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Souls in Transition: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults - A Review

Published/Copyright: April 30, 2010
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Journal of College and Character
From the journal Journal of College and Character Volume 11 Issue 2

Souls in Transition: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults is a brilliant examination of the spiritual and religious lives of 18 – 23 year olds. Through vigorous quantitative and qualitative research, Christian Smith and Patricia Snell find that emerging adults, while no less religious than twentysomethings of previous generations, tend to have incongruous sets of beliefs and sets of behaviors. In addition, Smith and Snell, reveal that despite initially tepidity, emerging adults desire to have meaningful relationship with adults and that these relationships fortify religious beliefs and galvanize moral maturation. Souls in Transition is an important resource to higher education professionals who seek to understand the moral, religious and spiritual climate of today’s college student.

Published Online: 2010-4-30

©2011 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston

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  3. Invited Featured Article
  4. Addressing Religious Difference in Social Justice Education
  5. Defining Religious Pluralism: A Response to Robert McKim
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  13. The Importance of Staying Young: A Professor Reflects on Student Styles and Interests Today and Twenty Years Ago
  14. College Students and Political Engagement: Reigniting the Spark
  15. Best Practices
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  17. Do Character Education Programs in Sports Work? - A Three Year Assessment
  18. Ethical Issues on Campus
  19. Ethics of Mandatory Student Health Insurance
  20. Spirituality on Campus
  21. Is Dialogue Enough?
  22. New Scholars and Scholarship
  23. New Longitudinal Study of Teach for America Alumni's Civic Engagement: What's Enough of What Kind of Engagement?
  24. Civic Engagement on Campus
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  26. International Perspectives
  27. Internationalizing a Campus is World Wide
  28. What They're Reading
  29. Fostering the Moral and Spiritual Development of Emerging Adults: Introductory Commentary for What They're Reading
  30. Good Influence: Teaching the Wisdom of Adulthood
  31. Souls in Transition: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults - A Review
  32. Students' Reflections on Moral Conflicts in College
  33. Time: No More on Your Side Than on Anyone Else's
https://doi.org/10.2202/1940-1639.1232

Articles in the same Issue

  1. From the Editors
  2. How We Teach Character in College: A Retrospective on Some Recent Higher Education Initiatives That Promote Moral and Civic Learning
  3. Invited Featured Article
  4. Addressing Religious Difference in Social Justice Education
  5. Defining Religious Pluralism: A Response to Robert McKim
  6. Interfaith Interaction on Campus
  7. Peer Reviewed Article
  8. Higher Education Faculty and Student Perceptions of Classroom Incivility
  9. "Can I Major in Service-Learning?" An Empirical Analysis of Certificates, Minors, and Majors
  10. A New Me Generation? The Increasing Self-Interest among Millennial College Students
  11. Opinions and Perspectives
  12. From Florida State to Oxford: Character, the Rhodes Scholarship, and the Gap Year
  13. The Importance of Staying Young: A Professor Reflects on Student Styles and Interests Today and Twenty Years Ago
  14. College Students and Political Engagement: Reigniting the Spark
  15. Best Practices
  16. Pedagogical Considerations that May Encourage Character Development in a Distance Education Course
  17. Do Character Education Programs in Sports Work? - A Three Year Assessment
  18. Ethical Issues on Campus
  19. Ethics of Mandatory Student Health Insurance
  20. Spirituality on Campus
  21. Is Dialogue Enough?
  22. New Scholars and Scholarship
  23. New Longitudinal Study of Teach for America Alumni's Civic Engagement: What's Enough of What Kind of Engagement?
  24. Civic Engagement on Campus
  25. College Students, Creative Non-Violence and Social Enterprise: Community Service Changes with the Times
  26. International Perspectives
  27. Internationalizing a Campus is World Wide
  28. What They're Reading
  29. Fostering the Moral and Spiritual Development of Emerging Adults: Introductory Commentary for What They're Reading
  30. Good Influence: Teaching the Wisdom of Adulthood
  31. Souls in Transition: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults - A Review
  32. Students' Reflections on Moral Conflicts in College
  33. Time: No More on Your Side Than on Anyone Else's
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