Internal Diversity Among Spiritual But Not Religious Adolescents in the United States: A Person-Centered Examination Using Latent Class Analysis
Americans who self-identify as spiritual but not religious (SBNR) have increased in recent years. Existing studies of American religion often assume the SBNR as a homogeneous group. Recently some scholars suggest they are not all the same. Instead, SBNR people may differ in the pattern of religious...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer
[2018]
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| In: |
Review of religious research
Year: 2018, Volume: 60, Issue: 4, Pages: 435-453 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Young adult
/ SBNR
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy KBQ North America |
| Further subjects: | B
spiritual but not religious
B Adolescents B Latent Class Analysis |
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | Americans who self-identify as spiritual but not religious (SBNR) have increased in recent years. Existing studies of American religion often assume the SBNR as a homogeneous group. Recently some scholars suggest they are not all the same. Instead, SBNR people may differ in the pattern of religious practice, attitude, and affection. This study examines the heterogeneity of the SBNR using a person-centered approach of latent class analysis. We first identified four distinct types of SBNR adolescents in the Wave 2 data of the National Survey of Youth and Religion. Then, we explored how subgroups changed their religious identity over time by tracking them in Wave 3 data. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s13644-018-0350-9 |