Today’s young adults may be a mystery to many religious leaders, but one thing about them is clear: Compared with young adults of the preceding generation, fewer go to church. Thirty-one percent of young American adults attended religious services regularly in the 1970s; 25 percent attended in 2000. This decline has cost communities of faith 6.3 million young-adult members— (...)
October 10, 2008
Books
Exit Signs
After the Baby BoomersHow Twenty- and Thirty-Somethings Are Shaping the Future of American ReligionRobert WuthnowPrinceton University Press, $29.95, 312 pp.
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