Physiology and Faith: Addressing the “Universal” Gender Difference in Religious Commitment

By R. Stark. 2002

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Health, Sociology and Political Science

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Associations Between Religious Orientation and Varieties of Sexual Experience (2003, background): “Gender is important to control because women, compared to men, are less sexually permissive (Oliver and Hyde 1993) and more religiously committed ( Stark 2002 ).”
The Effects of Childhood Maltreatment on Adult Religiosity and Spirituality: Rejecting God the Father Because of Abusive Fathers? (2005, background): “Gender may in fact be critical because one of the most basic findings in the sociology of religion is that that women tend to be more religious than men on most measures of religiosity (Miller and Hoffmann 1995; Stark 2002; Walter and Davie 1998).”
Gods or rituals? Relational faith, spiritual discontent, and religious practices as predictors of hope and optimism (2008, background): “Contrary to most findings (Stark, 2002), the mean levels of religiosity for men and women did not differ, possibly due to the high levels of religious commitment in the group for both genders compared to a national probability sample (Fetzer/National Institute on Aging Work Group, 1999, Appendix).”
Striving for the Sacred: Personal Goals, Life Meaning, and Religion (2005, result): “Having documented that there are substantial and replicable relationships between spiritual goals and indicators of SWB in healthy populations, we wished to demonstrate the value of a goals approach in clinical health populations.”
Patterns and Personality Correlates of Implicit and Explicit Attitudes Toward Christians and Muslims (2005, background): “Because women are typically more religiously committed than men (Stark 2002), we examined whether gender differences existed on the measures of these attitudes toward religious groups.”
Gender Differences in Spiritual Development During the College Years (2007, neutral): “…literature (Ballou 1995; Buchko 2004; Francis 1997; Neill and Kahn 1999; Ochs 1983; Ozorak 2003; Randour 1987; Smith et al. 2002; Smith and Denton 2005; Stark 2002; Thompson and Remmes 2002), the findings presented here suggest that women are more spiritually and religiously inclined than are men.”
Gender and Religion: Deconstructing Universality, Constructing Complexity1 (2006, methodology): “To justify the assertion that gender differences in religion Gender and Religion 851 are universal, Stark (2002) compared men and women in 49 nations, using data from the WVS. Based on the affective item discussed in the previous paragraph, he reported that “in every instance, a higher percentage…”