Families and Faith: How Religion Is Passed Down across Generations
Those who are curious about intergenerational religious perpetuity may enjoy reading Vern Bengtson's latest book, Families and Faith. The story begins with the author. His father “was a minister in a small Evangelical denomination” and his mother never saw her prodigal son return to the faith,...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2014
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2014, Volume: 75, Issue: 3, Pages: 490-492 |
| Review of: | Families and faith (New York : Oxford University Press, 2013) (Kim, Henry)
Families and faith (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2013) (Kim, Henry) |
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| Summary: | Those who are curious about intergenerational religious perpetuity may enjoy reading Vern Bengtson's latest book, Families and Faith. The story begins with the author. His father “was a minister in a small Evangelical denomination” and his mother never saw her prodigal son return to the faith, contributing to a death of “sorrow and anger” and a son's “everlasting regret.” This eviscerating experience fostered a research question which eventually burgeoned into an investigation entailing four generations, 3,500 people, and 50 years. Bengtson asks, “What is it . . . |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/sru047 |