Emerging Adults’ Religious and Spiritual Development

Barry, Carolyn McNamara; Abo‐Zena, Mona M.

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“…Emerging adulthood has already been referred to in the research literature as a period during which religious individuals tend to take a moratorium from religious participation (Barry and Abo‐Zena ; Whitney and Ebstyne King ). However, the use of this term in the present article is more far reaching; it references the manner in which RZ singles view singlehood as a period during which they are on a moratorium from strict observance of certain commandments and more generally from the RZ script for coming of age.…”

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“…Emerging adulthood has also been described as a period of spiritual growth and meaning making (Barry and Abo‐Zena ); indeed, religious beliefs remain important for RZ singles, but the difficulties they face after graduating post‐high‐school‐level theological institutions and colleges as independent singles in a “family values,” marriage‐oriented religious society encumber and add much emotional stress to this putative growth process.…”

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“…Researchers have coined various terms, with overlapping meanings, in order to describe this new stage of the lifecycle: “emerging adulthood” is used to denote young men and women aged 18–29 regardless of their marital status (Arnett ; Barry and Abo‐Zena ; Smith ). “Young adulthood” and “late adolescence,” however, as used by researchers (du Bois‐Reymond ; Heath ), seem to be more flexible regarding age and connote a lifestyle that is related to singlehood, and thus are better suited for present purposes.…”

Section: The Cultural Context Of Prolonged Singlehood: Young Adulthoomentioning

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“…Although there is a dearth of research focusing specifically on the religiosity of singles past college age, recently a few works concentrating on the religious life of emerging adults, most of who are in fact single, have been published (Barry and Abo‐Zena ; Smith ). As explained above, the term “emerging adulthood” is used to refer to individuals no older than 29.…”

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Religious Zionist Singles: Caught Between “Family Values” and “Young Adulthood”

Engelberg

2016

Scientific Study of Religion

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In current Religious Zionist society, marriage and family are considered sacred values that stand in opposition to the sexual liberalism that believers associate with secular society. Religious Zionists are encouraged to marry in their early 20s; those who fail to follow this societal script find themselves facing social and religious challenges. This article, based upon ethnographic research and in-depth interviews with RZ singles, examines the contexts of this phenomenon as well as the actual effect of prolonged singlehood upon the religiosity of singles. Singles' distance from traditional synagogue-based communities and their tendency to form closed networks of friends with other Religious Zionists (RZs), both of which are typical during young adulthood, were found to impact their religiosity. It was also found that many singles consider their religiosity to be flawed. This is explained as resulting from both the drawing force of Western youth culture and from feelings of loneliness and anomy experienced by singles. Their central strategy for dealing with the arising tension is compartmentalization-viewing singlehood as a period during which a moratorium from strict religious observance is acceptable.

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Section: The Cultural Context Of Prolonged Singlehood: Young Adulthoomentioning

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Religious Zionist Singles: Caught Between “Family Values” and “Young Adulthood”

Engelberg

2016

Scientific Study of Religion

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“…In some settings it means being in your late teens or early twenties, with few caring responsibilities. These are the young adults to which the concept 'emerging adults' can best be applied (Arnett, 2000(Arnett, , 2004Barry & Abo-Zena, 2014). They are no longer adolescents, but also not grown-ups.…”

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Beyond the Secular, the Religious and the Spiritual: Appreciating the Complexity of Contemporary Worldviews

Nynäs

Keysar

Shterin

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The Diversity of Worldviews Among Young Adults

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The chapter brings together the main insights from the Young Adults and Religion in a Global Perspective (YARG) study, as presented in the current volume. It starts by discussing the sample used in the study and in the chapters of the volume; after this, the findings about worldviews are explored, and the chapter concludes with some observations pertaining to methodology. Throughout the chapter, the focus is on the need to challenge the often taken for granted categories and perspectives that are projected onto the world in the Study of Religions, and it is suggested that there are important methodological implications involved in meeting this challenge.

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Young Adults as a Social Category: Findings from an International Study in Light of Developmental and Cohort Perspectives

Klingenberg

Sjö²,

Moberg

2022

The Diversity of Worldviews Among Young Adults

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The purpose of this chapter is to provide an overview of the basic characteristics of the university students who have participated in the Young Adults and Religion in a Global Perspective (YARG) project, as mirrored in the survey data, and to discuss the findings in light of theoretical assumptions about young adults. The chapter provides an introduction to two prevalent research perspectives on youth: a developmental perspective, and a cohort perspective. Background statistics as well as the main findings on religion are then discussed in light of these perspectives. The respondents’ age, civil state and relational commitments are analyzed from a developmental perspective, which assumes similarity on behalf of young adults as a consequence of their age. Furthermore, findings on values and media use are presented in order to explore whether the survey data provides support for the participants forming a generation, the main tenet of a cohort perspective, in terms of sharing values and media habits. The concluding section discusses the extent to which higher education sets university students apart from the youth population in generally, as reflected in the YARG data. The chapter therefore provides a first glimpse into who the participants are, and what the categorization of them as young adults entails.

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Emerging Adults’ Religious and Spiritual Development

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Religious Zionist Singles: Caught Between “Family Values” and “Young Adulthood”

Religious Zionist Singles: Caught Between “Family Values” and “Young Adulthood”

Beyond the Secular, the Religious and the Spiritual: Appreciating the Complexity of Contemporary Worldviews

Young Adults as a Social Category: Findings from an International Study in Light of Developmental and Cohort Perspectives

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