Television, Pop Culture and the Drift from Christianity during Adolescence

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Abstract
While previous research has mapped independently the two phenomena of adolescent drift from Christianity and growing affiliation to teenage pop culture, the present study explores the relationship between these two trends among a sample of 5,432 pupils between the ages of eleven and fifteen years. The new data confirm both trends, but indicate that these two trends operate independently of each other. In other words, there is no evidence to suggest that the churches should be suspicious of teenage pop culture in fostering or accelerating adolescent religious disaffection.