Souls in transition
Subtitle: the religious and spiritual lives of young adults
By: Christian Smith ; with Patricia Snell.
Contributors: Snell, Patricia, 1978-; Smith, Christian, 1960-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780195371796
Subjects: Teenagers -- Religious life -- United States; Spiritual life
Description: This title contains a cultural analysis of emerging adult religion, based on interviews, trying to describe and understand the contours, textures, and complexities of the cultural categories, narratives, discourses, attitudes, and norms of young adult faith and religious and spiritual practice.
Notes: Rev. ed. of: Soul searching. 2005

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Brad, June, and Amanda; title: The cultural worlds of emerging adults; title: Emerging adult religion in life course and historical perspective; title: Religious affiliations, practices, beliefs, experiences, and more; title: The cultural structures of emerging adult religion; title: Six major religious types; title: Soul searching teenagers 5 years later; title: Religious trajectories from the teenage years; title: Religious faith and emerging adult life outcomes; title: Making some sense of it all.