Why Baby Boomers Turned from Religion: Shaping Belief and Belonging, 1945-2021

by Abby Day

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192866680
• ISBN13: 9780192866684
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.8" x 5.5"