Emerging Adults' Religiousness and Spirituality

Carolyn McNamara Barry is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Loyola University Maryland. She serves on the editorial boards for the International Journal for Behavioral Development and the Journal of Youth and Adolescence. Dr. Barry is a Member at-Large for the Society for the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality.Mona M. Abo-Zena is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Brown University. Her expertise is in the areas of religion and identity development of diverse populations and is informed by over 15 years of applied experiences in schools as a teacher, administrator, and board member. She is also currently working on a co-edited volume entitled The Development of Immigrant-Origin Children and Youth: A Contextual Approach.

• Series Foreword ; Foreword by Christian Smith ; Acknowledgments ; About the Editors ; Contributors ; Part I: Introduction ; 1. Seeing the Forest and the Trees: How Emerging Adults Navigate Meaning-Making ; Carolyn McNamara Barry and Mona M. Abo-Zena ; Part 2: Foundational Perspectives ; 2. Emerging Adults' Religious and Spiritual Development ; Carolyn McNamara Barry and Mona M. Abo-Zena ; 3. Potential Benefits and Detriments of Religiousness and Spirituality to Emerging Adults ; Gina Magyar-Russell, Paul J. Deal, and Iain Tucker Brown ; Part 3: Contexts and Socializing Agents in Emerging Adults' Religious and Spiritual Lives ; 4. The Role of Parents in the Religious and Spiritual Development of Emerging Adults ; Larry J. Nelson ; 5. The Role of Peer Relationships in Emerging Adults' Religiousness and Spirituality ; Carolyn McNamara Barry and Jennifer L. Christofferson ; 6. Faith in the Digital Age: Emerging Adults' Religious Mosaics and Media Practices ; Piotr S. Bobkowski ; 7. The Law's Promise of Religious Freedom to Support Emerging Adults' Religious Development and Experiences ; Roger J. R. Levesque ; 8. Religious Congregations and Communities ; William B. Whitney and Pamela Ebstyne King ; 9. Changing Souls: Higher Education's Influence upon the Religious Lives of Emerging Adults ; Perry L. Glanzer, Jonathan Hill, and Todd C. Ream ; Part 4: Variations ; 10. Gender, Religiousness, and Spirituality in Emerging Adulthood ; Jacqueline S. Mattis ; 11. The Roles of Religiousness and Spirituality in the Sexual Lives of Heterosexual Emerging Adults ; Tara M. Stoppa, Graciela Espinosa-Hernandez, and Meghan M. Gillen ; 12: Sexual Minorities ; Geoffrey L. Ream and Eric M. Rodriguez ; 13: Religion, Spirituality, and Emerging Adults: Processing Meaning through Culture, Context and Social Position ; Mona M. Abo-Zena and Sameera Ahmed ; 14: Nonreligious and Atheist Emerging Adults ; Luke W. Galen ; Part 5: Conclusion ; 15: Reflections on the Long and Winding Road of Meaning-Making ; Mona M. Abo-Zena and Carolyn McNamara Barry ; Index

provides an excellent resource for scholars and practitioners to gain an overview of emerging adults and their meaning-making processes.