One of the things we talked about in class this week was religious identity. Religious identity can be described as the way or choice they became religious, and who they are religiously. When looking at ones religious identity you also have to look how that person may have encountered that identity. That person might have two different options of how they received their identity. One option is the option of choice. This option is where the person has chosen a religion and has made their identity around this by their own choice. The other option is that, their religious identity was influence or inherited. An example of this would be a person born to parents who have a certain religious identity, which means that person will also have the same religious identity. A persons religious identity can be seen through the things they do and how they live their life. This is basically the idea of religious identity I received from class and the chapter.
Religious identity is a topic that is under a lot of discussion these days. As the new generation is growing up and going off on their own, starting family's they start to grow away from the identities they had as a child growing up living in their parents households. Also as two people with diffenent religious identity come together and get married there are two different religious identities that have to be compromise to become one. The article I provide below looks in to the topic of religious identity and parenting. It looks at which parents religious identity is more superiour and relates it back to parenting. It looks at the aspect of parents having certain religous identities and how it affects the children. I found this article to be quite interesting hope you will have time to read it also.
http://notenoughgood.com/2012/12/religious-identity/
