Bibliograph

The next Mormons, how Millennials are changing the LDS church, Jana Riess

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The next Mormons, how Millennials are changing the LDS church, Jana Riess

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The next Mormons

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Jana Riess

Sub title

how Millennials are changing the LDS church

Summary

American Millennials--the generation born in the 1980s and 1990s--have been leaving organized religion in unprecedented numbers. For a long time, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was an exception: nearly three-quarters of people who grew up Mormon stayed that way into adulthood. In The Next Mormons, Jana Riess demonstrates that things are starting to change. The Next Mormons offers a portrait of a generation navigating between traditional religion and a rapidly changing culture

Table Of Contents

Introduction : the changing face of Mormonism in America -- Part one: Foundations. The continuity of religious belief -- Called to serve : adolescence and the missionary experience -- Rites of passage and the LDS temple -- Part two: Changing definitions of family and culture. Single Mormons in a married church -- Millennial women and shifting gender expectations -- Minority Mormons and racial attitudes -- Rainbow fault lines : LGBT inclusion -- Part three: Passages of faith and doubt. Navigating religious practice for a new generation -- Social and political views among current and former Mormons -- The realignment of Mormon religious authority -- Exodus : millennial former Mormons -- Conclusion : a Mormonism for the twenty-first century -- The 2016 Next Mormons Survey (by Benjamin Knoll with Jana Riess)

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