Intergenerational Religious Transmission and Conversion in the United States: Are the Effects of Parental Religion Moderated by Parental Religion Concordance, Education, Geography, and Generation?
To evaluate the effects of parental religion on the intergenerational transmission of religious affiliation (TRI) and changes in religious attendance, considering potential moderating effects of parental religious concordance, geographic locale, education attainment, and generational cohort of the r...
| Published in: | Research in the social scientific study of religion |
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| Authors: | ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2017
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Research in the social scientific study of religion
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| Further subjects: | B
Religion in Asien
B Cultural sciences B Religious sociology B Social sciences B China B Religionspsycholigie B Asien-Studien B Religionswissenschaften |
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| Summary: | To evaluate the effects of parental religion on the intergenerational transmission of religious affiliation (TRI) and changes in religious attendance, considering potential moderating effects of parental religious concordance, geographic locale, education attainment, and generational cohort of the respondents. Method: Respondents included 1,721 individuals from the Us who participated in Baylor University’s 2005 Religion Survey. Respondents reported personal, paternal, and maternal religious affiliation; educational attainment; geographic locale; and religious attendance at the age of 12 and the present. Religious affiliation was divided into categories based on the Us Census divisions. This resulted in the following religious categories: 1) Protestantism, 2) Catholicism, 3) Other, and 4) None. Change in attendance was operationalized by measuring differences between religious attendance at age 12 and present. A series of hierarchical logistic regressions was performed to assess the factors that predict TRI and changes in attendance in the Us. Results: Religious identity was transmitted among 72% of the sample. Maternal religion, region, and cohort had significant main effects on the probability of TRI. The main effects of paternal religion, education, and concordance on TRI were not significant. The interactions between paternal religion and region, maternal religion and education, and maternal religion and concordance were significant for predicting TRI. The main effects of cohort, maternal religiosity, and region, as well as the interaction of maternal religiosity and concordance were significant predictors of differences in attendance. Conclusion: Although religion is highly transmitted from parent to child, there are important contextual moderating factors. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Research in the social scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004348936_002 |