Sociology

Historian Molly Worthen studies dynamic leaders, eager followers, and their shared efforts to “consecrate a new reality.”

A new book explores how culture and geography shape faith and practice.

A symposium on Christian Smith’s book Why Religion Went Obsolete.

One is relatively simple to map out. The other is much harder to capture.

How Christian Smith’s concept of a “Millennial Zeitgeist” helps explain their recent retreat from faith.

Why a post-Christian generation might be the ripest for revival.

Christian Smith responds to CT’s reviews of Why Religion Went Obsolete.

The author and sociologist gets to the roots of the American crisis.

New insights into mental health, religious communities, and the digital world.

How the next generation’s mental health crisis might recall the timeless values of wandering and wayfinding.