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Reflections@Rickman

Reflections session to be held Tuesday, March 16. 

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Book co-author to join discussion for Reflections@Rickman 

Melinda Denton, one of the authors of Soul Searching, is planning to join us for our discussion on March 16.  She will present information from her studies, including this book.  She will be a part of the discussion that follows.  This should make this a very rewarding time.  Be sure to come to this event, share in the discussion, and hear perspectives from one of the scholars involved in the major research study on which this book is based.

Melinda Lundquist Denton is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Clemson University.  Her research examines the intersection of religion and family life in the United States, with a current focus on the religious lives of adolescents.  Dr. Denton's primary work is with the National Study of Youth and Religion, a longitudinal mixed-method study of youth and young adults in the United States based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Notre Dame University. She served as the Project Manager for Wave 1 and is currently a Co-Investigator for Waves 2 and 3.  Dr. Denton's publications include "Gender and Marital Decision Making: Negotiating Religious Ideology and Practice" and Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers with Christian Smith.   She is also a co-author, along with Lisa D. Pearce, of a forthcoming book, A Faith of Their Own: Stability and Change in the Religiosity of America's Adolescents.  Dr. Denton completed her Ph.D. in Sociology at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.   

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The staff of the Rickman Library is very happy to announce that the following book has been selected for our next discussion (along with thanks to many who participated in the selection process):

Soul searching: the religious and spiritual lives of American teenagers by Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton.  Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. (Paperback edition, 2009).

This book is an analysis of religious beliefs and behaviors of teenagers based on a large-scale research study, followed up by a number of personal interviews.  The authors paint an interesting picture of the religious landscape of American youth-something which speaks directly to the lives of many of our students, particularly in the traditional program.  It may be interesting to explore how much their study of religious beliefs and behavior of teens reflects the religious life of Americans more broadly-not just teens.

This session of Reflections@Rickman will be held in the Library Tuesday, March 16, 2010, from 4 until 5:30 p.m. 

We have copies of the book in the library.  The following is a link to the paperback edition at Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Soul-Searching-Religious-Spiritual-Teenagers/dp/0195384776/ref=tmm_pap_title_0

If you are interested in further information concerning the research studies that have been conducted, or research reports and publications based on that data, take a look at:  http://www.youthandreligion.org/

Read the book and plan to join the discussion!  If you have any questions or suggestions about Reflections@Rickman, please let us know.

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Our previous Reflections from Fall 2009:

Thanks to everyone who joined us for another great Reflections@Rickman on Tuesday, November 10. We reflected together on The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University by Kevin Roose, about a Brown University sophomore's semester spent as a student at Liberty University.

The discussion will continue on the library's blog. Click on the link above to join the converstation!