It can also include the religious indoctrination of children into a dominant religion by their converted parents.
After a generation or two, formerly devout families may see their original religious identity develop into something more surface-level or symbolic.
[4] These pressures may be exerted by making other, more appealing forms of cultural assimilation, such as membership in secular social club activities, so time-consuming that they interfere seriously with attendance at minority religious services, and by discouraging expression of minority religious beliefs in public.
[4] Some examples of this form of religious assimilation can be found throughout Jewish history.
In the late 1300s, antisemitic violence forced many Spanish Jews to convert or leave.