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Why Baby Boomers Turned from Religion takes an in-depth look at the generation of post-WWII babies who came of age in the 1960s, and how they acted as a transitional generation between religious parents and non-religious children and grandchildren, forged different practices and sites of meaning, morality, community, and transcendence.

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 studied here, living in the UK and Canada, were the last generation to have been routinely baptised and taken regularly to mainstream, Anglican churches. This study, based on in-depth interviews and compared to other studies and data, offers a sociological account of the sudden transition from religious parents to non-religious children and grandchildren, focusing exclusively on this generation of ex-Anglican Boomers.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Part I Mapping the field -- Chapter 1 What is a sociology of religion? -- Inventing sociology -- Materialism and the social -- From material to meaning -- Durkheim and the social collective -- The function of religion -- Notes -- Indicative reading -- Chapter 2 How do we know what we know? -- Introduction -- Religion is 'man' made -- Questioning the questioner -- Sociology of religion and ethnography -- Asking questions -- Surveys -- Ethics and method -- Note -- Indicative reading -- Chapter 3 The contemporary religious landscape: Retreat, reinvention and resurgence -- Introduction -- Retreat -- Reinvention -- New religious movements -- Resurgence -- Notes -- Indicative reading -- Part II Religion and its publics -- Chapter 4 Politics and religion -- Introduction -- Locating the study of politics and religion -- At stake is the state: sharing the load -- Religion and nationalism -- Religion and politics by census -- Notes -- Indicative reading -- Chapter 5 Violence and crime -- Introduction -- Defining religious violence -- Religious genocide -- Religious terrorism -- Suicide bombing -- Religious response to crime -- Creating the criminal subject -- Note -- Indicative reading -- Chapter 6 Policing religion: Religious equality, social justice and the law -- Introduction -- What are 'human rights'? -- The public, the private: are human rights sacred? -- The role of the state in human rights -- Human rights and religion: case examples -- Right to education -- Right to work with religious beliefs -- Courts compared: the ECHR and Supreme Court (USA) -- The right to rights -- 'Rights' and the conservative/liberal divide -- Note -- Indicative reading -- Part III Contested borders -- Chapter 7 Gender and sexuality -- Introduction.

El famoso escritor de ciencia-ficción Ray Bradbury lo dijo muy bien: "Si usted escribe cien cuentos cortos y todos son malos, eso no significa que usted ha fracasado. Uno fracasa sólo cuando deja de escribir". El texto de Ray Bradbury es una de las interesantes citas de este artículo que invita a los académicos a escribir. En él se analizan las razones más comunes que dan los profesores para publicar sus trabajos y, por su puesto, los motivos más frecuentes que aducen para no publicar. Pero, en el fondo, todos los profesores quieren hacerlo. Sin embargo, cuando piensan en un trabajo sesudo para una revista científica, los asalta una multitud de dudas. De ahí que este artículo, de manera ordenada, presente una completa y sencilla guía del proceso que suele seguirse, respondiendo las preguntas que surgen inevitablemente. Por ejemplo, ¿Cuál es el objetivo que se busca con el tema del artículo? ¿Qué se entiende por calidad y cómo se aplica a un escrito destinado para una revista científica? ¿Quién hace la evaluación y cual es su papel? ¿A quiénes va dirigido el artículo y qué esperan? Finalmente, ¿cómo es posible garantizar su aceptación? Posteriormente, se hace una descripción completa del cúmulo de tareas que es necesario realizar para lograr "un artículo perfecto en siete días": la estructura, el primer borrador, la elaboración de un abstract y la revisión.

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