Back-Pocket God
Religion and Spirituality in the Lives of Emerging Adults
Publisher: OUP USA
Date of Publication: 22 April 2020
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Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9780190064785 |
| ISBN10: | 0190064781 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 288 pages |
| Size: | 157x239x27 mm |
| Weight: | 1 g |
| Language: | English |
| 206 |
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Short description:
The culmination of a decade-long project, in which researchers followed a set of young people as they grew from teenagers into adults, Back Pocket God challenges some popular assumptions about young people and religion. Melinda Denton and Richard Flory find that young adults are indeed moving away from organized religion. Yet, they don't seem so much opposed to religion or to religious organizations, at least in the abstract, as they are uninterested in religion, at least as they have experienced it. Religion is like the ubiquitous smartphones in our back pockets: there to be used, when convenient, to accomplish a particular task.
Long description:
More than a decade ago, a group of researchers began to study the religious and spiritual lives of American teenagers. They tracked these young people over the course of a decade, revisiting them periodically to check in on the state -and future- of religion in America, and reporting on their findings in a series of books, beginning with Soul Searching (2005). Now, with Back-Pocket God, this mammoth research project comes to its conclusion. What have we learned about the changing shape of religion in America?
Back-Pocket God explores continuity and change among young people from their teenage years through the latter stages of "emerging adulthood." Melinda Lundquist Denton and Richard Flory find that the story of young adult religion is one of an overall decline in commitment and affiliation, and in general, a moving away from organized religion. Yet, there is also a parallel trend in which a small, religiously committed group of emerging adults claim faith as an important fixture in their lives. Emerging adults don't seem so much opposed to religion or to religious organizations, at least in the abstract, as they are uninterested in religion, at least as they have experienced it. Religion is like an app on the ubiquitous smartphones in our back pockets: readily accessible, easy to control, and usefulbut only for limited purposes.
Denton and Flory show that some of the popular assumptions about young people and religion are not as clear as what many people seem to believe. The authors challenge the characterizations of religiously unaffiliated emerging adults -sometimes called "religious nones"- as undercover atheists. At the other end of the spectrum, they question the assumption that those who are not religious will return to religion once they marry and have children.
In sum, this book is a landmark on sociology of religion, also because it is the last book of a very important project. The array of data, expressed in many indicators, typologies, and analyses, makes this book of utmost importance in this area.
Back-Pocket God explores continuity and change among young people from their teenage years through the latter stages of "emerging adulthood." Melinda Lundquist Denton and Richard Flory find that the story of young adult religion is one of an overall decline in commitment and affiliation, and in general, a moving away from organized religion. Yet, there is also a parallel trend in which a small, religiously committed group of emerging adults claim faith as an important fixture in their lives. Emerging adults don't seem so much opposed to religion or to religious organizations, at least in the abstract, as they are uninterested in religion, at least as they have experienced it. Religion is like an app on the ubiquitous smartphones in our back pockets: readily accessible, easy to control, and usefulbut only for limited purposes.
Denton and Flory show that some of the popular assumptions about young people and religion are not as clear as what many people seem to believe. The authors challenge the characterizations of religiously unaffiliated emerging adults -sometimes called "religious nones"- as undercover atheists. At the other end of the spectrum, they question the assumption that those who are not religious will return to religion once they marry and have children.
In sum, this book is a landmark on sociology of religion, also because it is the last book of a very important project. The array of data, expressed in many indicators, typologies, and analyses, makes this book of utmost importance in this area.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Teens of Soul Searching 10 Years Later
Chapter 3: Transitioning to Adult Life: Major Themes in the Lives of Emerging Adults
Chapter 4: Where are they Now? Religious Affiliation, Practice, Beliefs and Experiences
Chapter 5: Understanding Differences in Emerging Adult Religion
Chapter 6: How did They Get There? Trajectories in the Religious Lives of Emerging Adults
Chapter 7: Faith and Family
Chapter 8: Conclusion
Appendix A: Methodological Appendix
Chapter 2: The Teens of Soul Searching 10 Years Later
Chapter 3: Transitioning to Adult Life: Major Themes in the Lives of Emerging Adults
Chapter 4: Where are they Now? Religious Affiliation, Practice, Beliefs and Experiences
Chapter 5: Understanding Differences in Emerging Adult Religion
Chapter 6: How did They Get There? Trajectories in the Religious Lives of Emerging Adults
Chapter 7: Faith and Family
Chapter 8: Conclusion
Appendix A: Methodological Appendix
