Context Matters: Effects of the Proportion of Fundamentalists on Gender Attitudes

Moore, Laura M.; Vanneman, Reeve

doi:10.1353/sof.2003.0099

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“…The relationship between view of the Bible and traditional marital surnames is significant and strong, even when controlling for other influences. Our findings in this regard are a logical extension of previous research that shows literal views of the Bible associated with more traditional views of gender [25,43,44] and more traditional attitudes toward marital name-change [11]. Our findings on Biblical literalism are important for another reason.…”

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confidence: 82%

Marital Naming Plans among Students at Four Evangelical Colleges

2014

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Despite increasingly egalitarian gender roles in the United States, when the wedding bells ring for heterosexual couples, husband and wife still commonly emerge sharing the man's last name. Largely missing from previous studies of marital name change is the influence of religion. We examine the marital naming plans of 199 students from four Evangelical colleges. Nearly all these students planned to marry and more than 80% planned to follow the traditional naming pattern for their gender. Bivariate correlations and logistic regression models reveal that private prayer and more literal views of the Bible correspond to plans for a traditional marital surname. Yet, only a small minority of students evoked religious language to justify their surname choice. Gender roles, identity, and tradition were dominant themes in their explanations. Whether recognized or not, personal religiosity and the model of marriage cultivated in religious families guide the marital naming intentions of Evangelical students. Thus, religion operates as an invisible influence shaping ideals of marriage and family within Evangelical subculture.

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Marital Naming Plans among Students at Four Evangelical Colleges

2014

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“…State-level research in the United States has shown that the more religious fundamentalism in a state, the more conservative the individual gender attitudes of people who live in that state, even apart from the individual's own religiosity (Moore and Vanneman 2003). Similarly, cross-national research on welfare attitudes has shown that the religious composition of a country can influence individual attitudes (VanHeuvelen 2014).…”

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Religion and Gender Equality Worldwide: A Country-Level Analysis

Schnabel

2015

Soc Indic Res

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Does religion help or hinder gender equality worldwide? Are some major world religions more conducive to equality than others? This study answers these questions using country-level data assembled from multiple sources. Much of the research on religion and gender has focused on the relationship between individual religious belief and practice and gender attitudes. This study, alternatively, compares the macro effects of the proportion of religious adherents in a country on two indicators of material gender equality: the United Nations Gender Inequality Index and the Social Watch Gender Equity Index. Comparing the world's four largest religious groups reveals that the largest distinction is not between any of the three largest faiths-Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism-but between the religious and the non-religious. The more non-religious people in a country, the more gender equal that country tends to be. This finding holds when accounting for human development and other country-level factors, as well as in instrumental variable analysis.

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“…There is evidence that the religious context-measured through religious affiliation, belief, or behaviorof an area or state is significantly associated with a host of outcomes. The degree to which an area contains a greater proportion of particular religious traditions can influence cohabitation rates (Gault-Sherman & Draper, 2012), crime (Beyerlein & Hipp, 2005), gender attitudes (Moore & Vanneman, 2003), same-sex policy outcomes (Scheitle & Hahn, 2011), and population health (Blanchard et al, 2008). Strayhorn and Strayhorn (2009) (Kingston & Malamuth, 2011;Robinson, 1950;Schuessler, 1999).…”

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Unbuckling the Bible Belt: A State-level Analysis of Religious Factors and Google Searches for Porn

Whitehead¹,

Perry²

2017

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While the link between individual religious characteristics and pornography consumption is well established, relatively little research has considered how the wider religious context may influence pornography use. Exceptions in the literature to date have relied on relatively broad, subjective measures of religious commitment, largely ignoring issues of religious belonging, belief, or practice. This study moves the conversation forward by examining how a variety of state-level religious factors predict Google searches for the term "porn," net of relevant sociodemographic and ideological controls. Our multivariate findings indicate that higher percentages of evangelical Protestants, theists, and Biblical literalists in a state predict higher frequencies of searching for "porn," as do higher church attendance rates. Conversely, higher percentages of religiously unaffiliated persons in a state predict lower frequencies of searching for "porn." Higher percentages of total religious adherents, Catholics, or Mainline Protestants in a state are unrelated to searching for "porn" with controls in place. Contrary to recent research, our analyses also show that higher percentages of political conservatives in a state predicted lower frequencies of "porn" searches. Our findings support theories that more salient, traditional religious influences in a state may influence residents-whether religious or not-toward more covert sexual experiences.

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Context Matters: Effects of the Proportion of Fundamentalists on Gender Attitudes

Cited by 147 publications

References 45 publications

Marital Naming Plans among Students at Four Evangelical Colleges

Marital Naming Plans among Students at Four Evangelical Colleges

Religion and Gender Equality Worldwide: A Country-Level Analysis

Unbuckling the Bible Belt: A State-level Analysis of Religious Factors and Google Searches for Porn

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