Souls in Transition: Understanding the Religious and Spiritual Lives of College–Age Americans
Christian Smith
Monday, 13 Apr 2015 at 7:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Christian Smith is the author of Young Catholic America: Emerging Adults In, Out of, and Gone from the Church, a new book based on the National Study of Youth and Religion. He offers insight into the wide variety of religious practices and beliefs among young adults today and the influences and events that lead them to embrace religion or abandon it. Christian Smith is a professor of sociology and director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Society at Notre Dame University. He is the author of several books on religion in emerging adulthood, including Lost in Transition: The Dark Side of Emerging Adulthood and Souls in Transition: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults. Msgr. James A. Supple Lecture SeriesWhat are the religious and spiritual lives and experiences like of 18-23 year-olds in the United States today? What social and cultural forces shape their religious views and practices? How do religious faith and practice change between the teenage years and the college-age years? This lecture will present key findings from the National Study of Youth and Religion, a four-wave panel study of American youth conducted between 2000 and 2014, discussing implications both for the sociology of religion and communities of faith.
Cosponsored By:
- St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church & Student Center
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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