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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Auteurs: Tong, Yunping (Auteur) ; Yang, Fenggang 1962- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Springer [2018]
Dans: Review of religious research
Année: 2018, Volume: 60, Numéro: 4, Pages: 435-453
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B USA / Jeune adulte / SBNR
RelBib Classification:AD Sociologie des religions
KBQ Amérique du Nord
Sujets non-standardisés:B spiritual but not religious
B Adolescents
B Latent Class Analysis
Accès en ligne: Volltext (Verlag)
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Résumé: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.
ISSN:2211-4866
Contient:Enthalten in: Review of religious research
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s13644-018-0350-9