Back-pocket God : religion and spirituality in the lives of emerging adults / Melinda Lundquist Denton, Richard Flory and Christian Smith.
2020
BL625.47 .D46 2020
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Title
Back-pocket God : religion and spirituality in the lives of emerging adults / Melinda Lundquist Denton, Richard Flory and Christian Smith.
ISBN
9780190064815 (electronic book)
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (304 pages).
Call Number
BL625.47 .D46 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification
200.8420973
Summary
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.
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Access limited to authorized users.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 31, 2020).
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Oxford scholarship online.
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Print version: 9780190064785
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