ABSTRACT
This chapter describes how 18–30-year-olds are accelerating a particularly American tradition of individualism as spiritual bricoleurs (Robert Wuthnow’s term). This creates a digital-streaming spirituality instead of an LP religion (terms defined in this chapter), which has a profound impact on how we conceptualize and experience whatever religion we bring to science and technology. Seemingly contradictory surveys (Smith, Scheitle, and Ecklund) demonstrate that emerging adults, fatigued by culture wars, sense a conflict in the conversation of the wider culture but seek reconciliation for themselves. Ten topics in science and religion—some stalwarts, some trending—close the chapter.
