The Impact of Protestant Fundamentalism on Educational Attainment

In-home firearm access among US adolescents and the role of religious subculture: Results from a nationally representative study

“…This finding complicates research on the effects of religion on adolescent health and safety risk factors, which generally finds protective effects of religious involvement and conservative religious groups Hill et al 2009;Dew et al 2008;Manglos 2013;Adamczyk and Felson 2012;Adamczyk and Palmer 2008;Wallace and Forman 1998;Harker 2001;Borowsky, Ireland, and Resnick 2001;Regnerus 2003). This study also adds to a growing body of research showing the importance of religious subcultures for life chances and the unfavorable influence of conservative Protestantism and conservative religious beliefs for a number of outcomes, extending this literature to the arena of an important health and safety risk factor (Cline and Ferraro 2006;Darnell and Sherkat 1997;Fitzgerald and Glass 2008;Glass and Jacobs 2005;Keister 2008;Massengill 2008;Sherkat and Darnell 1999;Emerson and Smith 2000;Ellison, Burr, and Mccall 2003;Sherkat 2010Sherkat , 2012Stroope, Franzen, and Uecker 2015;Uecker 2014;Lehrer 1999). 16 Catholic and Mainline Protestant interactions with religious attendance were marginally significant (p<.10).…”

“…First, similar to other research on religious subcultural effects (Stroope 2011b;Darnell and Sherkat 1997;Sherkat 2011;Keister 2008;Emerson, Smith, and Sikkink 1999), future firearm research should measure and model the mechanisms through which conservative Protestantism impacts in-home gun access. As outlined in this study, future research should consider the role of attitudes, information, and social networks for producing beliefs and behaviors regarding firearm access.…”

“…Conservative Protestants tend to have an oppositional stance toward secular institutions and have less regard for information provided by these institutions, which may include public safety recommendations regarding firearms. Maintaining tension with social institutions has been a hallmark of contemporary conservative Protestantism in America (Smith et al 1998 Darnell and Sherkat 1997;Sherkat and Darnell 1999;Sikkink 1999;Johnson, Scheitle, and Ecklund 2016). This tension may come from the -institutional reputation‖ that mainstream educational and scientific institutions are involved in liberalizing and secularizing society (Gross and Fosse 2012;Wuthnow 1988, 154-72).…”

Religion, Human Capital Investments, and the Family in the United States

“…Conservative Protestants stand out for their tendency to avoid cohabitation and enter marriage and childbearing at a young age (Lehrer 2004b;Glass and Jacobs 2005;Uecker and Stokes 2008;Fitzgerald and Glass 2008); their low level of education (Darnell and Sherkat 1997;Sherkat and Darnell 1999;Lehrer 1999;2004c;Glass and Jacobs 2005); greater asymmetry in the intra-household division of labor (Ellison and Bartkowski 2002); low levels of employment when young children are present in the household (Lehrer 1995;Sherkat 2000;Glass and Nath 2006); relatively high fertility (Lehrer 1996;Hout, Greeley and Wilde 2001); and low levels of female wages (Lehrer 2005) and of family wealth (Keister 2003(Keister , 2005(Keister , 2009a(Keister , 2009b. At the same time, non-Orthodox Jews tend to display opposite patterns, including delayed entry to marriage (Lehrer 2004b), low fertility (Mosher and Hendershot 1984); high educational attainment (Chiswick 1988;Lehrer 1999); high level of female employment except when young children are present in the household (Chiswick 1986;Hartman and Hartman 1996); high wages (Chiswick 1988;Lehrer 2005) and high levels of wealth (Keister 2003(Keister , 2005(Keister , 2009a).…”

Conservative Protestants and Wealth: How Religion Perpetuates Asset Poverty

“…3:9-10) It would not be at all strange, therefore, if from these [Biblical] teachings and facts men should have concluded that the pursuit of wealth was unchristian and wealth itself an evil rather than a good. (Mathews 1896, p. 774) The relationship between cultural orientation and material well-being is central to research in sociology, and concern about this relationship has fueled decades of intense debate regarding the material consequences of religious values (Darnell and Sherkat 1997;Featherman …”