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Families and Faith - How Religion is Passed Down across Generations (Hardcover)
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Families and Faith - How Religion is Passed Down across Generations (Hardcover)
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Few things are more likely to cause heartache to devout parents
than seeing their child leave the faith. And it seems, from media
portrayals, that this is happening more and more frequently. But is
religious change between generations common? How does religion get
passed down from one generation to the next? Why do some families
maintain one faith while others do not? What factors are likely to
push people away from their childhood faith? What role does the
particular faith play? The family? The wider society? Does atheism
get passed down as well? In Families and Faith, Vern Bengtson seeks
to answer these questions and more by drawing on an extraordinary
study, conducted over more than four decades, of more than 350
families composed of more than 2400 people whose lives span more
than a century: the oldest was born in 1881, the youngest in 1988.
Bengtson argues that a child is actually more likely to remain
within the fold than to leave it, and, more surprisingly, that
parents' influence has remained relatively stable since the early
1970s. Even the nonreligious, in fact, are much more likely to be
following their parents than rebelling against them. And while
outside social forces play a role, the most important factor in
whether a child keeps the faith is the presence of a strong
fatherly bond. Armed with this unprecedented data, Bengtson offers
remarkable insight into American religion over the course of
several decades.
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