Roof Spiritual Marketplace
And yet americans continue to identify with some sort of faith.
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. Spirituality in america by phyllis tickle after heaven. 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. Baby boomers and the remaking of american religion by wade clark roof rediscovering the sacred.
The arguments in roof s latest installment are predictable. It is within saying this that roofs idea of spiritual marketplace makes itself most evident. Roof claims that we have adopted a reflexive spirituality by necessity deliberately cobbling together our own responses to the need for wholeness and encouraging others in similar efforts. Written with a hands on approach spiritual marketplace takes the reader on a exploration of what drives america s faith.
Spiritual marketplace charts the emergence of five subcultures. Dogmatists born again christians mainstream believers metaphysical believers and seekers and secularists. Aging american boomers are taking spirituality fairly seriously. The spiritual marketplace itself produces an ever expanding array of possibilities.
In conclusion roofs work has inspired thought about my own spiritual quest and all the americans who have joined in theirs. 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. Dogmatists born again christians mainstream believers metaphysical believers and seekers and secularists. 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.
Another dose of baby boomer religion from roof dept. Roof has identified several themes in the spiritual lives of. Each must be respected because they all hold validity in their attempt to access truth and love. And as wade clark roof showed in his book spiritual marketplace.
Baby boomers and the remaking of american religion religion in this country fragmented over the past half century to the point. The classic catholic protestant models no longer seem to be working the way the used to.