Why baby boomers turned from religion : shaping belief and belonging, 1945-2021 / Abby Day.

"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. Their parents of the 1940s and 1950s raised their Boomer children to be church-attenders and respectable, and yet in some ways...

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Main Author: Day, Abby, 1956- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2022.
Edition:First edition.
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