Soul Searching
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Movie Reviews of Soul Searching
Movie Review: Great for anyone concerned with the spiritual lives of teenagers!
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a great video for parents, youth ministers, and anyone else concerned with the spiritual lives of teenagers. The only downside in my opinion was that the book discusses at length the idea of "Moralistic Therapeutic Deism" and the video only mentions it briefly.
Otherwise, a great resource!
Movie Review: Very Informative Film
Summary: 4 Stars
This film is very helpful to anyone who works in church ministry with youth. The information is current, relevent, important.Movie Review: Informative But Not Representative
Summary: 3 Stars
Finished watching the documentary with the lead researcher (Christian Smith) and two directors (Timothy and Michael Eaton) available for a quick Q&A following the screening. As the other reviews have raved, the movie is of the highest media and video quality, telling a compelling documentary of how youth today see issues of spirituality and religion. Though informative, my concern however in making this video a "must see" for all parents and pastors is in its lack of an accurate representation of youth in America. That is, who really are our youth and did the movie accurately portray this? For instance, not until the last 10 minutes of the movie was an Asian American edited into the final cut, with only a few seconds given. In comparison, the majority of the interviews were with White, middle to upper-class youth. Though there was one African American and a few Hispanic Americans throughout (in addition to the White Americans), the Hispanic Americans were from the inner cities, and appeared rougher, adding to the negative stereotyping of Hispanic Americans (e.g., there weren't any White Americans from lower socioeconomic status, nor any Hispanic Americans from middle-class suburbia). My concern in raising these issues is to bring up the point that although the book and study may have addressed the issues of representation well (I have yet to read the book), the movie either failed to edit in a more representative group of "youth" or a step previous, did not conduct enough interviews with a substantial sampling to warrant a must see movie on teens and religion/spirituality. If I were a youth pastor from a Korean American church, I'd have to think twice about whether or not to use this documentary.Movie Review: Soul Searching
Summary: 3 Stars
This was a great movie to watch with teens and to open up a discussion on what they believe and how their friends feel.Movie Review: Dated
Summary: 2 Stars
On the positive side the presentation tries to let teens speak for themselves. Yet, the presentation is somewhat dated. Teens currently change rapidly and within a four or five year period you have a new breed. For someone totally unfamiliar with teen thinking it does provide a frame of reference. My experience with teens and their parents also suggests that even parents who give their teens a good model of faith and religious practice does not assure that such will rub off on their teens.