RT Article
T1 The Problem of Generalizing Generation
JF Religion and society
VO 4
IS 1
SP 109
OP 124
A1 Day, Abby 1956-
LA English
PB Berghahn
YR 2013
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1667372556
AB Research into the religious beliefs and behaviors of children, young people, adults, and elderly people prompts questions about the way "generation" is understood in the social scientific study of religion. What seem to the researcher at first to be shared values and beliefs on broad moral issues appear, at least to older people, to be lacking amongst the young. Such a difference in perception could be an example of a "generation" gap where generation is perceived by theorists such as Mannheim to be a shared identity of people who have a social history in common. Extensive literature in both anthropology and sociology is explored to find how such concepts are understood and operationalized. Detailed ethnography amongst elderly Anglican women begins to problematize how such notions as boundaries of "generation" blur with gender.
K1 Anglican
K1 Mannheim
K1 Belief
K1 Elderly
K1 Generation
K1 Youth
DO 10.3167/arrs.2013.040107