How does religious socialization influence sacred space?

Religious socialization is all the ways we are influenced socially by religion. You can be influenced by religious socialization at a youth group, at school or even at work, though the most common and most effective means of religious socialization is your own family. You can be socialized with almost any religion in the world, whether it's Christianity, Buddhism, Islam or any other religion. For most people the religion that they have been socialized with becomes an important part of their identity. Religious socialization can often determine the values that they have either in part or in full. Most societies have been influenced by religion. This is evident in their laws, public ceremonies and traditions. The religion that you are socialized with can affect what you see as sacred space. For instance, if you are a Catholic than you might think of sacred space as being in a cathedral, but for a Christian sacred space can be anywhere that you feel close to God. So you see that religious socialization can affect everything from traditions to identity and from values to the way that you see sacred space.

By Isaiah Robinson