Sustaining young Canadian Baptists in the faith. Exploring the connection between religious affect and parental religious attendance

Fawcett, B. G., Francis, L.J. and McKenna, U. (2021) Sustaining young Canadian Baptists in the faith. Exploring the connection between religious affect and parental religious attendance. Journal of Research on Christian Education. ISSN 1065-6219

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Abstract

This paper explores the impact of parental religious practice on sustaining positive religious affect among churchgoing young Canadian Baptists. A total of 299 participants between the ages of 12 and 18 years attending a summer youth programme sponsored by the Canadian Baptists of Atlantic Canada, completed the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity as a measure of positive religious affect, together with measures of frequency of church attendance for themselves, their mother and their father. These data identified fathers’ religious attendance as a statistically significant factor augmenting the effect of mothers’ religious attendance for sustaining young Canadian Baptists in the faith. The implications of this finding are discussed for pastoral practice.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: © 2021 Taylor and Francis. This is an author accepted manuscript of a paper subsequently published in Journal of Research on Christian Education. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy.
Keywords: Baptists faith transmission parental influence attitude toward Christianity
Depositing User: Ursula Mckenna
Date Deposited: 29 Oct 2021 09:00
Last Modified: 26 Apr 2023 02:40
URI: https://bgro.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/879

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