RT Book
T1 Religious parenting: transmitting faith and values in contemporary America
A1 Smith, Christian 1960-
A1 Ritz, Bridget 1992-
A1 Rotolo, Michael 1991-
A2 Ritz, Bridget 1992-
A2 Rotolo, Michael 1991-
LA English
PP Princeton, New Jersey Oxford, Oxfordshire
PB Princeton University Press
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1668410745
AB "How do religiously-observant American parents pass on their religion to their children? Sociologist Christian Smith and his team sought to answer this question by interviewing over two hundred parents from across the U.S. affiliated with religious congregations of various types. The book presents the voices of parents from diverse socioeconomic and religious backgrounds interested in passing on their religious convictions and practices to their children, with the focus on why they think this matters, and how they do it. What Smith and his team found was surprising. Almost all the parents interviewed- whether Catholic, Evangelical, Jewish, Muslim, Mormon, or Hindu, and whether politically or theologically conservative or liberal-view the transmission of religion in much the same way. Most religious parents do not expect professional clergy and youth ministries to play a large role in imparting to young people a taste for continued religious affiliation and participation. Rather, they expect to do this work themselves, viewing their children as ongoing "projects". Moreover, very few of these religious parents regard what we might call the "truth" of religious claims-beliefs in salvation or the trinity (for example), the afterlife, heaven, etc.-as important reasons for the centrality of religion in their lives and the lives of their children. For nearly all, including the most conservative, religion is almost always about community, morality, and a sense of purpose, all of which lead to a better quality of life for themselves and their children in the here and now. Smith and his co-authors ground their discussion of religious parenting in a broader set of theoretical claims about the way in which religious transmission occurs. Drawing on cognitive anthropology and inspired by work in cognitive science, the authors present and describe the background "cultural models" that American religious parents hold and use to inform their parenting"--
CN BL625.8
SN 978-0-691-19496-7
K1 Parenting : Religious aspects
K1 Religion and sociology : United States
K1 Parental influences : United States
K1 Intergenerational communication : Religious aspects
K1 Intergenerational Relations : Religious aspects
K1 Eltern
K1 Glaubensvermittlung
K1 Religiöse Erziehung
K1 Usa
K1 Aufsatzsammlung
K1 USA : Eltern : Glaubensvermittlung : Religiöse Erziehung