{"id":30318,"date":"2010-12-07T10:02:59","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T15:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=30318"},"modified":"2013-11-23T03:52:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T08:52:17","slug":"baby-worshipper-an-example-of-religious-socialization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/12\/07\/baby-worshipper-an-example-of-religious-socialization\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Worshipper: An Example of Religious Socialization"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nReligious people around the world express their devotion to God(s) in widely disparate ways. When children are raised in a particular religious institution, then, it is not enough to believe; they must also learn how <\/em>to worship as others around them do.<\/p>\n

The amazing one-minute video below shows Ava Grace, a child of about two, at Ignited Church in Lakeland, Florida (source<\/a>). \u00a0The clip beautifully illustrates the socialization of children into particular kinds of worship. \u00a0With hand motions, body movements, and facial expressions, this child is doing a wonderful job learning the culturally-specific rules guiding the performance of devotion.<\/p>\n

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See also: The Evangelical Habitus<\/a>.\u00a0Via Blame it on the Voices<\/a>.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Religious people around the world express their devotion to God(s) in widely disparate ways. When children are raised in a particular religious institution, then, it is not enough to believe; they must also learn how to worship as others around them do. The amazing one-minute video below shows Ava Grace, a child of about two, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[218,223,42,2051],"class_list":["post-30318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bodies","tag-childrenyouth","tag-religion","tag-socialization"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30318"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30331,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30318\/revisions\/30331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}