Families and Religion. Dynamics of Transmission across Generations

von Christel Gärtner, Linda Hennig, Olaf Müller (eds.)
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This comparative study examines the transmission of religion in families in Germany, Italy, Hungary, Finland and Canada. The authors rely on the widely shared argument that religious change can primarily be understood as an intergenerational process. Based on a mixed-methods design, the book investigates the question of how, when exactly and under what conditions the following generations become less religious than the previous ones. From the perspective of familial and historical generations, the authors examine the significance of (religious) socialization for the transmission of (non-)religious worldviews, affiliation, practice, and identity. According to a central finding, religious change takes place primarily in the phase of adolescence against the background of the respective social context.

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    Acknowledgements

    I. Introduction
    Transmission of religion across generations
    Christel Gärtner, Linda Hennig, Olaf Müller

    II. Country studies
    1. Patterns and dynamics of transmission in Germany
    Christel Gärtner, Linda Hennig, Olaf Müller

    2. Continuities and changes in religious transmission in Italy
    Roberta Ricucci, Ferruccio Biolacti Rinaldi, Luca Bossi, Marcello Cabria, Renzo Carriero, Francesco Molteni

    3. The challenge of transmitting religion across generations in Canada
    Peter Beyer, Jacob Legault-Leclair

    4. Transmission of religion across generations in Hungary
    Gergely Rost Zsuzsanna Szvetelsky, Virág Sövegjártó

    5. The continuity and discontinuity of religion in Finnish families
    Kati Tervo-Niemelä, Jenni Spännäri, Laura Kallatsa, Heidi Toivanen

    III. Cross-county Comparisons
    6. Familial religious socialization, religious affiliation and religiosity in comparative perspective
    Olaf Müller, Jacob Legault-Leclair, Francesco Molteni, Gergely Rosta, Kati Tervo-Niemelä

    7. Comparing religious transmission and transformation across five countries
    Peter Beyer, Luca Bossi, Alyshea Cummins, Christel Gärtner, Linda Hennig, Roberta Ricucci, Jenni Spännäri, Zsuzsanna Szvetelsky

    IV. Conclusion
    Transormation in transmission
    Peter Beyer, Christel Gärtner

    V.
    References
    Contributors
    Tables
    Figures

Christel Gärtner, Linda Hennig, Olaf Müller (eds.): Families and Religion. Dynamics of Transmission across Generations, Frankfurt am Main / New York: Campus Verlag, 2025 (Reihe 'Religion und Moderne' 32).