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Young Catholic America: Emerging Adults In, Out Of, and Gone From the Church by Christian Smith; Kyle Longest; Jonathan Hill; and Kari Christoffersen
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Publication Date: 2014
This book based on the groundbreaking National Study of Youth and Religion explores a crucial stage in the life of Catholics. Drawing on in-depth surveys and interviews of Catholics and ex-Catholics ages 18 to 23 - a demographic commonly known as early "emerging adulthood" - leading sociologist Christian Smith and his colleagues offer a wealth of insight into the wide variety of religious practices and beliefs among young Catholics today, the early influences and life-altering events that lead them to embrace the Church or abandon it, and how being Catholic affects them as they become full-fledged adults.

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