One of the biggest challenges for religious parents hoping to pass down their faith might be figuring how to do so while also respecting their children’s agency.
That transmission of faith is the subject of a new paper by researchers in BYU’s School of Family Life, published this month in the journal Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, building on the ongoing American Families of Faith Project. Over 20 years, the project has explored different topics related to religion and family life, using interviews with roughly 200 Christian, Jewish and Muslim families pointed out by their faith leaders as “exemplars” of faith.
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