The role of religion and non-religion in contemporary highly differentiated societies appears multi-faceted and as a driving force toward challenges, tensions and transformations. In this scenario, families play a central role, from (non)religious transmission of values to (non)religious practices. While literature in the field of sociology of (non)religion extensively addresses the process of socialization to (non)religious values, the intertwining between (non)religion, families, relationships, and their everyday/everynight contexts and issues remains largely unexplored or up-to-date. In addition, these aspects are seldom analysed through the lens of the sociology of families and relationships, which would allow disclosing a range of opportunities to analyse beliefs and non-beliefs, faith and non-faith and an array of practices, processes and social identities. In this special issue, we focus on the complex relations between faith and non-faith worldviews and family relationships, aiming to start a discussion about how the perspective of the sociology of families, relationships and intimate life can dialogue with the sociology of religion and offer valuable insights to social policy.
Tartari et al. (Wed,) studied this question.