Drift from the Churches: Attitude Toward Christianity During Childhood and Adolescence (Religion, Culture and Society)

Twenty-five years of empirical psychological and sociological research on young people in relation to Christianity is presented here in a set of interrelated studies which show how attitude toward Christianity in young people is linked with schooling, cognitive development, masculinity and femininity, church attendance, religious experience, science, well-bering, mental health and the Eysenckian model of personality. Specialists and undergraduates is psychology, education and religion will find this volume stimulating, as will all those who work with young people in the fields of education or religion. The appendices provide a helpful key to the research methods employed in the measurement of attitude.