Never Saw It Coming

Abstract

This is a book that will be of interest to scholars of U.S. religion and culture and to scholars of emerging adulthood. It would be useful i undergraduate sociology courses in U.S. religion, in sociology of religion, or sociology of c lture. It would be useful in graduate courses in these areas, as well, but only if coupled with other sources on emerging adulthood and religious commitment in the United States, so that students could assess for themselves the interpretive arguments about the implications of the patterns of belief and behavior that Smith describes so evocatively.