Religious identification, beliefs, and practices among Turkish Belgian and Moroccan Belgian Muslims: Intergenerational continuity and acculturative change

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1356-1374

  Güngör, Derya ^a   Fleischmann, Fenella ^a,b,c   Phalet, Karen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c WZB BERLIN SOCIAL SCIENCE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

acculturation; intergenerational transmission; Muslims; religion

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053649581     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022111412342     Document Type: Article

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