Gender Differences in Religious Mobility in Great Britain

For the last thirty years, the question of religious mobility has generated increasing research activity within the USA. Despite this research attention, however, the impact of gender on religious movements has rarely been investigated. Using recent British data, this paper examines gender differences in both the nature and extent of religious mobility within this society. The results suggest that males are significantly more likely to change their religious preferences than females. Furthermore, this relationship remains net of prior religious identification and background, as well as current socio-economic attainments, marital status, parental status and age. This is not to suggest, however, that gender is the only factor in explaining religious movement. Other equally, if not more salient, determinants include parental religious background, religious activity in childhood, denomination of origin, as well as spousal religious homogamy. In fact, more so than any other factor, it is religious socialization, or a respondent's religious experiences in childhood, which emerges as the key predictor or religious movement in Britain today

Economic geography · Geography · Sociology · Gender Studies · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology

• Religiousness and Religious Coping in a Secular Society

  Open Access•Dorte Hvidtjørn, Jacob Hjelmborg et al.•Journal of Religion and Health•2014

  Incluir item

• Tracking the Restructuring of American Religion

  D E Sherkat•Social Forces•2001

  Incluir item

• "Débats autour de la sécularisation, la "guerre des genres'' et le clivage entre qualitatif et quantitatif

  Open Access•J Stolz•Social Compass•2008

  Incluir item

• Religious Independents within Western Industrialized Nations

  Bernadette C Hayes•Sociology of Religion•2000

  Incluir item

• The Religious Identity of Banatian Bulgarians – The Palćans in Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria

  Open Access•Slobodan Vasić•Etnoantropološki problemi /…•2022

  Incluir item

• The End of Secularization in Europe

  E Kaufmann, Anne Goujon et al.•Sociology of Religion•2011

  Incluir item

• Religion and attitudes towards nature in Britain

  Open Access•Bernadette G Hayes, Manussos Marangudakis Bernadette C Hayes et al.•British Journal of Sociology•2001

  Incluir item

• Gender differences in religious practices, spiritual experiences and health

  Open Access•Joanna Maselko, Laura D Kubzansky•Social Science & Medicine•2006

  Incluir item

• The Role of Spiritual and Religious Experiences in Religious Switching

  Open Access•Maria Cristina Monteiro De Barros, Frederico Camelo Leão et al.•International Journal of Latin…•2024

  Incluir item

• When people shed religious identity in Ireland and Austria

  Open Access•David Mcclendon, Conrad Hackett•Demographic Research•2014

  Incluir item

• Moving out of Salafism

  Open Access•Iman Dawood•Gender & Society•2025

  Incluir item

• The Religious Switcher in the United States

  Frank Newport•American Sociological Review•1979

  Incluir item

• Religious Change and Secularization

  I Mcallister•Sociological Analysis•1988

  Incluir item

• Saints and Seekers

  Robin D Perrin, Armand L Mau et al.•Review of Religious Research•1991

  Incluir item

• Work in Progress Toward a New Paradigm for the Sociological Study of Religion in the United States

  R Stephen Warner, Richard Warner et al.•American Journal of Sociology•1993

  Incluir item

• Leaving the faith

  Open Access•D E Sherkat•Social Science Research•1991

  Incluir item