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The period of adolescence is somewhat naturally marked off by the facts at hand as extending from 10 or 11 years to the age of 24 or 25. This agrees only fairly well with the common use of the term. It is the custom to regard puberty as the index of the beginning of adolescence. Adolescence is, in some respects, the most interesting period from the standpoint of religious development, as from every other point of view. It is the great formative period. The whole religious history of adolescence, as it pictures itself in the cases before us, is too large and complex to grasp except in fragments. Now one stream of tendency, and now another, arises in bold relief and reveals the forces at work in human life. Certain aspects of adolescence will consequently be taken up in turn, and will be seen later falling into harmony. The sections of this chapter examine the Period of Clarification and the phenomena of Spontaneous Awakenings. Having now before us all the available data in regard to the age of religious awakening of both the cataclysmic and the milder type, we may sum up what they seem to show most concisely by expressing in the form of curves the frequency of their occurrence. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)