A faith of their own
Subtitle: stability and change in the religiosity of America's adolescents
By: Lisa D. Pearce, Melinda Lundquist Denton
Contributors: Denton, Melinda Lundquist
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780199753895
Description: Although cultural presumptions suggest that American teenagers and young adults turn away from religion, this volume demonstrates that religion is in fact an influential force in the lives of most American adolescents.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A holistic model of religiosity and its contexts in adolescence; title: Profiles of religiosity in adolescence; title: Roots and ramifications of the five "A"s of religiosity; title: Slightly moving parts of the whole; title: When down is up : complexities in adolescent religious change; title: Scaffolding for religious refinement in adolescence.