Christian Smith

Christian Smith is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame. He studies culture, religion, social theory, and environmental degradation and climate change, and is the author of many books, including Why Religion Went Obsolete: the Demise of Traditional Faith in America (OUP 2025); What is a Person?: Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good from the Person Up (Chicago 2010); Soul Searching: the Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers (OUP 2005); and Moral, Believing Animals: Human Personhood and Culture (OUP 2003). Smith and his corgi live on and work a permaculture farmstead in southwest Michigan.