Passing on the Faith: The Father's Role in Religious Transmission

Baker-Sperry, Lori

doi:10.1080/00380237.2001.10571190

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“…On the other hand, Petts () uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1988–2004) to conduct group‐based trajectory modeling, and proposes that there are six trajectories of religious service attendance—three of which are stable trajectories (nonattenders, occasional attenders, and frequent attenders) and three trajectories that are of religious participation decline (early declining attenders, late declining attenders, and gradual declining attenders). In all of these trajectories, as supported by prior research (Baker‐Sperry ; Myers ; Wilcox, Chaves, and Franz ), religious affiliation and family contextual factors are found to be significantly associated with the stability or decline of religious participation.…”

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Religious Pathways from Adolescence to Adulthood

Lee

Pearce

Schorpp

2017

Scientific Study of Religion

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Prior research suggests the significance of religion for development and wellbeing in adolescence and beyond. Further, new developments and applications of statistical methods have led to ways of better accounting for the multidimensional nature of religiosity (e.g. latent class analysis), as well as the dynamic aspects of religiosity (e.g. latent growth curve models). Yet, rarely if ever are both features of religiosity incorporated and examined together. Therefore, we propose and conduct a latent class analysis using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) to identify seven distinct pathways of religiosity that involve independently changing levels of religious affiliation, religious service attendance, personal importance of religion, and prayer from adolescence to adulthood. We also show how individuals’ religious pathways are related to gender, race, parents’ education, their own education, and family formation experiences in the transition to adulthood. Our findings inform the study of how multiple dimensions of religiosity take shape across adolescence and the transition to adulthood, and suggest a new way for measuring the dynamics of religiosity in studies of the impact of religion across the life course.

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Religious Pathways from Adolescence to Adulthood

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Pearce

Schorpp

2017

Scientific Study of Religion

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“…Although the mother‐child relationship is important (Pearce and Axinn 1998), fathers have become increasingly involved in children's lives (Petts 2007). Moreover, fathers may have a greater influence on the religious behavior of male youth than mothers (Baker‐Sperry 2001). Unfortunately, the NLSY79 does not allow for a full exploration of the influence of fathers on youth's religious participation, but future research should examine the role that both fathers and mothers play in influencing youth religiosity.…”

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Trajectories of Religious Participation from Adolescence to Young Adulthood

Petts¹

2009

Scientific Study of Religion

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Using a life course approach, this study examines trajectories of religious participation from early adolescence through young adulthood. Distinct patterns of religious participation are identified, providing insight into how trajectories are shaped by family and religious characteristics and demonstrating the influence of life events on changes in religious participation. The study employs a group-based method of trajectory analysis, identifying three trajectories of stable religious participation (nonattendance, occasional attendance, and frequent attendance) and three trajectories of change (early, late, and gradual declining attendance). Residing with two biological parents and in a religious family increases the likelihood that youth attend religious services throughout adolescence. Religious disaffiliation is associated with lower religious participation for youth in all trajectories; marriage, cohabitation, and religious switching/conversion are associated with changes in participation among youth in the frequent and occasional attendance trajectories only.Recent studies suggest that religion is a significant part of life for many adolescents and young adults (Regnerus 2007;Smith and Denton 2005). Most youth believe in God; approximately half of all adolescents attend religious services regularly and believe that religion is a fairly important part of their lives (Smith and Denton 2005). Although these studies advance our knowledge about overall rates of youth religious involvement, less is known about how religiosity may change over time (Smith et al. 2003). It is generally believed that religious participation declines during adolescence and young adulthood and then increases later in adulthood as individuals marry and have children (Benson and King 2005; Stolzenberg, Blair-Loy, and Waite 1995; Uecker, Regnerus, and Vaaler 2007). However, youth may follow a variety of religious participation trajectories (Smith and Denton 2005).Two recent studies provide support for this argument. Regnerus and Uecker (2006) describe dramatic religious changes over a one-year period in adolescence, finding that religious change is more likely to occur in late adolescence (i.e., age 18) and that 5 percent of youth experience a large increase in religious participation while 6 percent of youth experience a large decrease in religious participation. Another study finds that 69 percent of youth attend religious services less frequently in young adulthood than in adolescence (Uecker, Regnerus, and Vaaler 2007). These studies provide some insight into the frequency of religious change among youth, but less is known about the ways in which these changes occur. Do youth experience a life-changing event that leads to a dramatic religious change, or does change occur more gradually? When is religious change most likely to occur, and what causes these religious changes during adolescence?Because religion is an important part of life for many youth, understanding whether youth follow a trajectory of religious stability or when and wh...

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“…In addition, our CREDs scale asked participants to complete the items based on their "overall impression" of their caregiver's actions, with the intent of obtaining an average of the actions of different individuals. Future research should explore the effects of CREDs performed by individual caregivers, which would allow for the evaluation of hypotheses about the relative importance of mothers and fathers (Baker-Sperry, 2001;Francis & Brown, 1990;Francis & Gibson, 1993) and of consistency between caregivers (Bader & Desmond, 2006;Hoge, Petrillo, & Smith;1982;Myers, 1996) in comparison to CREDs exposure.…”

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Religious actions speak louder than words: exposure to credibility-enhancing displays predicts theism

Lanman

Buhrmester

2016

Religion, Brain & Behavior

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One of the central aims of the cognitive science of religion (CSR) is to explain why supernatural agent beliefs are so widespread. A related but distinct aim is to explain why some individuals hold supernatural agent beliefs but others do not. Here, we aim to provide an initial test of the power of exposure to what Henrich calls "credibility enhancing displays" (or "CREDs") in determining whether or not an individual holds explicit supernatural agent beliefs. We present evidence from two studies of Americans suggesting that exposure to CREDs, as measured by a scale we developed and validated, predicts current theism vs. non-theism, certainty of God's existence/non-existence, and religiosity while controlling for overall religious socialization. These results are among the first to empirically support the theorized significance of CREDs for the acquisition of supernatural agent beliefs.

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Passing on the Faith: The Father's Role in Religious Transmission

Cited by 18 publications

References 16 publications

Religious Pathways from Adolescence to Adulthood

Religious Pathways from Adolescence to Adulthood

Trajectories of Religious Participation from Adolescence to Young Adulthood

Religious actions speak louder than words: exposure to credibility-enhancing displays predicts theism

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