identity in the American mosque / Ihsan Bagby -- Two evaluations of the research ; The leisure of worship and the worship of leisure / Jack Miles -- Teach your children well : closing observations on constructing religious identity in the next generation / Diane Winston
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780823226474
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0823226476
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Passing on the faith New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2006
Language:
English
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