Religious Affiliation and Fertility in a Sub-Saharan Context: Dynamic and Lifetime Perspectives.
Religious Affiliation and Fertility in a Sub-Saharan Context: Dynamic and Lifetime Perspectives.
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DOI：
10.1007/s11113-013-9317-2
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发表时间：
2014-10-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Yabiku ST
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作者：
Agadjanian V;Yabiku ST
我们使用独特的详细数据，从一个主要是基督教在莫桑比克的高生育率地区，从两个互补的角度动态和累积的生育率检查民族差异。首先，我们使用事件历史分析来预测出生的年度风险，从民族关系。然后，我们采用泊松回归模型之间的关联的孩子出生的数量和生殖生活的份额在特定教派或有组织的宗教。这两种方法都检测到一个显着增加生育率与成员在一个特定类型的非洲发起的教会，其特点是强大的组织身份，僵化的等级制度，和孤立的企业文化。天主教会的成员身份也与完全生育率的提高有关。我们将这些结果与现存的宗教和生育率之间的关系的理论观点，强调意识形态，社会和组织特征之间的相互作用，不同类型的教会，并在莫桑比克和撒哈拉以南非洲其他地方的生育率过渡和宗教人口统计学的背景下，我们的调查结果。
We use uniquely detailed data from a predominantly Christian high-fertility area in Mozambique to examine denominational differentials in fertility from two complementary perspectives—dynamic and cumulative. First, we use event-history analysis to predict yearly risks of birth from denominational affiliation. Then, we employ Poisson regression to model the association between the number of children ever born and share of reproductive life spent in particular denominations or outside organized religion. Both approaches detect a significant increase in fertility associated with membership in a particular type of African-initiated churches which is characterized by strong organizational identity, rigid hierarchy, and insular corporate culture. Membership in the Catholic Church is also associated with elevated completed fertility. We relate these results to extant theoretical perspectives on the relationship between religion and fertility by stressing the interplay between ideological, social, and organizational characteristics of different types of churches and situate our findings within the context of fertility transition and religious demographics in Mozambique and elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa.