Religious Loyalty, Defection, and Experimentation among College Youth
Recent data from polls suggest a trend away from conventional religion among college youth and impressionistic evidence indicates some stirrings of new forms of religion. A survey of Berkeley students provides an opportunity to examine the nature and sources of religious loyalty, defection and exper...
| Published in: | Journal for the scientific study of religion |
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| Authors: | ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[1973]
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Journal for the scientific study of religion
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| Further subjects: | B
Atheism
B Judaism B Radicalism B Experimentation B Protestantism B Catholicism B Cognition B College students |
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| Summary: | Recent data from polls suggest a trend away from conventional religion among college youth and impressionistic evidence indicates some stirrings of new forms of religion. A survey of Berkeley students provides an opportunity to examine the nature and sources of religious loyalty, defection and experimentation. The analysis shows that religious experimentation is not an isolated phenomenon but is rooted in broader cultural disaffection and is closely associated with other kinds of countercultural behavior. Among the sources of religious defection examined, cognitive sophistication and several types of psychological stress seem to be the most significant factors. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-5906 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/1384887 |