Souls in Transition: The Religious & Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults (Oxford University Press. 2009) is chock-full of insights and all the graphs and tables you could ask for. Some of the most significant to me were the commentary on emerging adult culture — which the authors saw as governed by an intuitional morality — one just knows what is right for oneself but is also characteristically free-wheeling in terms of alcohol consumption, sexual hook-ups, risky behaviors and often a lack of clear purpose. Of course, not all are like this — there are those who continue to adhere to religious beliefs, who generally both abstain or limit such behaviors and are much more engaged in altruistic behaviors like giving, volunteering, etc. [Read more…] about Book Review: Souls in Transition