{"id":6369,"date":"2010-05-28T05:27:51","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T05:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2010\/05\/women-are-more-religious-but-w.html"},"modified":"2010-05-28T05:27:51","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T05:27:51","slug":"women-are-more-religious-but-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2010\/05\/women-are-more-religious-but-w.html","title":{"rendered":"Women are More Religious, but Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WomenBibleStudy1.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>The Baylor Survey of Religion confirmed a long held claim: women are more religious (see Rodney Stark, What Americans Really Believe<\/a>\"\".<\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em> Here’s a big picture set of numbers:<\/p>\n

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69% vs. 57% believe in God<\/div>\n
Men are twice as likely to be atheists.<\/div>\n
77% vs. 68% believe Jesus is the Son of God.<\/div>\n
Weekly church attendance: 40% vs. 31%<\/div>\n
Prays at least once a day: 57% vs. 40%.<\/div>\n
Reads the Bible weekly: 32% vs. 24%.<\/div>\n
HIgh on religious experience index: 31% vs. 22%<\/div>\n
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This is true in the world data; women are more religious in the whole world. Same true in non-religious cultures and in Islamic countries. This gender difference is universal.<\/div>\n
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Socialization? Nope.<\/div>\n
Career vs. homemaker women? Same.<\/div>\n
Sex-role socialization? Nope.<\/div>\n
In fact, gender difference in religiousness is greater in less traditional societies.<\/div>\n
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What does this say about the so-called feminization of the Church? Or about the attempts to find more males? Or about making men more masculine?<\/b><\/div>\n
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Alan Miller famously connected lack of male religiousness to risk-taking stats; that is, men are more risky and reckless and so they are more “rebellious” when it comes to religion. (How’s that for a sentence with Rs?) Miller discovered that risk takers and irreligiousness were correlated for both men and women. <\/div>\n
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But men are much more likely to be risk takers.<\/div>\n
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So what makes men more risky? Some theorize that it has to do with group survival and that males who were risky have been needed.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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