What is it about?
How do safety and closeness, or the lack of them, affect religious socialization? In our empirical study among Finnish families, three key dimensions were found: 1) the atmosphere in families, 2) the atmosphere related to religious communities, and 3) the atmosphere related to one´s own spirituality.
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Why is it important?
Our study suggest several implications for practice in religious and other communities of existential meaning. For instance, communities wanting to promote continuity as well as life satisfaction would strongly benefit from practices supporting openness and a sense of safety, for example by arranging platforms for families to discuss their religious or other views and also taking into account the diversity of those views in their own activities.
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We hope that this study encourages families and religious communities talk more openly about religion and values.
Laura Kallatsa
Lutheran Theological Seminary
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This page is a summary of: Safety and Closeness in Religious Socialization: A Mixed Methods Study of Finnish Families, Journal of Empirical Theology, June 2023, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/15709256-20231144.
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