Paper short abstract:

This paper examines religious transmission in contexts of school and sport. Highlighting adult efforts to keep 'religion' on the agenda in contexts that privilege other quotidian agendas, I explore the import of endosociality for the transmission of religious morality and relationality.

Paper long abstract:

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in two Danish faith-based schools, Jewish and Evangelical Lutheran, this paper will examine implicit and explicit religious transmission in quotidian contexts of school and sport. A central question is how 'religion' inflects contexts in which religion is normally regarded as slightly out of context and significantly contextualized by more worldly aims and agendas associated with 'school' and 'sport.' Focusing on the ways in which adults strive to keep 'things religious' on the agenda in these experience spaces for children, I explore the potential impact of social closure--endosociality with relevant others--for the transmission of religious morality, relationality and identity.