Why baby boomers turned from religion : shaping belief and belonging, 1945-2021 / Abby Day.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Day, Abby, 1956- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baby boom generation--Religious life--Great Britain.

Baby boom generation.

Baby boom generation--Great Britain--Conduct of life.

Baby boom generation--Religious life--Canada.

Baby boom generation--Canada--Conduct of life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022.

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. 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. This study, based on in-depth interviews and compared to other studies and data, offers 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.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 2, 2022).

ISBN:

0-19-269196-1

0-19-195759-3

0-19-269195-3