Religious Socialization in working families in the Federal Republic of Germany and Britain after 1945. Ruhr and South Wales in comparison

(completed)

In this project the process of transmission of religious and religious content, interpretations and standards of working families in the Federal Republic and the United Kingdom are analyzed. The recent social history and social science research in the field of religious socialization in the working-class family prove to be insufficient and limited generalizable, because it was investigated neither systematic nor compared. The focus of the project impact of social and religious change in Western Europe after 1945 are on the religious socialization and education of children in the workforce. There are the national and religious differences but also similarities in the socialization patterns of parents and children's generation, the relationship between the religious practices of the educators and the later religion of the children and between the changed role and status of women in the transmission of religiosity in the family and Entkirchlichungsprozessen be worked out. The project is limited to two industrial agglomerations (the Ruhr and South Wales) and the time until the mid-1970s. It is based on both archival (ecclesiastical and religious tradition) as well as printed (statistics, surveys, empirical studies, biographies and autobiographies) sources, and is a contribution to the historical socialization research dar.

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Julia Riediger, M.A.