Age and Beliefs

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Older people may face a growing privatisation of their lives with increasing social isolation as partners and friends die. Participation in religious organisations provides social support and a network of people to relate to
Disengagement
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older people are more likely to have had a greater emphasis placed on religion throughout their education and childhood
Religious Socialisation
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The aging process and disengagement from society may generate an engagement with religion
Ill-health and Death
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Suggests younger people are more likely to rely on their own conscience rather than religious rules to guide their behaviour
Catto
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who stated that for young people religion is private and 'believing without belonging'
Davie
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who suggests that the decline of religious young people is due to the decline of religious education such as Sunday school
Bruce
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the name for reasons such as leisure becoming a bigger part of younger peoples lives and pubs, clubs and shops are all open fro long hours including Sundays, also peer pressure could fall into this
Pragmatic
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older people are more likely to have had a greater emphasis placed on religion throughout their education and childhood

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Religious Socialisation

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The aging process and disengagement from society may generate an engagement with religion

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Suggests younger people are more likely to rely on their own conscience rather than religious rules to guide their behaviour

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who stated that for young people religion is private and 'believing without belonging'

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