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Melinda Lundquist Denton
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Melinda Lundquist Denton is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Clemson University. She studies adolescents, families and religion. Her books include A Faith of Their Own: Stability and Change in the Religiosity of America’s Adolescents and Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers written with Christian Smith.

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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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