{"id":5300,"date":"2010-01-22T00:07:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T00:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2010\/01\/souls-in-transition-8.html"},"modified":"2010-01-22T00:07:04","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T00:07:04","slug":"souls-in-transition-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2010\/01\/souls-in-transition-8.html","title":{"rendered":"Souls in Transition 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Smith.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>In this last post on Smith and Snell’s book, Souls in Transition: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults<\/a>\"\" <\/strong><\/em> I want to draw attention to a major, major suggestion.<\/p>\n

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What do you think we can do about the conclusions below?<\/b>
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The issue pertains to the presence and influence of adults on the faith of emerging adults as they transition from teenage years to adult years.<\/div>\n
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“Emerging adulthood tends to both raise the stakes on and remove social support for being seriously religious.” That is, “in the name of individual autonomy — informed here by a cultural myth that is sociologically erroneous — the usually most crucial players [parents, adults] in teenagers’ lives disengage from them precisely when they most need conversation partners to help sort through these weighty matters” (284).<\/div>\n
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“Most adolescents in fact still very badly want want the loving input and engagement of their parents … They simply want that input and engagement on renegotiated grounds that take seriously their growing maturity and desired independence” (284). <\/div>\n
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Thus, “even as the formation of faith and life play out in the lives of 18- to 23-year-olds, when  it comes to religion, parents are in fact hugely<\/i> important” (285).<\/div>\n
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This means adults, especially parents, are one of the most important factors in emerging adult faith — and our culture is urging us to “let them go” and they neither want to be let go and need for parental and adult involvement — though, and here’s the kicker — in a new way that respects the adult-ishness of the emerging adult.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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