Entry:

Babchuk, Nicholas and Whitt, Hugh P., "R-Order and Religious Switching," Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 29 (1990), 246-254.


Abstract:

People tend to choose denominations similar to the ones they were raised in, moving towards sectarianism and no religion. People also tend to marry those in similar religious denominations, but cross Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish thresholds less than in personal religious switching.

GSS Years:

1982-83

GSS Codebook Variables referenced by document:

Variable Name

Variable Label

 
 
SEX

RESPONDENTS SEX

RELIG

RS RELIGIOUS PREFERENCE

DENOM

SPECIFIC DENOMINATION

RELIG16

RELIGION IN WHICH RAISED

SPREL

SPOUSES RELIGIOUS PREFERENCE

SPREL16

RELIGION IN WHICH SPOUSE RAISED