Do as I Say and as I Do: the Effects of Consistent Parental Beliefs and Behaviors upon Religious Transmission

Bader, Christopher D.; Desmond, Scott A.

doi:10.1093/socrel/67.3.313

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“…Many studies show that the faith attitudes and behaviors of parents strongly predict those of their children (Bader & Desmond, 2006;Flor & Knapp, 2001;Heaven, Ciarrochi, & Leeson, 2010;Holden, Bayan, Baruah, & Holland, 2013;Martin, White, & Perlman, 2003;Petts, 2015), and this predictive relationship holds true for both the public and private components of faith (Leonard, Cook, Boyatzis, Kimball, & Flanagan, 2012). Parental religiosity is associated with healthy and unhealthy faith attitudes and practices (Holden et al, 2013;Power & McKinney, 2013).…”

Section: Faith Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Religiosity, Developmental Context, and Sexual Shame in Pornography Users: A Serial Mediation Model

Volk

Thomas

Sosin

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Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity

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Section: Faith Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Religiosity, Developmental Context, and Sexual Shame in Pornography Users: A Serial Mediation Model

Volk

Thomas

Sosin

et al. 2016

Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity

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“…The family socialization of religious beliefs and behaviors occurs in several different ways. One of the most common predictors of children’s religiosity has been the frequency of parents’ church attendance (Bader & Desmond, 2006; Bao et al, 1999; Day et al, 2009; Pearce & Thornton, 2007; Zhai, Ellison, Glenn, & Marquardt, 2007). Other studies have shown that the centrality or salience of religious beliefs is also important.…”

Section: Evidence For the Intergenerational Continuity Of Religiositymentioning

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Incorporating religiosity into a developmental model of positive family functioning across generations.

Spilman¹,

Neppl²,

Donnellan³

et al. 2013

Developmental Psychology

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This study evaluated a developmental model of intergenerational continuity in religiosity and its association with observed competency in romantic and parent-child relationships across two generations. Using multi-informant data from the Family Transitions Project, a 20-year longitudinal study of families that began during early adolescence (N = 451), we found that parental religiosity assessed during the youth’s adolescence was positively related to the youth’s own religiosity during adolescence which, in turn, predicted their religiosity after the transition to adulthood. The findings also supported the theoretical model guiding the study, which proposes that religiosity acts as a personal resource that will be uniquely and positively associated with the quality of family relationships. Especially important, the findings demonstrate support for the role of religiosity in a developmental process that promotes positive family functioning after addressing earlier methodological limitations in this area of study, such as cross-sectional research designs, single informant measurement, retrospective reports, and the failure to control for other individual differences.

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“…But sociologists also know that religion is a multifaceted area of social life (Stark and Glock 1968), consisting of distinct domains such as religious practice and belief. Scholars often differentiate between external religiosity (e.g., church volunteering) and internal religiosity (e.g., beliefs and cognitions), both as outcomes (Barrett et al 2007) and as independent variables with distinct effects (cf., Bader and Desmond 2006;Nonnemaker et al 2006). But the question remains: to what degree are religious activities, and religious beliefs tied to social embeddedness in religious congregations?…”

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Social Networks and Religion: The Role of Congregational Social Embeddedness in Religious Belief and Practice

Stroope¹

2011

Sociology of Religion

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Previous literature argues that social networks influence religiosity, but surprisingly, no studies have used national data of a variety of religious traditions to assess the relationship between embeddedness in congregation-based friendship networks and different dimensions of religiosity. This study uses new national data (Baylor Religion Survey 2007) to estimate models of religious activity (church activities and devotional activities) and of religious belief (supernatural beliefs, biblical literalism, and religious exclusivity). Among U.S. Christians, congregational social embeddedness is a robust predictor of all religiosity outcomes and is among the largest effects in models. These effects are not substantially moderated by religious tradition, although Catholic affiliation attenuates the positive relationship between social embeddedness and church activities. These findings strongly suggest that social sanctions and solidarity rewards within congregational social networks play an important role in heightening religiosity. Religious research would be enhanced by devoting greater attention to the importance of congregational social embeddedness.

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Do as I Say and as I Do: the Effects of Consistent Parental Beliefs and Behaviors upon Religious Transmission

Cited by 105 publications

References 18 publications

Religiosity, Developmental Context, and Sexual Shame in Pornography Users: A Serial Mediation Model

Religiosity, Developmental Context, and Sexual Shame in Pornography Users: A Serial Mediation Model

Incorporating religiosity into a developmental model of positive family functioning across generations.

Social Networks and Religion: The Role of Congregational Social Embeddedness in Religious Belief and Practice

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