Although religion is not a particulary divisive topic of conversation, it is not something most emerging adults talk about with their friends or romantic partners. Whatever subjects friends do talk about, religious beliefs and interest are simply not among them--beyond perhaps finding out that someone is Catholic or Jewish. For most emerging adults, that is because religion is simply not important or relevant enough to everyday life to warrant any real discussion. In that, religion is like favorite family recipes: people often have them and may even love them, but they don't necessarily want to discuss them.
page 153. Souls in Transition: The Religious & Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults by Christian Smith w/ Patricia Snell.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
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man that is really saddening. it just speaks that there needs to be a revival, but not where we think there needs to be one, not in the younger adults but in the older adults that just slipped past the church and the truth. it also speaks into the importance of speaking into college students now, so that we they become older they are comfortable having these conversations with their friends and partners, im glad you are working on this topic jeff, its a place and topic that we christians need to have our eyes opened.
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