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Catholic conceptions of faith: a generational analysis.

From: Sociology of Religion  |  Date: 9/22/1996  |  Author: Davidson, James D.; Williams, Andrea S.

This article describes and differences in Catholics, conception of faith. The differences were found in fifteen focus groups with Catholics from each of three birth cohorts. The youngest cohort of participants was born between 1961 and 1976 and expressed its faith individualistic terms placing more emphasis on personal relationship with God than on involvement in the church. Those belonging to the oldest cohort, born on or before 1940, described faith in institutional terms -- ...

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