Families and Faith : How Religion Is Passed Down Across Generations, Hardcove...

by Vern L. Bengtson

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Families and Faith : How Religion Is Passed Down Across Generations, Hardcover by Bengtson, Vern L.; Putney, Norella M. (CON); Harris, Susan C. (CON), ISBN 0199948658, ISBN-13 9780199948659, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Winner of the Distinguished Book Award from American Sociology Association Sociology of Religion Section Winner of the Richard Kalish Best Publication Award from the Gerontological Society of America 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? How do some families succeed in passing on their faith while others do not? Families and Faith: How Religion is Passed Down across Generations seeks to answer these questions and many more. For almost four decades, Vern Bengtson and his colleagues have been conducting the largest-ever study of religion and family across generations. Through war and social upheaval, depression and technological revolution, they have followed more than 350 families composed of more than 3,500 individuals whose lives span more than a century--the oldest was born in 1881, the youngest in 1988--to find out how religion is, or is not, passed down from one generation to the next. What they found may come as a surprise: despite enormous changes in American society, a child i

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Year: 2013
• ISBN: 9780199948659
• Condition: Fine

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