The juvenilization of American Christianity /
Thomas E. Bergler.
- Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., c2012.
- x, 281 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-266) and index.
Introduction: we're all adolescents now -- Youth, Christianity, and the crisis of civilization -- Misreading the signs of the times: from political youth to trivial teenagers -- Social prophets or silent generation?: the failed juvenilization of liberal Protestantism -- The Black church and the juvenilization of Christian political activism -- Why everyone wanted to get out of the Catholic ghetto -- How to have fun, be popular, and save the world at the same time -- Youth, Christianity, and the 1960s apocalypse -- The triumph and taming of juvenilization.
9780802866844 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2011049264
Christianity--United States--20th century. Christianity--United States--21st century. Christianity and culture--United States.