Christian Smith is Stuart Chapin Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of Moral, Believing Animals (OUP, 2003) and co-author of Divided by Faith (OUP, 2000). Melinda Lundquist Denton is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

The National Survey of Youth and Religion is comprehensive and reliable research and will be central for the consideration of teenage spirituality and religion and a starting point for future research.

• Introduction 1: Two Baptist Girls 2: Mapping the Big Picture 3: Spiritual Seekers, the Disengaged, and Religiously Devoted Teens 4: God, Religion, Whatever-Out of the Mouths of Teens 5: Teenage Religion in Social Context 6: Religion and Adolescent Outcomes 6: Conclusion

Christian Smith is Stuart Chapin Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of Moral, Believing Animals (OUP, 2003) and co-author of Divided by Faith (OUP, 2000). Melinda Lundquist Denton is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

The National Survey of Youth and Religion is comprehensive and reliable research and will be central for the consideration of teenage spirituality and religion and a starting point for future research.

• Introduction 1: Two Baptist Girls 2: Mapping the Big Picture 3: Spiritual Seekers, the Disengaged, and Religiously Devoted Teens 4: God, Religion, Whatever-Out of the Mouths of Teens 5: Teenage Religion in Social Context 6: Religion and Adolescent Outcomes 6: Conclusion

Christian Smith is Stuart Chapin Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of Moral, Believing Animals (OUP, 2003) and co-author of Divided by Faith (OUP, 2000). Melinda Lundquist Denton is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

The National Survey of Youth and Religion is comprehensive and reliable research and will be central for the consideration of teenage spirituality and religion and a starting point for future research.

• Introduction 1: Two Baptist Girls 2: Mapping the Big Picture 3: Spiritual Seekers, the Disengaged, and Religiously Devoted Teens 4: God, Religion, Whatever-Out of the Mouths of Teens 5: Teenage Religion in Social Context 6: Religion and Adolescent Outcomes 6: Conclusion