The transmission and formation of socioreligious identities in modernity - An analytical essay on the trajectories of identification

Journal/Book: Int Sociol. 1998; 13: 6 Bonhill Street, London EC2A 4PU, England. Sage Publications Ltd. 213-228.

Abstract: Like all institutions of socialization, religion is confronted by the cultural discontinuity characteristic of societies in high modernity, but this predicament is particularly problematic because transmission to younger generations is the very process by which religion constitutes itself as religion across time. Thus, the question of transmission is at the centre of a sociology of religious modernity. This analysis examines, at an exploratory level, some of the trajectories by which individuals' religious identities are established. It proposes that various trajectories involve different dimensions and combinations of dimensions - communal, ethical, cultural and emotional - of religious identification tin contrast to the traditional pattern of all dimensions unified in a single institutional package).

Note: Article HervieuLeger D, Ecole Hautes Etud Sci Sociales, Ctr Etud Interdisciplinaires Faits Religieux, Paris, FRANCE

Keyword(s): identity; memory; modernity; religion

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