TY - BOOK AU - Bergler,Thomas E. TI - The juvenilization of American Christianity SN - 9780802866844 (pbk. : alk. paper) AV - BR526 .B455 2012 U1 - 277.3/0825 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Grand Rapids, Mich. PB - William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co. KW - Christianity KW - United States KW - 20th century KW - 21st century KW - Christianity and culture N1 - 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 ER -