English Explanatory Dictionary

moralistic therapeutic deism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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 American teenagers.
noun
  1. Alternative form of moralistic therapeutic deism.

Word forms

moralistic therapeutic deism MTD

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).

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