Why baby boomers turned from religion : shaping belief and belonging, 1945-2021 /
"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. Their parents of the 1940s and 1950s raised their Boomer children to be church-attenders and respectable, and yet in some ways...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2022.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "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. Their parents of the 1940s and 1950s raised their Boomer children to be church-attenders and respectable, and yet in some ways demonstrated an ambivalence that permitted their children to spurn religion and to eventually 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 book, 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 grand-children, 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 did not, as theologians are wont to argue, fall into an immoral self-centred abyss, but forged different practices and sites (whether in 'this world' or 'elsewhere') of meaning, morality, community and transcendence. They also reveal the kind of values, practices and beliefs they transmitted to the future generations, helping shape non-religious identities of Generation X, the Millennials and Generation Z"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0191957593 9780191957598 9780192691965 0192691961 0192691953 9780192691958 |