Sociology as a Handmaiden to Evangelism? A Review of ‘Got Religion?’ by Naomi Schaefer Riley


 Naomi Schaefer Riley, Got Religion? How Churches, Mosques and Synagogues Can Bring Young People Back (West Conshohocken, PA: Templeton Press, 2014). Hardcover / Kindle “All young people, newly come into an urban environment, and living for the first time outside of the family group and the association of old acquaintances, constitute an element of gravest spiritual and moral dangers as well as one of untold possibilities.” Is this the latest warning from the Barna Group about the problem of young people leaving the Church? No, these are the words of University of Chicago sociologist H. Paul Douglass in The St. … Continue reading Sociology as a Handmaiden to Evangelism? A Review of ‘Got Religion?’ by Naomi Schaefer Riley