Okolskaya L.A. Orientation on intergenerational religious transmission in a family: cross-country analysis. The Russian Public Opinion Herald. Data. Analysis. Discussions. 2021. No. 1-2 (132). Pp. 107-118.

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Abstract

The aim of the paper is to analyze orientation on intergenerational religious transmission in different countries, its dynamics from 1990 till 2017-20, and its linkages to social and demographic predictors. We use data from World Values Survey and European Values Study. Dynamics was explored for 32 countries participated both in 1990-91 and 2017-20 survey waves. Binary logistic regression is made for 78 countries, with orientation on intergenerational religious transmission as a dependent variable, and number of predictors including country, personal religiosity, confession, etc. Our findings show that in the past 30 years, even devout people tend to be less oriented on intergenerational religious transmission. Families tend to delegate this social function to other institutes or even restrain public religious activity in home environment. Russia remains rather secular, ranking equally with many central European and some Asian countries. Nevertheless, only in Russia and 3 post-communist, Orthodox Christian countries people became significantly more oriented on religious transmission in a family. Regression analysis show that this phenomenon is positively linked respondent’s social capital, marital and parental experience, and varies according to his membership in confessional majority or minority.

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