{"id":5249,"date":"2010-01-14T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T00:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2010\/01\/souls-in-transition-5.html"},"modified":"2010-01-14T00:02:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T00:02:00","slug":"souls-in-transition-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2010\/01\/souls-in-transition-5.html","title":{"rendered":"Souls in Transition 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/Smith-10556.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/120\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/Smith-thumb-333x483-10556.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"483\" alt=\"Smith.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/a><\/span>So what is the religious life of emerging adults today? What about its affiliations, practices, beliefs and experiences?<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>What Smith and Snell discovered in their fantastic new book: <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0195371798?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jescre-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0195371798\">Souls in Transition: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jescre-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0195371798\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;will be of use to all pastors and churches.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Frankly, I&#8217;m surprised by the lack of comments about this exceptional book. Maybe you are all buying it and reading it! Question: Are these characteristics what you are seeing in emerging adults?<\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This chp is lengthy with lots of data and lots of graphs and lots of ideas, but here are some fundamental ideas:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>60% of emerging adults identify as religious and the majority of that number is evangelical.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>There is a tendency to fragment and avoid affiliation with a denomination and to identify as not religious.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>There are clear indicators of shifting affiliations from teenage years into emerging adulthood &#8212; between 28 and 50 percent shift.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>During emerging adulthood, the objective, public religious practices decline while more subjective dimensions (belief in God etc) decline less so. Between 18-23 fewer than 1% of emerging adults is attending a religious meeting other than church regularly. 25% think one should marry within one&#8217;s faith.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nMost emerging adults report little change in their religiosity in the previous five years; those who say there is change tend to say they have become less religious.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Most emerging adults seem positive about organized or mainstream religion in the United States&#8221; (141).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>On heaven and who might go there &#8230; they are divided. Significant minorities engage in religious practices and have had significant religious experiences. Most think too many religious people are negative.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They are friendly to individualistic and pluralistic perceptions of religion.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Only 15% they are spiritual but not religious.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>There is a religious slump during emerging adulthood. But it does not seem fatal to their faith.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So what is the religious life of emerging adults today? What about its affiliations, practices, beliefs and experiences? What Smith and Snell discovered in their fantastic new book: Souls in Transition: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults&nbsp;&nbsp;will be of use to all pastors and churches. Frankly, I&#8217;m surprised by the lack of comments&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Souls in Transition 5 - Jesus Creed<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2010\/01\/souls-in-transition-5.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Souls in Transition 5 - Jesus Creed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"So what is the religious life of emerging adults today? 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