Handbook of the Sociology of Religion

Toward Integration of Religion and Spirituality 145 to its continuing hold upon consciousness. Shared faith and community sustai ...

146 Wade Clark Roof self-identities relate quite differently to levels of religious individualism. Using a scale measuring relig ...

Toward Integration of Religion and Spirituality 147 but not spiritual in this sense are perhaps more common than we presume, enc ...

148 Wade Clark Roof religion that is often missed by sociologists focusing primarily on its “secondhand” manifestations. If we a ...

PART THREE Religion and the Life Course ...

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CHAPTER TWELVE Religious Socialization Sources of Influence and Influences of Agency Darren E. Sherkat Religious socialization i ...

152 Darren Sherkat structures with mobilized social movement organizations, just as contemporary stud- ies in the sociology of r ...

Sources of Influence and Influences of Agency 153 1997, 1998; Von Weisaker 1971). Religious choices are often driven by adaptive ...

154 Darren Sherkat the impact of socialization. Following Amartya Sen (1973,1993), I identify three types of social influences o ...

Sources of Influence and Influences of Agency 155 not freely made – there is no social vacuum that would allow such freedom. Cho ...

156 Darren Sherkat life course influences children’s participation (Acock 1984; Acock and Bengtson 1980; Willits and Crider 1989 ...

Sources of Influence and Influences of Agency 157 influenced their parents’ beliefs in the Bible, leading their elders to become ...

158 Darren Sherkat even the most rudimentary indicators of religious involvement – and only the Youth Parent Socialization Panel ...

Sources of Influence and Influences of Agency 159 Sunday School for all ages. In a liberal church, a minister or teacher will be ...

160 Darren Sherkat Most people remain in their denomination of origin, and there is no evidence that rates of religious mobility ...

Sources of Influence and Influences of Agency 161 come instead from cultural orientations fostered in dominant educational insti ...

162 Darren Sherkat religious activists have warned parents against the pitfalls of postsecondary education, advocating Christian ...

Sources of Influence and Influences of Agency 163 better understand the connection between aging, life course transitions, and r ...

CHAPTER THIRTEEN In Rhetoric and Practice Defining “The Good Family” in Local Congregations Penny Edgell Throughout American his ...