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- noun 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 US American teenagers.
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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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