Intergenerational Transmission of Religious Giving

Instilling Giving Habits across the Life Course

Bibliographic Data

ID3544632
AuthorsPatricia Snell Herzog (0000-0001-6231-1371, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, corresponding author), Scott Mitchell (0000-0003-4657-0706)
Year2016
Volume7
Issue7
Pages93
Publication date2016-07-16
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel7070093
OpenAlexW2494906217
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited7

This paper investigates the research question: How do religious youth learn to give? While it is likely that youth learn religious financial giving from a variety of different sources, this investigation focuses primarily on how parents teach giving to their children. Supplementary data are also analyzed on the frequency in which youth hear extra-familial calls to give within their religious congregations. In focusing on parental transmission, the analysis identifies a number of approaches that parents report using to teach their children religious financial giving. It also investigates thoughts and feelings about religious financial giving by the children of these parents as a means of assessing the potential impacts of parental methods. Additionally, congregation member reflections on how they learned to give provide insights on giving as a process that develops across the life course, often instilled in childhood, but not appearing behaviorally until adulthood. As such, this paper contributes to a life course understanding of religious giving and has implications for giving across generations

Developmental psychology · Life course approach · Sociology · Telecommunications · Computer Science · Engineering · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology

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