moralistic therapeutic deism

English

Alternative forms

Moralistic Therapeutic Deism
MTD (initialism)

Etymology

2005 neologism (coined by Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton in Soul searching: the religious and spiritual lives of American teenagers, Oxford University Press, 2005).

Noun

moralistic therapeutic deism (uncountable)

A diffuse notion of theism and morality, which need not be tied to any particular religious creed, found to be common among early 21st-century US American teenagers.
- 'Moralistic Therapeutic Deism' indicates the young people's view is that religion is 'good for you' in so far as it provides people with a moral framework (Sara Savage, Sylvia Collins-Mayo, Making sense of Generation Y: the world view of 15- to 25-year-olds, 2006, p. 50)

单词	moralistic therapeutic deism
释义	moralistic therapeutic deism English Alternative forms Moralistic Therapeutic Deism MTD (initialism) Etymology 2005 neologism (coined by Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton in Soul searching: the religious and spiritual lives of American teenagers, Oxford University Press, 2005). Noun moralistic therapeutic deism (uncountable) A diffuse notion of theism and morality, which need not be tied to any particular religious creed, found to be common among early 21st-century US American teenagers. 'Moralistic Therapeutic Deism' indicates the young people's view is that religion is 'good for you' in so far as it provides people with a moral framework (Sara Savage, Sylvia Collins-Mayo, Making sense of Generation Y: the world view of 15- to 25-year-olds, 2006, p. 50)
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