2002
DOI: 10.2307/3088891
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Why More Americans Have No Religious Preference: Politics and Generations

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“…Furthermore, these cohort effects were particularly strong for the baby boomer cohorts, who came of age in the 1960s (Schwadel 2010). Hout and Fischer (2002) suggest that the rise in religious nonaffiliation may be a legacy of the social disruption of the 1960s, which caused many to turn away from organized religion. If this is true, then we would expect that cohorts who came of age during this time period may continue to hold more religious beliefs and practices than those who came before and after.…”
Section: Cohort Changementioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Furthermore, these cohort effects were particularly strong for the baby boomer cohorts, who came of age in the 1960s (Schwadel 2010). Hout and Fischer (2002) suggest that the rise in religious nonaffiliation may be a legacy of the social disruption of the 1960s, which caused many to turn away from organized religion. If this is true, then we would expect that cohorts who came of age during this time period may continue to hold more religious beliefs and practices than those who came before and after.…”
Section: Cohort Changementioning
confidence: 99%
“…The η parameter gives the difference in this linear trend for the unaffiliated before the year 2000. The dilution hypothesis proposed by Hout and Fischer (2002) expects this term to be positive, indicating a convergence in scores between the affiliated and unaffiliated before 2000. The parameter γ for the main effect of the spline term gives the change in the linear trend for those with a religious affiliation after 2000.…”
Section: Attendmentioning
confidence: 99%
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