Date of Award
Fall 12-1-2024
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Teaching and Learning
First Advisor
Linda Sperry
Second Advisor
Ryan Donlan
Third Advisor
Jay Howard
Abstract
Young adults are disaffiliating themselves from organized religion (Hout & Fischer, 2014). This study investigates the impact of social media use on religious identity, teaching, and learning. Social media use is changing young adults as individuals in worldview and perspective, spirituality, religion, and personal lifestyle (Schaeffer, 2019). Messages devised for young adults by Christian ministers for discipleship in teaching and instruction are inharmonious with young adults and their personal views of the world, how to live, and religion (Pew Research Center, 2019). The continued existence of religious teaching, congregant replenishment, and practice of the organized institutional Christian church within society hangs in the balance as people under the age of 30 are disaffiliating, using social media to learn, and creating their own spiritual identities apart from organized religion (Berger & Ezzy, 2009; Hout & Smith, 2015; Pew Research Center, 2019; Regnerus & Uecker, 2006; Sweeney, 2001).
Recommended Citation
Short, White Dove Bryant Beethoven Keith, "The Interplay of COVID 19, Organized Religion, and Social Media: “how Can I Be the Person I Feel I Need to Be?”" (2024). All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 3145.
https://scholars.indianastate.edu/etds/3145
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