Preferences, Constraints, and Choices in Religious Markets: An Examination of Religious Switching and Apostasy

Sherkat, Darren E.; Wilson, J. A.

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“…A title which clearly expresses the core finding of this study, that religiosity, which entails both personal faith as well as religious attendance, is primarily the result of the intergenerational transmission of religious beliefs and practices from parents to child. This core finding is in line with findings from several US Studies (e.g., [8][9][10][11][12]) and it has also been corroborated by several studies conducted in the Netherlands and Belgium (e.g., [2,[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]). However, although in general these studies all indicate that parents are a crucial factor in the process of faith formation of their children, they differ in detail as to how parents actually determine this process.…”

Section: Religion As a Dependent Variable: Socialization Researchsupporting

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Religion and Family Life: An Overview of Current Research and Suggestions for Future Research

Vermeer

2014

Religions

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Abstract:The primary aim of this paper is to offer an overview of current research into the relationship between religion and family life and to offer suggestions for future research. In order to do this, the paper distinguishes between research in which religion is a dependent variable, labelled as socialization research, and research in which religion is an independent variable, referred to as research into family functioning. With regard to these areas of research, the paper, first, offers an overview of the most important insights existing research has generated thus far, after which some important shortcomings are identified and suggestions for future research are proposed. Subsequently, the paper offers some reflections on methodology and points out some strengths and weaknesses of existing research and offers methodological advice for future research. The paper closes by discussing how research into the relationship between religion and family life may contribute to an overall understanding of religion as such.

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Section: Religion As a Dependent Variable: Socialization Researchsupporting

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Religion and Family Life: An Overview of Current Research and Suggestions for Future Research

Vermeer

2014

Religions

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“…Although it is argued in the literature that people have a preference to marry a religiously similar spouse, marriage choice is also strongly determined by other factors, most notably by socio-economic status, structural opportunities to meet potential partners, and third parties, such as the family (Kalmijn 1998). Furthermore, it is generally assumed that the norms and values of the partner influence one's own opinions and behaviour, including one's religious commitment (Sherkat and Wilson 1995). The religion of immigrants presumably declines when immigrants marry a Dutch spouse, whereas religious commitment is strongly re-inforced by a co-ethnic spouse.…”

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Religious Affiliation and Participation among Immigrants in a Secular Society: A Study of Immigrants in The Netherlands

Tubergen¹

2007

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…2 Previous research on individual-level religious affiliation and fertility showed that while exogenous factors are important and can overcome demographic limitations, endogenous growth is foundational to large-scale changes in the religious landscape over time (Hout et al 2001;Kaufmann 2010;Stark 1996Stark , 2005. Children do not always adopt the religion of their parents and sometimes even rebel against it, but parents' religion is the strongest predictor of children's religion, and religious switching is influenced by the religious composition of the society in which it occurs (Bar-El et al 2013;Iannaccone 1998;Kelley and Graaf 1997;Sherkat and Wilson 1995). Specifically, when vertical cultural transmission from parent to child breaks down and switching occurs, horizontal cultural transmission determines the types of new religious beliefs and preferences people adopt Verdier 2000, 2011).…”

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“…A nation's religious environment plays an important role in the beliefs of its citizens, and their likelihood to become more or less religious apart from individual family environments (Bisin and Verdier 2000;Flor and Knapp 2001;Kelley and Graaf 1997;Sherkat and Wilson 1995). If countries with more secular populations have fewer children then-regardless of the reasons why the relationship exists-children will be less likely to be exposed to secular ideas, which would limit horizontal transmission of secular culture and exogenous secularization of the global population.…”

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Secularism and Fertility Worldwide

Schnabel¹

2016

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This study hypothesizes a link between societal secularism and fertility. Using country-level data from multiple sources (N=181) and multilevel data from 55 countries in the World Values Survey (N=78,639), I document a strong negative relationship between societal secularism and both country-level fertility rates and individual-level fertility behavior. Secularism, even in small amounts, is associated with population stagnation or even decline, whereas highly religious countries have higher fertility rates that promote population growth. This country-level pattern is driven by more than aggregate lower fertility of individual nonreligious people. In fact, secularism is more closely linked to religious than nonreligious people's fertility behavior and appears to be a function of different cultural values related to gender and reproduction in more secular societies. Beyond its importance for the religious composition of the world population, the societal-level association between secularism and fertility is relevant to key fertility theories and may help account, in part, for below-replacement fertility. Rather than religious people becoming a smaller proportion of the world population, demographers have projected that because the nonreligious have fewer children they will make up a smaller proportion of the world population over time (Hackett et al. 2015;Kaufmann 2010;Skirbekk, Kaufmann, and Goujon 2010;Stonawski et al. 2015). This literature improves on secularization theory by highlighting how individual-level secularity limits fertility behavior and thus constrains secularization, but has thus far neglected potential impacts of societal-level secularity despite secularism being more than just an individual attribute. Culture is transmitted, and religious beliefs and preferences acquired, both vertically (i.e., within families) and 1 "Religious" and "nonreligious" can be defined in many ways. Past research has often conceptualized secularism as the inverse of absence of religion, and work on religion and fertility in particularly has frequently focused on binary measures that categorize people as religious or not. In order to consider varieties of secularism, I examine multiple religion/non-religion measures, some of which are binary and some gradational, and aggregations of these items.Secularism and Fertility Worldwide 2 horizontally (i.e., peer-to-peer within the wider culture) Verdier 2000, 2011).Research on religion and fertility has highlighted how the lower fertility of secular individuals limits vertical transmission of secularism, has thus far largely neglected potential demographic limits to horizontal transmission of secularism. The key unanswered question is whether a country-level relationship exists between secularism and fertility net of individual-level religion, which would further constrain secularization-due to fewer children being socialized in more secular contexts-and could contribute to below-replacement fertility.To examine the country-level relationship between secularism and f...

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Preferences, Constraints, and Choices in Religious Markets: An Examination of Religious Switching and Apostasy

Cited by 188 publications

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Religion and Family Life: An Overview of Current Research and Suggestions for Future Research

Religion and Family Life: An Overview of Current Research and Suggestions for Future Research

Religious Affiliation and Participation among Immigrants in a Secular Society: A Study of Immigrants in The Netherlands

Secularism and Fertility Worldwide

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