Roof Spiritual Marketplace

Drawing on surveys and in depth interviews for over a decade roof reports on the religious and spiritual styles family patterns and moral vision and values for each of these subcultures.

Roof spiritual marketplace.

Baby boomers and the remaking of american religion religion in this country fragmented over the past half century to the point. Spiritual marketplace charts the emergence of five subcultures. Aging american boomers are taking spirituality fairly seriously. The arguments in roof s latest installment are predictable.

Another dose of baby boomer religion from roof dept. Spiritual marketplace baby boomers and the remaking of american religion by wade clark roof charts the wide ranging search for meaning by the largest generational cohort in u s. Of religious studies uc santa barbara once again arguing that boomers are as the title of one of his earlier books puts it a generation of seekers. Each must be respected because they all hold validity in their attempt to access truth and love.

How can we americans satisfy our wholeness hunger. And yet americans continue to identify with some sort of faith. Roof has identified several themes in the spiritual lives of. Dogmatists born again christians mainstream believers metaphysical believers and seekers and secularists.

The spiritual marketplace itself produces an ever expanding array of possibilities. The classic catholic protestant models no longer seem to be working the way the used to. It is within saying this that roofs idea of spiritual marketplace makes itself most evident. And as wade clark roof showed in his book spiritual marketplace.

In conclusion roofs work has inspired thought about my own spiritual quest and all the americans who have joined in theirs. Dogmatists born again christians mainstream believers metaphysical believers and seekers and secularists. Spiritual marketplace charts the emergence of five subcultures. Written with a hands on approach spiritual marketplace takes the reader on a exploration of what drives america s faith.

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