Sociologists know very little about the religious lives of the current generation of American adolescents. This study provides an updated portrait of adolescent religious commitment and direct tests of religious change across cohorts by comparing data from the 2017–2018 National Survey of Moral Formation to the 2002–2003 National Study of Youth and Religion. There has been a significant growth in the percentage of adolescents who are not at all religious (by multiple measures). There has been a less substantial decline in the percentage of adolescents who are highly religious. Changes in religiosity have occurred across sociodemographic groups, though not always at the same rate, resulting in new patterns across gender, race, regional, and socioeconomic lines on some aspects of religiosity. Despite declines in religiosity, however, parental transmission of religion is similar to what it was in the previous generation. The decline in adolescent religiosity, notably, reflects a decline in parental religiosity.

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还在寻找灵魂吗？重新规划青少年的宗教承诺

社会学家对当代美国青少年的宗教生活知之甚少。本研究通过比较 2017-2018 年全国道德形成调查和 2002-2003 年全国青年与宗教研究的数据，提供了青少年宗教信仰的最新描述以及跨群体宗教变化的直接测试。完全不信教的青少年比例显着增加（通过多种衡量标准）。高度宗教信仰的青少年比例下降幅度较小。不同社会人口群体的宗教信仰发生了变化，尽管变化速度并不总是相同，导致宗教信仰某些方面跨越性别、种族、地区和社会经济界限出现了新的模式。然而，尽管宗教信仰有所下降，父母对宗教的传承与上一代相似。值得注意的是，青少年宗教信仰的下降反映了父母宗教信仰的下降。