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November 10, 2020

Trying to Understand Religious Parents, Three Sociologists Accidentally Discover Something about the (Secular) American Creed

While displaying ignorance of Judaism.

In Religious Parenting, a trio of professors analyze the results of an extensive study of the attitudes of Americans who wish to inculcate religious belief in their children. Melissa Langsam Braunstein, in her review, notes that the authors display a conspicuous lack of understanding of Judaism, beginning with their choice of subjects:

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