Gender and religious orientation
Abstract
Gender has been proven to be a substantial indicator of differences with respect to religiosity within Christianity. Females are always more frequentlyand intensively religious in comparison to males (Francis, 1997). The question of whether this holds for other religions remains unanswered. In this study we focus on university students in Catholic, Christian Orthodox andMuslim environments of Central Europe and in an American, predominantly Protestant environment. Religiosity is studied by differentiating between intrinsic and extrinsic religiosity (Allport and Ross, 1967). If it were foundthat females are more social-extrinsic religious, one couldspeak of a sociological, instrumental and situational religiosity among females. On the contrary, one is closer to speaking of an immanent difference between the genders. Sociological (with the exception of socialization) and Freudian explanations are not confirmed. Psychological explanations, which include anxiety, authoritarianism and femininity (Bem,1981) are good at explaining thedifferences in religiosity between the genders.
Keywords
sociologija religije;verska opredelitev;verske skupnosti;religioznost;verske izkušnje;razlike po spolu;spol;sociology of religion;religious orientation;religious environments;religiosity;religious experiences;intrinsic orientation;extrinsic orientation;gender differences;gender;
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| Language: | English |
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| Year of publishing: | 2007 |
| Typology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
| Organization: | UM FF - Faculty of Arts |
| UDC: | 316.74:2 |
| COBISS: |
15403784
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| ISSN: | 0037-7686 |
| Views: | 1958 |
| Downloads: | 85 |
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| Secondary keywords: | sociologija religije;verska opredelitev;verske skupnosti;religioznost;verske izkušnje;razlike po spolu;spol; |
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| URN: | URN:SI:UM: |
| Type (COBISS): | Article |
| Pages: | str. 239-253 |
| Volume: | ǂVol. ǂ54 |
| Issue: | ǂno. ǂ2 |
| Chronology: | 2007 |
| ID: | 8724119 |
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