Mapping American adolescent religious participation
Mapping American adolescent religious participation
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DOI：
10.1111/1468-5906.00148
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发表时间：
2002-12-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Regnerus, M
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作者：
Smith, C;Denton, ML;Regnerus, M
令人惊讶的是，社会学家对美国青少年的宗教生活知之甚少。本文首先通过检查最近三项著名的美国青少年全国调查中关于青少年宗教参与的描述性发现，来纠正这种不幸的知识缺乏。我们提供了青年宗教参与三个基本方面的描述性统计数据：宗教信仰、宗教仪式出席率和参与教会青年团体。我们还研究了性别、种族、年龄和地区对这些宗教结果的影响。这种描述性调查应有助于加深对美国青少年宗教参与的基本信息的更广泛理解并奠定基础。需要进一步的研究来调查不同宗教信仰对美国年轻人生活的各种结果的社会影响。
Sociologists know surprisingly little about the religious lives of adolescents in the United States. This article begins to redress that unfortunate lack of knowledge by examining descriptive findings on adolescent religious participation from three recent, reputable national surveys of American youth. We present descriptive statistics on three fundamental aspects of youth religious participation: religious affiliation, religious service attendance, and involvement in church youth groups. We also examine the influences of gender, race, age, and region on these religious outcomes. This descriptive inquiry should help to heighten broader understanding of and to lay down a baseline of essential information about American adolescent religious participation. Further research is needed to investigate the social influence of different kinds of religiosity on various outcomes in the lives of American youth.