Changes in Americans' Strength of Religious Affiliation, 1974-2010
Changes in Americans' Strength of Religious Affiliation, 1974-2010
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1974 年至 2010 年美国人宗教信仰强度的变化
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10.1093/socrel/srs043
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2013
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P. Schwadel
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P. Schwadel
我使用1974-2010年综合社会调查的数据来分析美国人宗教信仰强度的变化。结果显示，报告有很强联系的美国人的百分比变化不大，尽管从1990年到2010年，随着无联系受访者数量的增加，有一定/不太强联系的百分比有所下降。特定的宗教信仰，年龄段队列分析表明，报告强烈的宗教信仰的概率下降了相当多的天主教徒，主要是由于基于时期的影响，在20世纪80年代，和福音派新教徒之间增加，也由于基于时期的变化。这些趋势在福音派新教徒/黑人新教徒和主流新教徒/天主教徒之间建立强烈宗教联系的可能性方面产生了很大的差距。进一步的分析显示，宗教服务出席率与宗教信仰强度之间的关联，特别是天主教徒之间的关联，发生了相当大的跨群体变化，这表明宗教身份和宗教实践在年轻一代中的联系更为松散。
I use data from the 1974–2010 General Social Survey to analyze changes in Americans’ strength of religious affiliation. Results show little change in the percent of Americans who report a strong affiliation, though the percent with a somewhat/not very strong affiliation declined from 1990 to 2010, as the number of unaffiliated respondents increased. Tradition-specific, age–period–cohort analyses show that the probability of reporting a strong religious affiliation declined considerably among Catholics, predominantly due to period-based effects in the 1980s, and increased among evangelical Protestants, also due to period-based changes. These trends have produced a large gap in the likelihood of having a strong religious affiliation between evangelical Protestants/black Protestants and mainline Protestants/ Catholics. Additional analyses show considerable across-cohort changes in the association between religious service attendance and strength of religious affiliation, particularly among Catholics, suggesting that religious identity and religious practice are more loosely connected among younger generations.