Description Today\'s twentysomethings have been labeled the "lost generation" for their presumed inability to identify and lead fulfilling lives, "kidults" for their alleged refusal to "grow up" and accept adult responsibilities, and the "least Religious generation" for their purported disinterest in religion and spirituality.
She is the author of Crossing the Ethnic Divide: The Multiethnic Church on a Mission and editor of Death and Religion in a Changing World..
Kathleen Garces-Foley is Professor of Religious Studies at Marymount University.
He is the author of The Purposeful Graduate: Why Colleges Must Talk to Students about Vocation and The First Year Out: Understanding American Teens after High School.
About the Author Tim Clydesdale is Professor of Sociology at the College of New Jersey.
Drawing from interviews with more than 200 Young adults, as well as national survey of 1, 880 twentysomethings, Tim Clydesdale and Kathleen Garces-Foley seek to change the way we view contemporary Young adults, giving an accurate and refreshing Understanding of their religious, spiritual, and Secular lives.
Still others sideline religion and spirituality until their Lives get settled, or reject organized religion completely.
Others reject their childhood religion to explore alternatives and practice a personal spirituality.
Some prioritize faith and involvement in a Religious congregation.
The Twentysomething Soul tells an optimistic story about American twentysomethings by introducing readers to the full spectrum of American Young adults, many of whom live purposefully, responsibly, and reflectively.
These characterizations are not only unflattering -- they are wrong.
Description Today\'s twentysomethings have been labeled the "lost generation" for their presumed inability to identify and lead fulfilling lives, "kidults" for their alleged refusal to "grow up" and accept adult responsibilities, and the "least Religious generation" for their purported disinterest in religion and spirituality
