Religiousness in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood

Barry, Carolyn McNamara; Nelson, Lowry; Abo‐Zena, Mona M.

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“…Religious socialization processes include symbolic references and religious meaning, observing or modeling spiritual and religious behavior, engaging in family religious rituals and activities, curating elements of R/S in children's physical and social ecologies, and channeling children into social groups and contexts that support their religious identity (see Barry et al 2022;Cornwall 1988;Oman 2013;Stanford et al 2023).…”

Section: Religious Socialization Within Familiesmentioning

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Reflecting Personal, Family, and Community Ethnographies to Understand How Fasting Ramadan Fuels the Religious Development of Muslim Youth

Abo-Zena,

Hassan

2024

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As both a consequence of and a precursor to internalizing religious beliefs, engaging in religious rituals or behaviors and the meaning-making surrounding them fuels religious and spiritual development. Particularly for highly religious families, such rituals play a central role in family functioning and identity, often embedding families within broader religious communities. Engaging in collective practice and the meaning-making around them may contribute to resilience, particularly for religiously minoritized youth. Enhanced levels of coping and a sense of purpose or belonging may exist alongside resisting the orthopraxy and/or orthodoxy associated with religious beliefs and ritual practices, particularly ones that represent discordance between varying levels of a youth’s developmental contexts. Grounded in ethnographic and auto-ethnographic methods, this case study explores ritual worship during Ramadan, including fasting and congregational prayer, within a three-generation Muslim family. In particular, it describes how engaging in ritual practices affects developmental processes and outcomes and seeks to better understand how abstaining relates to transcendence and growth in purpose and generosity.

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Section: Religious Socialization Within Familiesmentioning

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Reflecting Personal, Family, and Community Ethnographies to Understand How Fasting Ramadan Fuels the Religious Development of Muslim Youth

Abo-Zena,

Hassan

2024

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“…Major theories of adolescent religious development (see Levesque, 2002) suggest three major themes (Barry et al, 2022). First, rules regarding participation in religious practices (e.g., prayer, membership in a religious community) promote the formation of a mother-structure which frames how youth relate to a higher power.…”

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“…Klingenberg and Sjö (2019) review how religious socialization has been conceptualized and researched, defining it as “the process in which an individual comes to hold preferences in relation to dimensions understood as religious in the surrounding context” (p. 174). Developmental psychology and family science scholars describe religious socialization processes, which include symbolic references and meaning making, observing spiritual and religious behavior models, engaging in religious rituals and activities, and channeling children into social groups and contexts that support religious identity (see Barry et al, 2022; Oman, 2013). In their study of intergenerational religious transmission, Smith and Adamczyk (2021) report that a majority of parents attempt to pass religion on to their children partly through “osmosis,” where religion is cultivated through indirect, everyday ways.…”

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Toward understanding developmental complexities of religiously minoritized youth

Abo-Zena

2024

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Fluid socio-cultural ecologies that reflect historical events and their actors have led to particular religious groups being promoted or persecuted. This article explores how religiously minoritized youth are identified considering local and global contexts. I apply a phenomenological variant of ecological systems theory (PVEST) to understanding regularities and variations in development through a person-centered, relational, holistic lens that considers the intersection of multiple identities. Relatedly, I outline broad conceptual tools that center on how orientations to in-group vs out-group religious and intersecting identities and related experiences align with a range of research methods to reflect such complexity. I suggest ways to study religious and spiritual influences of religiously minoritized youth that are specific to the faith tradition and particular youth’s circumstances in a holistic manner when these issues are a focal area of study, and when they emerge as relevant to other inquiries. Finally, I consider how understanding religiously minoritized youth, their peers, and mentors can be applied to educational, health care, and community settings to inform equitable practice and policy.

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Religiousness in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood

Cited by 2 publications

References 116 publications

Reflecting Personal, Family, and Community Ethnographies to Understand How Fasting Ramadan Fuels the Religious Development of Muslim Youth

Reflecting Personal, Family, and Community Ethnographies to Understand How Fasting Ramadan Fuels the Religious Development of Muslim Youth

Toward understanding developmental complexities of religiously minoritized youth

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