Religious socialization of non-religious university students

Dahl, Karoliina; Novis-Deutsch, Nurit; Klingenberg, Maria; Kontala, Janne; Sztajer, Sławomir; Mussel, Avivit

doi:10.1080/0048721x.2019.1584355

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“…Correspondingly, we expect to see decreases in those traits among those who have deconverted from Christianity. The loss of religious socialization (or sometimes, actively irreligious socialization; Dahl et al, 2019; Thiessen & Wilkins-Laflamme, 2017) should result in the loss of “religious habits.”…”

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Religion and the Development of Character: Personality Changes Before and After Religious Conversion and Deconversion

Stronge

Bulbulia

Davis

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Social Psychological and Personality Science

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Previous longitudinal research indicates that although religion may affect how personality traits are expressed, religion does not affect people's underlying personalities. However, such research has drawn from small North American samples and relatively short time intervals that do not include data from individuals prior to conversion. Here, we use a representative national sample of New Zealand adults over 9 years (2009–2017, N = 31,604) and piecewise latent growth models to assess longitudinal change in Big Five personality and Honesty-Humility before and after conversion to/deconversion from Christianity ( N = 540 converts, N = 886 deconverts). We observed no personality changes before conversion or after deconversion. However, we observed increases in Honesty-Humility, Conscientiousness, and Neuroticism following conversion. We also observed increases in Honesty-Humility and decreases in Agreeableness preceding deconversion. These findings indicate that religious conversion initiates specific changes in character, the most pronounced of which relate to increases in modesty and greed-avoidance.

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Section: Background To the Present Studymentioning

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Religion and the Development of Character: Personality Changes Before and After Religious Conversion and Deconversion

Stronge

Bulbulia

Davis

et al. 2020

Social Psychological and Personality Science

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“…Consequently, when considering religious socialization, or non-religious socialization, it is important to consider the different spaces, places and agents that contribute to this, including the agency of children themselves (Kwaku Golo et al 2019;Strhan and Shillitoe 2019). Specifically, when considering the rise of non-religion, it is crucial to pay attention to the everyday and often mundane encounters with religion as experiences that can shape and impact the socialization of non-religious children (Strhan and Shillitoe 2019;Dahl et al 2019). Given that schools often become a particular site of contestation in relation to the place of religion in public life, we need to ensure that children's voices and experiences of religion and non-religion are heard in relation to these debates.…”

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‘Just leave it blank’ non-religious children and their negotiation of prayer in school

Shillitoe

Strhan

2020

Religion

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This article examines how non-religious children experience acts of collective worship and prayer in primary school settings and analyses how they negotiate religion and their nonreligious identities in these events. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork examining nonreligious childhoods and collective worship in three English primary schools, the authors explore how non-religious children demonstrate their agency when confronted with particular boundaries and concepts related to religion and non-religion in school contexts. Attending to the experiences, perspectives, and practices of non-religious children adds to our understanding of the varieties of non-religion, which has to date largely focused on elite, adult populations.Focusing on non-religious children's experiences of prayer reveals how these children did not experience tensions between praying to God and their non-religious identities and articulated their own interpretations of these practices, deepening understanding of the lived realities of non-religious cultures and identities.

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“…While the findings point to the continuous role of primary socialization agents in the lives of young adults, notions of agency also permeate the accounts from those interviewed. Dahl et al (2019) in turn highlight how identification as non-religious sometimes implies that the young adult has taken a stand and decided against the religious provision provided by his or her family.…”

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“…Moberg et al (2019) build on the fast growing field of media, religion and socialization research and analyze the role of media in religious socialization in Ghana, Peru and Turkey. The article from Dahl et al (2019), in turn, provide interesting insights into how young people understand the interplay between different socialization agents on their paths toward the non-religious worldviews they currently hold.…”

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“…In this issue, one article clearly reflects this general aim of the project. By analyzing the religious socialization of those who identify as non-religious, Dahl et al (2019) explore the boundaries for religious socialization as a concept by applying it on a social phenomenon that has seldom been studied within this frame. When non-religion is understood as socially anchored and analyzed from a socialization perspective, questions regarding how young people in different cultural contexts reach these positions and who the important agents are in this process are raised.…”

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Theorizing religious socialization: a critical assessment

Klingenberg

Sjö

2019

Religion

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Religious socialization remains a widely used concept amongst scholars who direct attention to the social patterns that underline the formation of religious attitudes. This article presents contemporary conceptualizations of religious socialization and provides an overview of how the concept is used in empirical studies. As the article sets the frame for the thematic issue at hand, it contains a presentation of the research project that the findings reported depart from. In line with the findings reported in the articles, we argue for an expanded understanding of religious socialization, formulated as four points. Finally, a definition of religious socialization that accounts for these four points is proposed.

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Religious socialization of non-religious university students

Cited by 9 publications

References 22 publications

Religion and the Development of Character: Personality Changes Before and After Religious Conversion and Deconversion

Religion and the Development of Character: Personality Changes Before and After Religious Conversion and Deconversion

‘Just leave it blank’ non-religious children and their negotiation of prayer in school

Theorizing religious socialization: a critical assessment

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