atheism – Islamic Research and Information Center (IRIC) https://iric.org Thu, 31 Aug 2023 18:06:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.14 https://iric.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/iric-favicon.png atheism – Islamic Research and Information Center (IRIC) https://iric.org 32 32 Will My Children Be Muslim? The Development of Religious Identity in Young People https://iric.org/will-my-children-be-muslim-the-development-of-religious-identity-in-young-people/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=will-my-children-be-muslim-the-development-of-religious-identity-in-young-people https://iric.org/will-my-children-be-muslim-the-development-of-religious-identity-in-young-people/#respond Wed, 15 Jan 2020 11:04:25 +0000 https://demo.iric.org/?p=19231 Religious identity development: A review of the research

One of the primary concerns of Muslim parents in the West is the religious identity of their children. Many parents wonder what the secret is to raising a child with imān (faith) in a society in which being Muslim can be challenging. Approximately 70% of people in the U.S. identify as Christian, nearly 23% identify as having no religion, and less than 1% identify as Muslim. Although Muslim families transmit their religious affiliation to their children at higher rates than Christians in America, approximately 20% of those raised as Muslims do not identify as Muslim in adulthood.

In this cultural context, where Christianity is the majority religion and the philosophies of secularism, liberalism, feminism, capitalism, and atheism are pervasive and influential, Muslims who desire to transmit Islam to their children need to understand how to socialize their children to develop a healthy Islamic identity.

Exactly what should parents do to inculcate Islamic beliefs, values, and behaviors in their children? What type of schools should they send their children to? What effects do friends have on their children’s religious identity? What types of parent-child relationships and parenting practices facilitate the development of faith? These are the types of questions that parents ask and need answers to, yet relatively little is known about the process of religious identity development in Muslim youth in America.

This paper provides an overview of theories about the mechanisms by which religion is conveyed and passed down to children in America. Although the overwhelming majority of research has been conducted with adherents of other faiths in the United States, the insights from existing research are invaluable in constructing theoretical models and a roadmap to better understand Islamic identity development of Muslim American youth.

Source: Yaqeen Institute

]]> https://iric.org/will-my-children-be-muslim-the-development-of-religious-identity-in-young-people/feed/ 0 The six countries in the world with the most ‘convinced atheists’ https://iric.org/the-six-countries-in-the-world-with-the-most-convinced-atheists/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-six-countries-in-the-world-with-the-most-convinced-atheists https://iric.org/the-six-countries-in-the-world-with-the-most-convinced-atheists/#respond Tue, 30 Aug 2016 17:04:06 +0000 https://iric.org/?p=28755 Governments have imposed their own rules against religion throughout history.

Religion around the world is on the decline. For the first time ever, Norway now has more people who do not believe in God than do – with 39 per cent of atheists versus 37 per cent of believers. In the US, meanwhile, a nation whose dollar bill signs states “In God We Trust”, belief in the Christian deity is also at an all time low.

Research found that nearly twice as many Americans in 2014 said they did not believe in God as in 1980 – and that five times as many in 2014 said they never prayed, with millennials in particular accounting for the change in public opinion. Now a map has shown degrees of religion around the world according to the countries with the most people saying they are “convinced atheists”.

Yet despite a trend towards fewer people believing in God around the world, it appears only a few countries have more than 20 per cent of citizens who are comfortable about rejecting the notion of a deity entirely.

Here are six of the most atheist countries in the world, not including Norway:

  1. China
  2. Japan
  3. Czech Republic
  4. France
  5. Australia
  6. Iceland

Read more at: The Independent

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