Religious Stability, Endogamy, and the Effects of Personal Religiosity on Attitudes Toward Abortion

John K. Cochran; Mitchell B. Chamlin; Leonard Beeghley; Angela Harnden; Brenda Sims Blackwell

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Religious Stability, Endogamy, and the Effects of Personal Religiosity on Attitudes Toward Abortion

John K. Cochran, Mitchell B. Chamlin, Leonard Beeghley, Angela Harnden, Brenda Sims Blackwell

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The influence of religion on attitudes toward abortion is now a well-studied phenomenon. Past research has consistently shown that religious affiliation and personal religiosity are related to abortion attitudes. In this study, we have extended the extant literature by examining variation in the effect of personal religiosity on attitudes toward abortion across faith groups and across contexts of religious stability/change and endogamy/exogamy. Using data from the NORC General Social Surveys, we found that the strength of the religiosity-abortion attitude relationship does indeed vary as predicted across faith groups, but that the influence of religious stability/change and endogamy/exogamy on this relationship are not as pronounced as anticipated.

Original language	American English
Journal	Sociology of Religion
Volume	57
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2307/3712158
State	Published - 1997

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