"Religious-Lite": A Phenomenon and Its Relevance to the Debate on Identity Development and Emerging Adulthood

Autor/inn/en	Hadad, Talia; Schachter, Elli
Titel	"Religious-Lite": A Phenomenon and Its Relevance to the Debate on Identity Development and Emerging Adulthood
Quelle	In: Journal of Youth Studies, 14 (2011) 8, S.853-869 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1367-6261
DOI	10.1080/13676261.2011.616487
Schlagwörter	Qualitative Research; Jews; Youth; Self Disclosure (Individuals); Self Concept; Identification (Psychology); Religious Factors; Individualism; Developmental Stages; Labeling (of Persons); Foreign Countries; Israel + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Qualitative Forschung; Jew; Jude; Jüdin; Juden; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Jugendalter; Selbstkonzept; Individualismus; Labeling-Ansatz; Ausland
Abstract	This article presents a qualitative study of Israeli Jewish youth who self-identify as "religious-lite"--intended to uncover the reasons youth choose to define themselves using a non-institutionalized, somewhat dissonant identity label. Eighteen participants aged 22-29 were administered in-depth interviews regarding their deliberations as to preferred identity. Analysis reveals that participants rejected major aspects of the modern identity project yet paradoxically adopt an identity label they view as enabling them to benefit from aspects of relational and intra-psychic coherence that it nevertheless provides. Furthermore, "religious-lite" was seen as a temporary identity fitting their specific life-stage of emerging adulthood, though not inferior to consonant identities they envisioned they would adopt in adulthood. We discuss this phenomenon in the context of recent debates on identity's psychological structural change during the now extended transition to adulthood, and the debate on emerging adulthood as a developmental stage. (Contains 1 note.) (As Provided).
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