Souls in Transition: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults<\/a>.<\/p>\nToday, I\u2019m going to present what happens between the teen years (13-17) and the emerging adult years (18-23), according to Souls in Transition<\/em>, in regards to religious practices. As we found yesterday, the general trend is away from religious affiliation and toward nonreligious sentiments, although that trend is relatively slight (about a 10 to 15-point shift toward nonbelief among emerging adults).\u00a0 Today we\u2019ll see that in the actual practices that emerging adults report they regularly engage in, the shift is more significant.<\/p>\nFirst, the number of emerging adults who attend church once per week<\/strong> or more drops sharply \u2014 basically in half among conservative Protestants, mainliners, and Catholics.\u00a0 This comes as no great shock to any youth worker or parent who\u2019s sent kids off to school and have them return for Christmas break saying, \u201cOh, yeah, I heard of a really good church, but I never made. I\u2019m definitely going to go there next semester.\u00a0 It\u2019s just really hard to get up on Sunday mornings, and I don\u2019t have a car, and\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Next, percentages of emerging adults who claim to pray daily<\/strong> also drops, although not quite as dramatically.\u00a0 Most notable here is the differences, even to begin with, between evangelicals and Catholics on the one hand, and mainliners and Black Protestants on the other.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
And third, we\u2019ve got a graph tilted in the other direction!\u00a0 Unfortunately, it charts the numbers who claim that they never read the Bible<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Like yesterday, we can begin to draw theological conclusions based on this sociological data.\u00a0 But, while we see that the mainline church seems to struggle to teach their youth to pray and read the Bible, it\u2019s also worth noting that the youth who come out of conservative Protestantism drop their religious practices at the same rate when they become emerging adults.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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