Denominations and Religious Intermarriage: Trends among White Americans in the Twentieth Century

Trends in religious intermarriage are examined for denominations in six marital cohorts of white Americans over the twentieth century. Log-linear analyses of national cross-sectional data indicate significant denominational differences in the trends--Conservative Christians appear to have avoided th...

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Published in:Review of religious research
Main Author: McCutcheon, Allan L. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer 1988
In: Review of religious research
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Summary:Trends in religious intermarriage are examined for denominations in six marital cohorts of white Americans over the twentieth century. Log-linear analyses of national cross-sectional data indicate significant denominational differences in the trends--Conservative Christians appear to have avoided the increasing rates of religious intermarriage experienced by each of the other religious and denominational groupings examined. The effect of college attendance on intermarriage is also examined. The analysis findings are supportive of the interpretation of colleges as "marriage markets" from which individuals select marital partners. No support is found for the interpretation that college is a secularizing institution which erodes values regarding religious endogamy, or for the hypothesis that teenage marriages are more likely to be exogamous.
ISSN:2211-4866
Contains:Enthalten in: Review of religious research
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2307/3511220