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. Parents of the 1940s and 1950s raised their Boomer
children to be respectable church-attendees, and yet in some ways
demonstrated an ambivalence that permitted their children to spurn
religion and eventually to 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 study, 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 grandchildren, 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 how
they did not, as theologians often claim, fall into an immoral
self-centred abyss. They forged different practices and sites (whether
in 'this world' or 'elsewhere') of meaning, morality, community, and
transcendence. They also reveal here the values, practices, and
beliefs they transmitted to the future generations, helping shape the
non-religious identities of Generation X, Millennials, and Generation
Z.
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Shaping Belief and Belonging, 1945-2021
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780192691965
Publisert
2022
Utgiver
Oxford University Press Academic UK
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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