Church Attendance Patterns Among Intermarried Catholics: A Panel Study
The interfaith marriage per se is often blamed for large portions of church membership leakage, implying that those who were previously “regular attenders“ have become irregular attenders as a direct consequence of contracting an interfaith marriage. Secondary analysis of panel data available from t...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1969
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Sociological analysis
Year: 1969, Volume: 30, Issue: 4, Pages: 204-216 |
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| Summary: | The interfaith marriage per se is often blamed for large portions of church membership leakage, implying that those who were previously “regular attenders“ have become irregular attenders as a direct consequence of contracting an interfaith marriage. Secondary analysis of panel data available from the Burgess-Wallin marriage study calls this conclusion into serious question. We conclude that the mixed marriage per se does not exert as negative an influence on the religious participation of the intermarried as has been thought. The relatively lower church attendance record of some intermarried Catholics is more clearly a continuation of a premarital pattern of irregular attendance. The findings have relevance for mate selection and marital adjustment theory and research. |
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| ISSN: | 2325-7873 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociological analysis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3710510 |
