Types of Denominational Switching among Protestant Young Adults

Hoge, Robert D.; Johnson, Benton; Luidens, Donald A.

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“…Research on Presbyterian young adults by Hoge, Johnson, and Luidens (1995) suggested that those who switched church membership were more church involved (whether greater church attendance or frequency of prayer) than nonswitchers. The control measure switched religious affiliation was coded such that 1 included those who identified a specific religious preference in Round 9 different from what their parents identified in Round 1 and those who identified a specific religious preference in Round 9 whose parents identified no religious preference in Round 1; switched religious affiliation coded 0 included all others, that is, those whose religious affiliation in Round 9 was the same as their parents in Round 1 and those who reported no religious affiliation in Round 9 but whose parents reported a specific religious affiliation in Round 1.…”

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Religious Capital and Intergenerational Transmission of Volunteering as Correlates of Civic Engagement

Caputo

2008

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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Using a subsample of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY97), this study (N = 2,471) provides evidence in support of social capital and socialization theories. Intergenerational transmission of civic engagement activities was found to occur through mechanisms such as parental religiosity and voluntarism. Using multinomial logistic regression analysis, correlates of four types of civic engagement were examined: mixed motivation voluntarism (voluntary participation in activist and nonactivist activities, n = 401), exclusively activist (n = 109), exclusive voluntarism (n = 652), and as the referent non-civic minded (no voluntary participation in either activist or nonactivist activities, n = 1,309). Parental voluntarism, socialization, religious participation, education, and presence of children were found to be robust predictors of mixed motivation voluntarism; parental devotion, presence of children, and race/ethnicity, of exclusive activism; and parental religious affiliation and fundamentalism, socialization, and religious participation, self-perceived sense of trustfulness, presence of children, and race/ethnicity of exclusive voluntarism.

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Religious Capital and Intergenerational Transmission of Volunteering as Correlates of Civic Engagement

Caputo

2008

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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“…First, some may leave for religious differences, such as having lost a belief in the spiritual or dogmatic aspects of the church. Theological dissatisfaction and changes in religiosity are important predictors of leaving a religious faith (Hoge, et al, 1995, Sands, et al, 2006). However, research suggests that those with no religious affiliation are not necessarily atheist or agnostic; self-identified atheists make up a very small percentage of the US population (Hout and Fischer, 2002).…”

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Leaving my religion: Understanding the relationship between religious disaffiliation, health, and well-being

Fenelon

Danielsen

2016

Social Science Research

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Religious disaffiliation—leaving the religious tradition in which one was raised for no religious affiliation in adulthood—has become more common in recent years, though few studies have examined its consequences for the health and well-being of individuals. We use an innovative approach, comparing the health and subjective well-being of religious disaffiliates to those who remain affiliated using pooled General Social Survey samples from 1973 through 2012. We find that religious disaffiliates experience poorer health and lower well-being than those consistently affiliated and those who are consistently unaffiliated. We also demonstrate that the disadvantage for those who leave religious traditions is completely mediated by the frequency of church attendance, as disaffiliates attend church less often. Our results point to the importance of the social processes surrounding religious disaffiliation and emphasize the role of dynamics in the relationship between religious affiliation and health.

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“…Although social scientists have given substantial attention to religious conversion, denominational switching, and spiritual transformation (e.g., Hadaway and Marler 1993; Koss‐Chioino and Heffner 2006; Rambo 1993; Ullman 1989), their interest wanes when it comes to the later process of social integration. Considering the commonness of switching between denominations and conversion in the United States (Hoge, Johnson, and Luidens 1995; Newport 1979; Roof 1989; Roof and Hadaway 1979; Stark and Glock 1968) and the increasing presence of immigrants who wish to practice a religion in American communities (Cadge and Ecklund 2007), the problem of integrating newcomers into preexisting religious communities is significant.…”

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The Social Integration of Baalei Teshuvah

Sands

2009

Scientific Study of Religion

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This article focuses on the perceptions of baalei teshuvah, Jews who were raised with little identification with Judaism as a religious system and subsequently became Orthodox, as an example of the social integration of a group that migrates from one community to another. The baalei teshuvah participants perceived themselves as unique and distinct from those who were raised Orthodox and preferred to associate with others like themselves. They experienced a mixture of pride in their own religious fervor and embarrassment over their lack of knowledge compared with those who grew up Orthodox. At the same time they expressed ambivalent feelings toward Jews who were raised Orthodox. Immigration theory and the concepts of human, social, religious, and spiritual capital are used to discuss the baalei teshuvah's marginal status and preference to associate with other baalei teshuvah.Although social scientists have given substantial attention to religious conversion, denominational switching, and spiritual transformation (e.

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Types of Denominational Switching among Protestant Young Adults

Cited by 24 publications

References 6 publications

Religious Capital and Intergenerational Transmission of Volunteering as Correlates of Civic Engagement

Religious Capital and Intergenerational Transmission of Volunteering as Correlates of Civic Engagement

Leaving my religion: Understanding the relationship between religious disaffiliation, health, and well-being

The Social Integration of Baalei Teshuvah

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