Religion, Secularization, and the Shaping of the Culture Industry in Antebellum America

Moore, R. Laurence

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“…All else being equal, we assumed that parents choosing a higher proportion of biblical names for their children either: (a) held more deeply felt religious beliefs than parents choosing a higher proportion of secular names, or (b), were less open to sources outside of religion for authoritative positions on various topics, including contraception and abortion (Chaves 1994; Yamane 1997; Moore 1989) than parents choosing a higher proportion of secular names. Some measurement error is inevitable, of course.…”

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The impact of kin availability, parental religiosity, and nativity on fertility differentials in the late 19th-century United States

Hacker¹,

Roberts²

2017

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METHODS Most quantitative research on fertility decline in the United States ignores the potential impact of cultural and familial factors. We rely on new complete-count data from the 1880 U.S. census to construct couple-level measures of nativity/ethnicity, religiosity, and kin availability. We include these measures with a comprehensive set of demographic, economic, and contextual variables in Poisson regression models of net marital fertility to assess their relative importance. We construct models with and without area fixed effects to control for unobserved heterogeneity. CONTRIBUTION All else being equal, we find a strong impact of nativity on recent net marital fertility. Fertility differentials among second generation couples relative to the native-born white population of native parentage were in most cases less than half of the differential observed among first generation immigrants, suggesting greater assimilation to native-born American childbearing norms. Our measures of parental religiosity and familial propinquity indicated a more modest impact on marital fertility. Couples who chose biblical names for their children had approximately 3% more children than couples relying on secular names while the presence of a potential mother-in-law in a nearby households was associated with 2% more children. Overall, our results demonstrate the need for more inclusive models of fertility behavior that include cultural and familial covariates.

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Section: Measurement Of Nativity and Religiositymentioning

confidence: 99%

The impact of kin availability, parental religiosity, and nativity on fertility differentials in the late 19th-century United States

Hacker¹,

Roberts²

2017

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“…All else being equal, I assumed that parents choosing a higher proportion of biblical names for their children either (1) held more deeply felt religious beliefs than parents choosing a higher proportion of secular names, or (2) were less open to sources outside of religion for authoritative positions on various topics, including contraception and abortion (Chaves 1994; Moore 1989; Yamane 1997). Although some measurement error is inevitable, the use of children’s names represents a rare opportunity to evaluate the impact of parental religiosity on marital fertility during the fertility transition (van Poppel and Derosas 2006).…”

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Ready, Willing, and Able? Impediments to the Onset of Marital Fertility Decline in the United States

Hacker

2016

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This study relies on IPUMS samples of the 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880 censuses, aggregate census data, and the timing of state laws criminalizing abortion to construct regional estimates of marital fertility in the United States and estimate correlates of marital fertility. The results show a significant lag between the onset of marital fertility decline in the nation’s northeastern census divisions and its onset in western and southern census divisions. Empirical models indicate the presence of cultural, economic, and legal impediments to the diffusion of marital fertility control and illustrate the need for more inclusive models of fertility decline.

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“…The two foremost American advertising agencies, J. Walter Thompson (JWT), founded in 1864 in New York, and N. W. Ayer & Sons, founded in 1869 in Philadelphia, both enjoyed very close connections to the Christian publishing industry on the eastern seaboard and in the mid-West. The rapid growth of JWT, Ayer's and many other American advertising agencies was propelled by a thriving market for religious weekly magazines, monthlies and annuals (Goldstein and Haveman, 2010;Lears, 1994: 46-53, 138-147;Moore, 1989). The strong relationship between religious organizations and the printing press had its roots in the belief that the Kingdom of God needed the convictions and actions of human beings in order to be brought about.…”

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The market order as metaphysical loot: Theology and the contested legitimacy of consumer capitalism

Schwarzkopf

2012

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The mechanism through which the ideology of market capitalism emerged has mostly been interpreted as part of an incremental, inevitable, and thus legitimate ousting of theological concepts from a public sphere that became organized around the principles of the Enlightenment as a secular project. This article stresses the illegitimate aspects of this process, that is the expropriation and re-appropriation of theological devices and ideas for what was merely an alternative political-theological project. This project, namely the establishment of the priesthood of the individualized ‘common man’, allowed for the mobilization of individual choice as a principle of social organization. The same process was responsible for underpinning the often unjust and illiberal market order with the vision of the world as an ordered and benign kosmos that emerged spontaneously from chaos.

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Religion, Secularization, and the Shaping of the Culture Industry in Antebellum America

Cited by 20 publications

References 10 publications

The impact of kin availability, parental religiosity, and nativity on fertility differentials in the late 19th-century United States

The impact of kin availability, parental religiosity, and nativity on fertility differentials in the late 19th-century United States

Ready, Willing, and Able? Impediments to the Onset of Marital Fertility Decline in the United States

The market order as metaphysical loot: Theology and the contested legitimacy of consumer capitalism

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