Social Reproduction of Religiosity in the Immigrant Context: Intergenerational Transmission and Family Formation.

• In Event: 060 - Regular Session. Immigrant Communities/Families

Abstract

This paper compares two aspects of the social reproduction of religion: parent-to-child transmission, and religious homogamy. Analysis of a survey of immigrants in France shows that for parent-to-child transmission, immigrant status/generation is not the central variable – rather variation is across religions with Muslim families showing high continuity. Immigrant status/generation does directly matter for partner choice. In Christian and Muslim families alike religious in-partnering significantly declines in the second generation. In turn, the offspring of religiously non-homogamous families is less religious. For Muslim immigrants this points to the possibility of a non-trivial decline in religiosity in the third generation.

Author

• Thomas Georg Soehl, McGill University