Transmission of Religiosity Across Generations: Historical, Cohort, and Relational Dynamics.

IF 2.2 1区哲学 0 RELIGION

Sociology of Religion Pub Date : 2026-03-17 DOI:10.1093/socrel/sraf029

Merril Silverstein, Woosang Hwang, Joonsik Yoon, Wencheng Zhang, Jeung Hyun Kim, Kent Jason Cheng, Maria Teresa Brown

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Abstract

This investigation examined how intergenerational transmission of subjective religious intensity varies across historical periods, birth cohorts, and depends on emotional closeness and type of relationship between parents and children. Principles from the life course perspective specified how these various social factors moderate the strength of religious transmission. Data derived from 8,341 dyads of parents and children from four generations participating in the Longitudinal Study of Generations between 1971 - 2016. Multilevel ordered logit regression indicated that parental transmission of religious intensity was weaker to baby-boom children compared to children in the previous cohort. Parental transmission was also stronger to children in biological/adoptive relationships compared to step-relationships, and in relationships that were emotionally closer compared to less emotionally close. Demonstrating how intergenerational religious transmission is patterned by temporal and relational qualities sets the stage for future research on the reproduction of religiosity during a period of rapid religious and family change.

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宗教性的代际传递：历史、群体和关系动力学。

本研究考察了主观宗教强度的代际传递如何在不同的历史时期、出生队列中发生变化，并取决于父母与子女之间的情感亲密度和关系类型。从生命历程的角度来看，这些原则说明了这些不同的社会因素如何调节宗教传播的强度。数据来自8341对父母和四代人的孩子，他们参与了1971年至2016年的世代纵向研究。多水平有序logit回归表明，父母对宗教强度的传递在婴儿潮儿童中较前一队列儿童弱。父母对孩子的遗传在亲生/收养关系中也比在继父/继母的关系中更强，在情感上更亲密的关系中比在情感上不那么亲密的关系中更强。展示了代际宗教传播是如何通过时间和关系特征来形成模式的，这为未来在宗教和家庭快速变化时期对宗教信仰再生产的研究奠定了基础。

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期刊介绍： Sociology of Religion, the official journal of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, is published quarterly for the purpose of advancing scholarship in the sociological study of religion. The journal publishes original (not previously published) work of exceptional quality and interest without regard to substantive focus, theoretical orientation, or methodological approach. Although theoretically ambitious, empirically grounded articles are the core of what we publish, we also welcome agenda setting essays, comments on previously published works, critical reflections on the research act, and interventions into substantive areas or theoretical debates intended to push the field ahead. Sociology of Religion has published work by renowned scholars from Nancy Ammerman to Robert Wuthnow. Robert Bellah, Niklas Luhmann, Talcott Parsons, and Pitirim Sorokin all published in the pages of this journal. More recently, articles published in Sociology of Religion have won the ASA Religion Section’s Distinguished Article Award (Rhys Williams in 2000) and the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion’s Distinguished Article Award (Matthew Lawson in 2000 and Fred Kniss in 1998). Building on this legacy, Sociology of Religion aspires to be the premier English-language publication for sociological scholarship on religion and an essential source for agenda-setting work in the field.