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Trade Review“I offer a health warning life will be much simpler for you if you don’t read this book. But if you do you will quickly realise that things have got to change in our Church and this change will have to go deep and will turn long held assumptions upside down. I am struggling to think of a more important book that will be published this year. Ruth Perrin’s research is quite simply a game changer. “ -- Pete Ward, Durham University, UK
"The literature on millennials and GenZ can only be summed up as divergent. Some herald these coming and arrived generations as the most important, talented, and reflective people the western world has yet to produce. Others, with the same amount of letters behind their names and CVs populated with the same number of publications, call them the sign of the apocalypse, those bringing a death to our culture and even more dire assertions. It’s into this environment that Ruth Perrin offers her insightful (and very well researched) Changing Shape: The Faith Lives of Millennials. This is a book that promises to help all pastors, parents, and others looking for a balanced and faithful description of these younger generations. It's a helpful resource all interested in young people should study." -- Andrew Root, Professor of Youth and Family Ministry Luther Seminary and author of 'The Pastor in a Secular Age.'
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Millennial Faith in Britain ix Part 1 Setting the Scene – Being an Emerging Adult 1 Bucking the Trend: Emerging Adults Who Resist the Secularization Narrative 3 2 The Privilege and Pressure of Emerging Adulthood: Economics and Health 26 3 Relational Realities: Friends and Family 61 4 Relational Realities: Romance and Parenthood 81 Part 2 Changing Shape – How Emerging Adult Faith Develops 5 Emerging into Adult Faith: What Shapes Millennial Belief? 121 6 Losing Faith: ‘I Don’t Call Myself a Christian Anymore’ 156 7 The Disenchanted 176 8 Reshaped Faith 205 Conclusion 9 What Now? 233 Bibliography and Further Reading 248 Index of Names and Subjects 251
