9/11’s spiritual effect found to be short-lived among American young adults

Although the events of September 11 were often reported to strengthen spirituality among many Americans, a recent study finds only modest and short-lived effects on young adults’ religious and spiritual lives after the attacks. The study was presented at the Association for Sociology of Religion meeting in Boston in August, which Religioscope attended. The study, conducted by Jeremy E. Uecker (University of Texas at Austin) and which is to be published in the September issue of the journal Sociological Spectrum, used longitudinal research of 20,745 American adolescents from 1994 to 1995 and then again from July, 2001 to May, 2002. Read Article

By Richard Cimino