Religious Parenting

Christian Smith and his team bring the same empirical discipline to this topic that makes Notre Dame's sociology of religion work so reliable — 200-plus interviews spanning Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and other traditions, analyzed at Princeton University Press level. The finding that religiously diverse parents share strikingly similar cultural models for faith transmission is a genuinely interesting result with implications well beyond academic circles. Peer-reviewed journals and respected scholars endorsed it, and it treats all traditions with fairness.