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The most important influence shaping the religious and spiritual
lives of children, youth, and teenagers is their parents. A myriad
of studies show that the parents of American youth play the leading
role in shaping the character of their religious and spiritual
lives, even well after they leave home and often for the rest of
their lives. We know a lot about the importance of parents in faith
transmission. However we know much less about the actual beliefs,
feelings, and activities of the parents themselves, what Christian
Smith and Amy Adamczyk call the "intergenerational transmission of
religious faith and practice." To address that gap, this book
reports the findings of a new national study of religious parents
in the United States. The findings and conclusions in Handing Down
the Faith are based on 215 in-depth, personal interviews with
religious parents from many traditions and different parts of the
country, and sophisticated analyses of two nationally
representative surveys of American parents about their religious
parenting. Handing Down the Faith explores the background beliefs
informing how and why religious parents seek to pass on religion to
their children; examines how parenting styles interact with parent
religiousness to shape effective religious transmission; shows how
parents have been influenced by their experiences as children
influenced by their own parents; reveals how religious parents view
their congregations and what they most seek out in a local church,
synagogue, temple, or mosque; explores the experiences and outlooks
of immigrant parents including Latino Catholics, East Asian
Buddhists, South Asian Muslims, and Indian Hindus. Smith and
Adamczyk step back to consider how American religion has
transformed over the last 100 years and to explain why parents
today shoulder such a huge responsibility in transmitting religious
faith and practice to their children. The book is rich in empirical
evidence and unique in many of the topics it explores and explains,
providing a variety of sometimes counterintuitive findings that
will interest scholars of religion, social scientists interested in
the family, parenting, and socialization; clergy and religious
educators and leaders; and religious parents themselves.
Public opinion about homosexuality varies substantially around the
world. While residents in some nations have embraced gay rights as
human rights, people in many other countries find homosexuality
unacceptable. What creates such big differences in attitudes? This
book shows that cross-national differences in opinion can be
explained by the strength of democratic institutions, the level of
economic development, and the religious context of the places where
people live. Amy Adamczyk uses survey data from almost ninety
societies, case studies of various countries, content analysis of
newspaper articles, and in-depth interviews to examine how
demographic and individual characteristics influence acceptance of
homosexuality.
Public opinion about homosexuality varies substantially around the
world. While residents in some nations have embraced gay rights as
human rights, people in many other countries find homosexuality
unacceptable. What creates such big differences in attitudes? This
book shows that cross-national differences in opinion can be
explained by the strength of democratic institutions, the level of
economic development, and the religious context of the places where
people live. Amy Adamczyk uses survey data from almost ninety
societies, case studies of various countries, content analysis of
newspaper articles, and in-depth interviews to examine how
demographic and individual characteristics influence acceptance of
homosexuality.
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