250 - Section on Sociology of Religion Paper Session. Religion, Youth, and Inequality

Session Submission Type: Paper Session

Abstract

Religiosity has been found to play a complex role in its relationship with social inequality. Youth, adolescents, and emerging adults have social experiences in explicitly-religious settings and/or are influenced by the role that religion plays in various institutions they encounter. Presenters in this session discuss the relationship between religiosity (i.e. belonging to a particular religious denomination, having personal religious faith, being a religious “none,” and growing up in a cultural milieu that is shaped by both religious and non-religious influences) and inequality (i.e. educational settings, political rights, work and romantic aspirations, and personal/psychological well-being).

Sub Unit

• Section on Sociology of Religion / Religion, Youth, and Inequality

Session Organizer

• Patricia Snell Herzog, University of Arkansas

Individual Presentations

• Situated Spirituality and Social Health: Religious Engagement and Well-being across Cultural Boundaries - Nicholas G. Cragoe, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Elise A. G. Duwe, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Margaret S. Kelley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Mental Disorders Among Nonreligious Adolescents - Heather Kugelmass, Princeton University; Alfredo Garcia, Princeton University

• Contested Identities, Contested Rights: Education, Religion, and the Politics of Governance - Matty Lichtenstein, University of California-Berkeley

• Searching for the Good Life: Religion, Social Class, and the Aspirations of Emerging Adults - Hilary Davidson, University of Notre Dame