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Why Baby Boomers Turned from Religion - Shaping Belief and Belonging, 1945-2021 (Hardcover)
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Why Baby Boomers Turned from Religion - Shaping Belief and Belonging, 1945-2021 (Hardcover)
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Mocked, vilified, blamed, and significantly misunderstood - the
'Baby Boomers' are members of the generation of post-WWII babies
who came of age in the 1960s. Parents of the 1940s and 1950s raised
their Boomer children to be respectable church-attendees, and yet
in some ways demonstrated an ambivalence that permitted their
children to spurn religion and eventually to raise their own
children to be the least religious generation ever. The Baby
Boomers studied here, living in the UK and Canada, were the last
generation to have been routinely baptised and taken regularly to
mainstream, Anglican churches. So, what went wrong - or, perhaps,
right? This study, based on in-depth interviews and compared to
other studies and data, is the first to offer a sociological
account of the sudden transition from religious parents to
non-religious children and grandchildren, focusing exclusively on
this generation of ex-Anglican Boomers. Now in their 60s and 70s,
the Boomers featured here make sense of their lives and the world
they helped create. They discuss how they continue to dis-believe
in God yet have an easy relationship with ghosts, and how they did
not, as theologians often claim, fall into an immoral self-centred
abyss. They forged different practices and sites (whether in 'this
world' or 'elsewhere') of meaning, morality, community, and
transcendence. They also reveal here the values, practices, and
beliefs they transmitted to the future generations, helping shape
the non-religious identities of Generation X, Millennials, and
Generation Z.
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