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CURRENT NEWS
. SOULS IN TRANSITION ' The Religious & Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults
. Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers by Christian Smith with Melinda Lundquist Denton, has now sold more than 20,000 copies!
. The NSYR is proud to announce the PAPERBACK publication of Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers, by Christian Smith with Melinda Lundquist-Denton.
. Recent Publications Using NSYR Data
. NSYR Releases Major Report on Wave 2 Findings
. NSYR Wave 1 Telephone Survey Data Now Publicly Available
. Forbidden Fruit: Sex and Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers, by Mark Regnerus, published by Oxford University Press
. SOUL SEARCHING, a Movie about Teenagers and God, to be Released This Spring
. NSYR Wave 3 Funded: Following Youth into Emerging Adulthood
. Sessions Organized by the NSYR at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
. Data collection for the second wave of the National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR) is now complete
. Parents' Religion and Talking to Teens about Sex
. Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers by Christian Smith with Melinda Lundquist Denton, Oxford University Press
. NSYR Releases Major Report on Protestant Teens
. New Report on Catholic Youth by the National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry
. NSYR Becomes Longitudinal: Following Teens into Young Adulthood
. Religion and the Paranormal
. Teens Exploring TV's "Vast Wasteland"
. Teen Participation in Religious Mission Teams or Service Projects Examined
. NSYR Co-investigator's Article Published in Social Forces
. Few U.S. Protestant Teens Regularly Read the Bible
. Few Jewish Families with Teenagers Regularly Talk Together About Religious or Spiritual Matters
. U.S. Teenagers' Involvement in Religious Summer Camps
. NSYR Completes Personal Interviews Data Collection
. Does Religion Shape Movie Viewing Habits for Teens?
. NSYR Releases Sixth Preliminary Report
. The Internet: A Resource for Religious Teens
. The Internet: More Popular than God?
. NSYR Releases Survey Instrument
. NSYR Sociologists to Present at the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Annual Meeting
. Sociologists Find That Religiously Active Families Tend to Have Stronger Family Relationships
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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.