Reading Between the Lines: The Potential of Popular Young Adult Fiction in Adolescent Spiritual Formation

Reading Between the Lines: The Potential of Popular Young Adult Fiction in Adolescent Spiritual Formation

Popular culture is a powerful, shaping force in the lives of teenagers between the ages of fourteen through eighteen in the United States today. This dissertation argues the importance of popular fiction for adolescent spiritual formation and it investigates that importance by exploring the signifi...

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Main Author:	Kisner, Adrienne
Language:	en_US
Published:	2011
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/2144/1448

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