%0 Journal Article
%T Religious Heterogamy and the Intergenerational Transmission of Religion: A Cross-National Analysis
%J Religions | An Open Access Journal from MDPI
%D 2019
%R https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10020109
%X This study examines the effect of religious heterogamy on the transmission of religion from one generation to the next. Using data from 37 countries in the 2008 Religion III Module of the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP), I conduct a cross-national analysis of the relationship between parentsĄŻ religious heterogamy and their adult childrensĄŻ religious lives. By estimating fixed effects regression models, I adjust for national-level confounders to examine patterns of association between having interreligious parents during childhood and level of adult religiosity as measured by self-rated religiousness, belief in God, and frequencies of religious attendance and prayer. The results indicate that having religiously heterogamous parents or parents with dissimilar religious attendance patterns are both associated with lower overall religiosity in respondents. ParentsĄŻ religious attendance, however, mediates the relationship when each parent has a different religion. Having one unaffiliated parent is associated with lower religiosity regardless of parentsĄŻ levels of religious attendance. The negative impact of parentsĄŻ religious heterogamy on religious inheritance is independent of national-level factors and has implications for anticipating changes in the religious landscapes of societies characterized by religious diversity and growing numbers of interreligious marriages. View Full-Tex
%U https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/10/2/109