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Emerging adults show declining participation in organized religion and increasing spirituality, a finding that has occupied researchers for decades. This paper suggests that the source of this puzzling trend is the religious identity development emerging adults pursue. In order …

Muslim American youths are often confronted by negative stereotypes of their religion in the United States, making the process of religious identity formation for this group especially complicated. This dissertation explores the religious identity development of Muslim American …

Building on social psychological theories of identity, social networks, and religion, I developed and empirically tested a social network framework of civic and religious identity development among Muslim adolescents. In Chapter 2, I explore the social networks of Muslim high sc…