In american studies, religiosity generally declines from adolescence through emerging adulthood.

Although religion clearly is important to many American adolescents, the directors of the NYSRconcluded that it has a lower priority for most of them than may other parts of their livesincluding school, friendships, media and workfor most US teenagers religion has a smallplace at the end of the table for a short period of time each week (if that)-furthermore, the religious beliefs of American adolescents do not tend to follow traditionaldoctrines and they often know little about the doctrine of the religion they claim to follow andinstead embrace a general set of beliefs called “Moralistic Therapeutic Deism”includes thebelief that God wants us to be good people and to feel good about ourselves as well as a generaldeistic belief in God rather than embracing a strict doctrine of any particular denominationFor most Americans today religion is not so much about traditional ideas of sin, grace, andredemption as it is about how to be a good person and feel happyMany American adolescents are religious, but many others are not—What explains differencesamong adolescents in their religiosity?

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the relatively high rate of religiosity among African American adolescents helps explain whythey have such low rates of alcohol and drug useHowever, it is not only among minority groups that religiosity is associated with favorableadolescent outcomesacross American cultures, adolescents who are more religious report lessdepression and lower rates of premarital sex, drug use, and delinquent behavior- the protective value of religious involvement is especially strong for adolescents living in theworst neighborhoods- religious adolescents tend to have better relationships with their parents both with mothers andfathers and are also more likely than other adolescents to perform volunteer service to theircommunity- in other cultures, religious involvement has been found to also be related to a variety of positiveoutcomes (example- among Indonesian-Muslim adolescents)In American research, religious development is often portrayed as an individualistic process inwhich adolescents and emerging adults decide what their beliefs will be from a range of options,however, worldwide, religious development is something that involves the whole communityOne contrast to the individualistic process of religious development in the American majority

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