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Beyond Religious Rigidities: Religious Firmness and Religious Flexibility as Complementary Loyalties in Faith Transmission

by
David C. Dollahite
1,*,
Loren D. Marks
1,
Kate P. Babcock
1,
Betsy H. Barrow
1 and
Andrew H. Rose
2
1
School of Family Life, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA
2
Department of Sociology, Anthropology, & Social Work, Texas Tech University, Box 41012, Lubbock, TX 79409-1012, USA
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Religions 2019, 10(2), 111; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10020111
Received: 17 January 2019 / Revised: 6 February 2019 / Accepted: 10 February 2019 / Published: 15 February 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Religion and Family Life)
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Research has found that intergenerational transmission of religiosity results in higher family functioning and improved family relationships. Yet the Pew Research Center found that 44% of Americans reported that they had left the religious affiliation of their childhood. And 78% of the expanding group of those who identify as religiously unaffiliated (“Nones”) reported that they were raised in “highly religious families.” We suggest that this may be, in part, associated with religious parents exercising excessive firmness with inadequate flexibility (rigidity). We used a multiphase, systematic, team-based process to code 8000+ pages of in-depth interviews from 198 Christian, Jewish, and Muslim families from 17 states in all 8 major religio-cultural regions of the United States. We framed firmness as mainly about loyalty to God and God’s purposes, and flexibility as mainly about loyalty to family members and their needs and circumstances. The reported findings provided a range of examples illustrating (a) religious firmness, (b) religious flexibility, as well as (c) efforts to balance and combine firmness and flexibility. We discuss conceptual and practical implications of treating firmness and flexibility as complementary loyalties in intergenerational faith transmission. View Full-Text
Keywords: intergenerational transmission of religion; parenting; religious youth; parent-youth relationships intergenerational transmission of religion; parenting; religious youth; parent-youth relationships
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Dollahite, D.C.; Marks, L.D.; Babcock, K.P.; Barrow, B.H.; Rose, A.H. Beyond Religious Rigidities: Religious Firmness and Religious Flexibility as Complementary Loyalties in Faith Transmission. Religions 2019, 10, 111. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10020111

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Dollahite DC, Marks LD, Babcock KP, Barrow BH, Rose AH. Beyond Religious Rigidities: Religious Firmness and Religious Flexibility as Complementary Loyalties in Faith Transmission. Religions. 2019; 10(2):111. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10020111

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Dollahite, David C., Loren D. Marks, Kate P. Babcock, Betsy H. Barrow, and Andrew H. Rose. 2019. "Beyond Religious Rigidities: Religious Firmness and Religious Flexibility as Complementary Loyalties in Faith Transmission" Religions 10, no. 2: 111. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10020111

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