Includes index.

Contents:

" Introduction : youth and the continuity of religious traditions / James L. Heft -- National and international overviews. Looking for God : religious indifference in perspective / Melchor Sa?nchez de Toca. Journeys of faith : meeting the challenges in twenty-first-century America / Nancy Ammerman -- Three recent national studies. Is moralistic therapeutic deism the new religion of American youth? : implications for the challenge of religious socialization and reproduction / Christian Smith. The "interior" lives of American college students : preliminary findings from a national study / Jennifer A. Lindholm. Congregations that get it : understanding religious identities in the next generation / Tobin Belzer ... [et al.] -- Passing on the faith to the next generation of Jews. BJ : a portrait of a revitalized synagogue / J. Rolando Matalon. Current expressions of American Jewish identity : an analysis of 114 teenagers / Philip Schwadel -- Passing on the faith to the next generation of Christians. A spiritual crossroads of Europe : the Taize? community's adventure with the young / Brother John of Taize?. Religious identity and belonging amidst diversity and pluralism : challenges and opportunities for church and theology / Peter C. Phan -- Passing on the faith to the next generation of Muslims. Identity and community in a new generation : the Muslim community in the early seventh century and today / Ghada Osman. Making safe space for questioning for young American Muslims / Amira Quraishi. Second-generation Muslim immigrants in Detroit mosques : the second generation's search for their place and identity in the American mosque / Ihsan Bagby -- Two evaluations of the research. The leisure of worship and the worship of leisure / Jack Miles. Teach your children well : closing observations on constructing religious identity in the next generation / Diane Winston.