Regional Migration and Religious Commitment in the United States

Stump, Roger W.

doi:10.2307/1386043

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“…Literature in the United States (see Warner 2000 andCadge 2008) notes how immigrant religious groups adapt to congregational forms of organization over time, containing many of the same attributes of American Protestant congregations. And primarily demonstrated among internal migrants, empirical evidence does support an accommodation hypothesis whereby migrants on the aggregate converge their religious patterns to that of the dominant society Stump 1984). Further comparison of the LSIC with additional data sources representing the host society's religious participation at a local level may be helpful in understanding how religious context more accurately shapes the frequency of immigrant religious participation.…”

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confidence: 99%

Immigrant Religiosity in Canada: Multiple Trajectories

Connor

2009

Int. Migration & Integration

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Although much research focuses on the economic and linguistic adaptation of immigrants to their new societies, it is rare to find research that studies the religious adaptation of immigrants at a national level. Using longitudinal data among immigrants to Canada in 2001, hypothesized trajectories of immigrant religiosity during initial settlement controlling for a number of individual and contextual level factors are explored. Religious group membership increases a few years after migration and then falls back to earlier levels within 4 years after migration. However, religious participation declines throughout the adaptation process, while the likelihood of religious volunteerism dramatically increases. The paper concludes with a brief discussion of potential explanations for these seemingly contradictory trajectories.Résumé Bien que les recherches sur l'adaptation économique et linguistique des immigrants à leur nouvelle société soient nombreuses, le thème de l'adaptation religieuse des immigrants au contexte national reste négligé. Puisant dans des données de l'Enquête longitudinale auprès des immigrants du Canada de 2001, ce travail s'intéresse aux trajectoires religieuses des immigrants au cours de la période d'installation, en contrôlant les facteurs individuels et contextuels. L'appartenance à un groupe religieux augmente dans les années suivant la migration avant de redescendre quatre ans plus tard au niveau initial. La participation religieuse décline tout au long du processus d'adaptation, alors que le volontariat religieux augmente fortement. L'article termine par une brève discussion des facteurs qui pourraient expliquer ces trajectoires à première vue contradictoires.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Immigrant Religiosity in Canada: Multiple Trajectories

Connor

2009

Int. Migration & Integration

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“…In a similar vein, because biblicist students are usually a minority in most colleges and universities, such students are more likely to encounter and form relational ties with peers who hold non-literalist views of the Bible or who believe in different scriptures such as the Bhagavad Gita, or who do respect any religious scriptures (Sherkat, 2007). Such dislocation from old plausibility structures and submersion in dominant networks and accompanying cultural beliefs is well documented in the migration and religion literature (Connor, 2009;Stump, 1984;Wuthnow and Christiano, 1979). Even most religious colleges are unlikely to promote a literalist interpretation of the Bible, and religiously conservative colleges make up a very small proportion of America's institutions of higher education.…”

Section: Resourcesmentioning

confidence: 91%

Education and religion: Individual, congregational, and cross-level interaction effects on biblical literalism

Stroope¹

2016

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a b s t r a c tUsing ideas from cultural and organizational theory, I examine the interplay of individual and congregation-level educational attainment on biblical literalism. Data on 387 congregations and 100,009 worshippers (US Congregational Life Survey, 2001) are used to test hypotheses. Results indicate that the effects of congregational education and individual educational attainment are among the largest effects in models. This study is the first to show that regardless of an individual's own education, affirmations of biblical literalism are less likely when persons with higher education dominate a congregation. This finding brings into relief the important role of social context in persons' belief in biblical literalism. Additionally, congregational education amplifies the influence of individual education on biblical literalism such that the gap in belief between college/non-college education individuals widens in high education congregations. This finding suggests that high education persons more deeply absorb the influence of a more educated congregational context.

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“…In other words, social integration makes it more likely that church attendance is normative. The adjustment of migrants to the levels of religious participation in their new environments demonstrates both variation (Stump 1984). Although church attendance is normative in most Christian communities, it is expected that "those with high status will conform most closely to group norms" such as church attendance (Lee 1992:11).…”

Section: Social Forces 87(4)mentioning

confidence: 99%