Last but not least, James Fowler talks about the stages of faith which moves emerging adults past doctrine religion of childhood to a more flexible, postformal faith. The six stages of faith that he talks about are intuitive-projective faith which means faith is magical. Mythic literal faith is where an individual takes the myths and stories literally. Synthetic conventional faith, is conventional faith, which depends on a person’s feeling of whether it is right or wrong. Individual reflective faith is intellectual detachment from the values of their culture. Conjunctive faith incorporates powerful ideals and values. The last stage is universalizing faith whereby people have strong ideas about compassion, justice and love. In my earlier
