Families and Faith
Religion
Oxford University Press
2013-12
267
Religion
Oxford University Press
2013-12
267
“Parents often throw up their hands and let popular culture take over, but they have more religious influence than they think.”
In Families and Faith, Vern Bengtson examines how religion is—or is not—passed down from one generation to the next. Armed with unprecedented data collected over more than four decades from more than 2400 individuals, Bengtson offers remarkable insight into American religion over the course of several decades.