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Lisa D. Pearce and Melinda Lundquist Denton, 2024, A Faith of Their Own: Stability and Change in the Religiosity of America's Adolescents, Oxford University Press.
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Richard Flory, Korie Edwards, Brad Christerson, 2024, Growing Up in America: The Power of Race in the Lives of Teens, Stanford University Press.
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Kenda Creasy Dean, 2024, Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers Is Telling the American Church., Oxford University Press.
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Christian Smith with Patricia Smith, 2024, Souls in Transition: the Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults, Oxford University Press.
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Ken Johnson-Mondragon, ed., 2024, Pathways of Hope and Faith among Hispanic Teens: Pastoral Reflections and Strategies Inspired by the National Study of Youth and Religion. Stockton, CA: Instituto Fe y Vida.
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Mark D. Regnerus, 2024, Forbidden Fruit: Sex and Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers, Oxford University Press.
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Christian Smith with Melinda Lundquist Denton, 2024, Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers, Oxford University Press.
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The National Study of Youth and Religion, funded by Lilly Endowment Inc., is under the direction of Dr. Christian Smith, Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame, and Dr. Lisa Pearce, Assistant Professor of Sociology at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.