Growing up religious
Subtitle: Christians and Jews and their journeys of faith
By: Robert Wuthnow.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Religious biography -- United States; Jewish way of life; Christian life -- United States
Description: In this new book from Robert Wuthnow we follow the lives of ordinary people to see how the past operates to inform the ever changing spiritual life of America.

In a nation where people are always reinventing their religious practices, Robert Wuthnow examines the lives of those who grew up religious and returned to religion in later life. He discovers that what brings adults back often has less to do with religious institutions than with the way family and other relations formed around religious practice: memories of mothers, fathers, and neighbors whose everyday acts were imbued with spiritual meaning.

Growing Up Religious will resonate for anyone with a religious background and for those seeking to understand the inextricable ties between religion, family, and individual growth.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-249).