Why Baby Boomers Turned from Religion Shaping Belief and Belonging, 1945-2021

Abby Day, Professor of Race, Faith, and Culture, Sociology Department, Goldsmiths, University of London

Abby Day, Professor in Race, Faith, and Culture, specialises in religion, critical race theory, and critical criminology. Following an award-winning MA and then PhD at Lancaster University, she researched and taught at the universities of Sussex and Kent. In 2013 she joined the Sociology Department
at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her most recent, highly acclaimed book, The Religious Lives of Older Laywomen: the Last Active Anglican Generation was the first to explore this silent, disappearing generation: the Baby Boomer mothers. Former chair of the BSA Sociology of Religion study group,
she sits on numerous international funding and editorial boards.

Part 1: And in the Beginning was the End
1. Who are the Baby Boomers?
2. Church: A Social Thing
3. Enabling Ambivalence
4. Teen Angst: Confirming doubts
Part 2: Believing in Leaving
5. Drifting Away, Fading Away
6. Blinding Light on the Road from Damascus: Climbing the Moral High Ground
7. 1960s Cultural Revolution: Sex and Sensibilities
8. Adulthood and Acceptance, with Lingering Trails
Part 3: Shaping Belief and Belonging
9. Belief in Spirits: Extraordinary Relationality
10. Belonging and Behaving
11. The Next Generations: Raising the 'Nones'
Appendix: Interviewing Online