ABSTRACT
Young people whose parents have different religious backgrounds (for example, a Hindu married to a Christian or a Muslim married to a Sikh) have – at least potentially – access to two faith traditions. In a number of families, the mix of religion also involves a mix of cultures and/or ethnic backgrounds. This chapter explores how young people relate to the various facets of this dual inheritance. The question is whether they have knowledge of both and feel themselves connected with both or whether they are knowledgeable in one and only scantily acquainted with the other. Another aspect concerns the question of whether the young people have links with a faith community or not. Finally, there is the question whether there are other ways of having experience and knowledge of a faith tradition and, if there are, what these might be. These issues will be discussed in the light of ethnographic data gathered during an ethnographic study on mixed-faith families in the UK, together with theoretical approaches to the notion of knowledge.
