contraception and abortion. Children receive a religious legacy from their parents and from the society immediately surrounding them, through instruction and (intentionally or unintentionally) through the power of example that is shaped by values, personality, and interests. Their religious legacy may include induction into organizations and into civic or secular religions. Their religious legacy is among the factors that condition people throughout their lives, although people as individuals have diverse reactions to their legacies. To outsiders who know them, people are identified in part by their religious legacy. For example, people born and raised in Hindu, Jewish, or American families have identities as Hindus, Jews, or Americans, independently of their beliefs or actions. People who do not embrace their religious legacy retain it nonetheless, and are characterized by terms such as lapsed, not observant, or unpatriotic. People who actually separate themselves from their religious legacy are termed apostates or traitors and may be subject to punishment. See also References Further reading Christiano, Kevin J., et al., (3rd ed., 2016), Sociology of Religion: Contemporary Developments, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Clarke, Peter B. (ed., 2009), The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Religion. Oxford/New York. Oxford University Press. Davie, Grace. (2013) The sociology of religion: A critical agenda (Sage, 2013). Derrick, Christopher (1967). Trimming the Ark: Catholic Attitudes and the Cult of Change. New York: P.J. Kennedy & Sons. vi, 154 p. Douglas, H. Paul. (1926) 1000 City Churches Phases of Adaptation to Urban Environment; in U.S. online free Gellner, Ernest (1974). Legitimation of Belief (Cambridge University Press) Pickel, Gert, and Olaf Müller, eds. (2009) Church and religion in contemporary Europe: results from empirical and comparative research (Springer-Verlag, 2009). Singleton, Andrew, ed. (2014) Religion, culture and society: A global approach (Sage, 2014). Swanson, Guy E. (1967). Religion and Regime: a Sociological Account of the Reformation. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press. x, 295 p. Turner, Bryan S., ed. (2010) The new Blackwell companion to the sociology of religion (2010). Turner, Brian S., (2003) "Historical sociology of religion: politics and modernity." in Gerard Delanty, and Engin F. Isin, eds., Handbook of Historical Sociology (2003): 349–63. Turner, Bryan S. (1991) Religion and social theory (1991). Warner, Rob. (2010) Secularization and its discontents (Bloomsbury, 2010). Weber, Max, Sociology of Religion Weber, Max. (1928) The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Los Angeles: Roxbury Company, 2002. Wilson, Bryan (1982). Religion in Sociological