Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This paper investigates changes in beliefs about sex-roles in the United States over the past twenty-five years. We rely on measures of two dimensions of sex-role beliefs – gender ideology and beliefs about the consequences of maternal work for children – from the General Social Survey beginning in 1977 through 2002. We focus on the comparison of religious groups in the nature and extent of their change in sex-role beliefs over this period and decompose changes for each religious category into two components – secular change due to cohort turnover and change due to secular shifts within cohorts. We investigate these changes separately for men and women and examine differences in rates of change over time. In addition, we decompose these trends separately for “lifelong” members of religious groups and those who converted to the group after childhood in an effort to control for the effects of patterns of retention and recruitment that might affect the assessment of change. Our results indicate considerable change in sex-role beliefs through the early 1990s and a subsequent leveling off. Change is greater among women across all religious groups, and religion appears to play a greater role in the differentiation of rates of change in the sex-role beliefs of men. Catholic men and men in non-conservative Protestant groups were on the vanguard of change whereas conservative Protestant men are somewhat slower to embrace change. The results for women are relatively consistent across measures, whereas men are more likely to embrace a role for women in the labor-force than one that compromises their maternal role.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: The paper examines how political factors (such as the level of civil rights, or state regulation of religion) and sociological ones (such as inequality and development) influence the interaction between religious beliefs and religious practice.

Publication Type: Proceeding

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Previous large-n studies of religious discrimination either used a state-level variable for religious discrimination—looking at how a state treats religious minorities in general—or focus on a subgroup of religious minorities such as ethnoreligious minori

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: This paper investigates federal court litigation concerning religious expression in the context of the religious population of communities from which such court cases arise.