Lisa D. Pearce
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Lisa D. Pearce is Associate Professor of Sociology, and a Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She studies religion and families in the U.S. and Nepal. Her books include A Faith of Their Own: Stability and Change in the Religiosity of America’s Adolescents and Mixed Method Data Collection Strategies.

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What Being Religious Really Means To Young People

Posted January 14, 2011 | 07:10:44 (EST)

Are you religious? What criteria come to mind in answering that question? When evaluating how "religious" someone is, social scientists and the general public tend to rely on the frequency of religious activities, strength or type of religious beliefs, relative importance of religion in one's life, or some average of...

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