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20 paź 2022 · Their parents of the 1940s and 1950s raised their Boomer children to be church-attenders and respectable, and yet in some ways demonstrated an ambivalence that permitted their children to spurn religion and to eventually raise their own children to be the least religious generation ever.
23 cze 2023 · Her book, Why Baby Boomers Turned from Religion: Shaping Belief and Belonging, 1945–2021 is based on interviews with a snowball sample of 55 ex-Anglican boomers (born between 1945 and 1960) who were raised in church-attending families and who had been baptized and confirmed.
Religious scholars often bemoan an apparent lack of purpose or ‘meaning’ amongst younger, secular people. Boomers, on the other hand, frequently challenge the idea that ‘meaning’ is important, at least when it is bound up in religious or philosophical frameworks.
8 lip 2024 · Situated within the context of rising numbers of ‘religious nones’ throughout many former Christian liberal democracies, Abby Day aims to highlight how a key generation, the ‘Baby Boomers’ (those b...
2 gru 2023 · She believes that current secularization has a lot to do with the fact that Baby Boomers (in Day's definition the generation born between 1945 and 1960) turned from religion, and she sets out to understand why.
20 paź 2022 · Mocked, vilified, blamed, and significantly misunderstood—the ‘Baby Boomers’ are members of the generation of post-World War II babies who came of age in the 1960s.
23 cze 2023 · Her book, Why Baby Boomers Turned from Religion: Shaping Belief and Belonging, 1945–2021 is based on interviews with a snowball sample of 55 ex-Anglican boomers (born between 1945 and 1960)...
