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Souls In Transition: The Religious And Spiritual Lives Of Emerging Adults (2009)

by Christian Smith(Favorite Author)

3.85 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0195371798 (ISBN13: 9780195371796)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

review 1: A follow-up to the author's earlier survey of the religious and spiritual lives of teenagers, this book looks at the spiritual lives of young adults. The author finds an overall decline in religious practice, combined with a number of troubled teenagers who become interested in religion as young adults. The book is full of information, although none of it should be considered particularly surprising.
review 2: This isn't a book to read in one setting, or even two. It's too information-heavy. It tends to get bogged down with pages and pages of statistics that only a statistician could love.Still, the book does draw insightful conclusions that haven't been reached elsewhere. The narratives are much more interesting and the portrait that is revealed is that emer... moreging adults are able to segment their traditional beliefs and their actual behavior. Thus, they tend not to see anything immoral about cohabitation, for example. Most emerging adults don't give much thought to religion beyond the belief that God exists. Even churchgoing kids tend not to see Christianity as unique, for fear of being judgmental about other religions. In the final analysis, those who stick with church and God have a better chance not to mess up their lives with drugs, alcohol, depression and sexual immorality. less

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