“…Consequently, family was the most influential factor for the adoption of religion. This paramount role of intergenerational, intra-family transmission echoes the dominant scholarly position on religious socialisation and transfer (Ateş and Schnell, 2016; Bebiroglu et al, 2017; Mahoney, 2021). As a consequence, participants’ adoption of ‘their’ religion often manifested in attending religious services, participating in communal religious initiation rites (e.g., baptism and circumcision), religious festivities, and observing religious rules.…”