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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Christian Smith; Patricia Snell |
| ISBN: | 9780195371796 0195371798 |
| OCLC Number: | 304386059 |
| Description: | viii, 355 p. : ill., charts ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Brad, June, and Amanda -- The cultural worlds of emerging adults -- Emerging adult religion in life course and historical perspective -- Religious affiliations, practices, beliefs, experiences, and more -- The cultural structures of emerging adult religion -- Six major religious types -- The teenagers of 'Soul searching' 5 years later -- Religious trajectories from the teenage years -- Religious faith and emerging adult life outcomes -- Making some sense of it all. |
| Responsibility: | Christian Smith ; with Patricia Snell. |
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"Well-organized and seasoned with enough memorable interviews that lay readers will value it as much as specialists." --Publisher's Weekly
"Ranks for me as a potential book of the year for 2010." --Beliefnet.com
"Unlike the nonsense delivered in news magazines and opinion polls, Souls in Transition is serious scholarly research about religion among emerging adults. The sober, fair-minded presentation of evidence about what is and what is not happening among Americans age 18 to 23 is refreshing." --Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University
"It would be hard to exceed the brilliance of Soul Searching, but Smith and Snell have achieved this feat in Souls in Transition. Through a masterful combination of surveys and interviews the authors illuminate emerging adults' religious beliefs as no one has done before, and also provide numerous insights on how religion is connected to other aspects of their lives. This book is social science at its best and should not be missed by anyone who wishes to understand the lives of today's emerging adults." --Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, Clark University, Author of Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Roadfrom the Late Teens Through the Twenties
"Christian Smith's work in the National Study of Youth and Religion is the gold standard for research on religion and adolescents--and now, emerging adults. So buckle up: Souls in Transition reads like an avalanche as Smith reports the findings of the 18-23 year old cohort, takes on our culture's current "crisis of knowledge and value," reveals the uneven terrain of emerging adulthood. Insisting that religious disinterest in 18-23 year olds is neither inevitable nor universal, Smith challenges parents and congregations to support and model religious engagement with emerging adults. If you're a parent, pastor, campus minister, educator, congregation member--or a 'twenty something' yourself-- this book needs to be on your shelf." --Kenda Creasy Dean, Ph.D., parent, pasto
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