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Christian Smith is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Society at the University of Notre Dame. His research interests focus on religion in modernity, adolescents, American evangelicalism, and culture. He is the author or co-author of numerous books on the interplay between religion, cultural influences, and society, including Souls in Transition: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults (Oxford, 2009), Passing the Plate: Why American Christians Don’t Give Away More Money (Oxford, 2008), and Moral, Believing Animals: Human Personhood and Culture (Oxford, 2003). Currently he is working on several primary research projects on topics such as generosity in human life and society, personhood and human nature in the social sciences, and “multiple modernities” in moral and religious life around the world. Before coming to the University of Notre Dame, he taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.