Youth Truth
Soul Searching: The Religious and
Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers
by Christian Smith, with Melinda Lundquist
Denton
Oxford University Press, 2005
(368 pages, $25.00, hardcover)
reviewed by W. Bradford Wilcox
A probing and provocative look at the souls of American teenagers, Soul Searching will, at various turns, leave Christians satisfied and sobered. Smith, a professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, directs the National Study of Youth and Religion, from which the book’s data was taken. Denton, a doctoral candidate at the university, is its project manager.
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