The Gender Gap in the Religiosity of Polish Society

• Autorzy: Sławomir Mandes
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

A gender gap in the religiosity of men and women is one of the classical topic of sociology and psychology of religion. Until recently, however, most of the researcher were conducted in Western European and the USA, which calls into question the thesis about the universality of this phenomenon. Hitherto no systematic analysis of gender gap in the religiosity was conducted for Poland. The following text has one descriptive and one explanatory purpose. It seeks to provide answers to the following questions: (1) Does the GGR exist in Poland, and, if so, to which extent and in which dimension of religiosity? Which GGR is persistent, and which changes over time?; and (2) Do structural variables or ideology explain the observed GGR change in time and in which dimension of religiosity? Do we observe the same trend across all dimensions of religiosity? (original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Gender; Religion; Gender gap

PL

Płeć; Religia; Różnica między płciami

• Czasopismo: Polish Sociological Review
• Rocznik: 2021
• Numer: nr 2 (214)
• Strony: 221--239

Twórcy

autor

Sławomir Mandes

• University of Warsaw

Bibliografia

• Albanesi, S., and Şahin, A. 2018. The Gender Unemployment Gap, Review of Economic Dynamics 30: 47-67.
• Avishai, O. 2008. 'Doing religion' in a Secular World: Women in Conservative Religions and the Question of Agency, Gender & Society 22(4): 409-433.
• Azzi, C., and Ehrenberg, R. 1975. Household Allocation of Time and Church Attendance, Journal of Political Economy February: 27-56.
• Brenner, P. S. 2016. Cross-national trends in religious service attendance, Public Opinion Quarterly 80(2): 563-583.
• Davie, G., and Walter, T. 1998. The Religiosity of Women in the Modern West, The British Journal of Sociology 49(4): 640-660.
• Feltey, K., and Poloma, M. 1991. From Sex Differences to Gender Role Beliefs: Exploring Effects on Six Dimensions of Religiosity, Sex Roles 25: 181-93.
• Ferraro, K. F., and Albrecht-Jensen, C. M. 1991. Does Religion Influence Health?, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 30: 193-202.
• Field, C. D. 1993. Adam and Eve: Gender in English Free Church Constituency, Journal of Ecclesiastical History 44: 63-79.
• Finke, R., and Adamczyk, A. 2008. Cross-National Moral Beliefs: The Influence of National Religious Context, The Sociological Quarterly 49(4): 617-652.
• Francis, L. 1997. Psychology of Gender Differences in Religion, Religion 27(1): 81-96.
• Glock, Ch. Y. 1964. Toward a Typology of Religious Orientation. New York: Columbia University Press.
• Glock, C.Y., Ringer, B.B. and Babbie, E.R. 1967. To Comfort and to Challenge. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Gorodnichenko, Y., and Roland, G. 2011. Individualism, Innovation, and Long-run Growth, PNAS 108, suppl. 4: 21316-21319.
• Greeley, A. 1992. Religion in Britain, Ireland and the USA, in: R. Jowell, L. Brook, G. Prior, and B. Taylor. (eds.), British Social Attitudes: the 9th report. Aldershot: Dartmouth Publishers, pp. 51-70.
• Gromadzki, J. 2019. Trends in Occupational Segregation by Gender in a Post-communist Country. Warsaw: IBS Working Papers 09.
• Grzymała-Busse, A. 2015. Nations under God: How Churches Use Moral Authority to Influence Policy. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• Hackett, C. 2016. The Religious Gender Gap around the World. Washington, DC: Pew Research Center.
• Hailpern, S. M., and Visintainer, P. F. 2003. Odds Ratios and Logistic Regression: Further Examples of Their Use and Interpretation, The Stata Journal 3: 213-225.
• Hall, D. 2007. New Age w Polsce: lokalny wymiar globalnego zjawiska. Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Akademickie i Profesjonalne.
• Harrison, J. 1983. Attitudes to Bible, God, Church. London: Bible Society.
• Hof, J. (ed.) 2006. Kobiety i kultura religijna: specyficzne cechy religijności kobiet w Polsce. Rzeszów: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego.
• Leszczyńska, K. 2016. The (Self-) Exclusion of Women from the Roman Catholic Church in Poland, Polish Sociological Review 4: 459-476.
• Leszczyńska, K. 2019. Between Womanhood as Ideal and Womanhood as a Social Practice: Women's Experiences in the Church Organisation in Poland, Journal of Contemporary Religion 34(2): 311-330.
• Lenski, G. E. 1953. Social Correlates of Religious Interest, American Sociological Review 18: 533-44.
• Levitt, M. 1995. Sexual Identity and Religious Socialization, British Journal of Sociology 46(3): 529-36.
• Luckmann, T. 1967. The Invisible Religion. New York: Macmillan.
• Marody, M., and Mandes, S. 2017. Polish Religious Values as Reflected in the European Values Study, in: S. P. Ramet and I. Borowik (eds.), Religion, Politics, and Values in Poland Continuity and Change Since 1989. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 231-255.
• McGuire, M. 1994. Gendered Spirituality and Quasi-Religious Ritual, in: A. Greil and T. Robbins (eds.), Religion and the Social Order, vol. 4: Between Sacred and Secular. Greenwich, CT: Jai Press, pp. 273-287.
• McLeod, H. 1996. Religion and Society in England, 1850-1914. Basingstoke: Macmillan.
• Neitz, M. J. 1992. Inequality and Difference, in: W. S. Swatos, Jr. (ed.), A Future for Religion? New Paradigms for Social Analysis. London: Sage, pp. 151-165.
• Norris, P., and Inglehart, R. 2008. Existential Security and the Gender Gap in Religious Values. Draft chapter for the SSRC conference on religion and international affairs, New York, February 15-16.
• Norris, P., and Inglehart, R. 2011. Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Ozorak, E. W. 1996. The Power but Not the Glory: How Women Empower Themselves through Religion, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 35(1): 17-29.
• Palmisano, S., and Todesco, L. 2019. The Gender Gap in Religiosity Over Time in Italy: Are Men and Women Really Becoming More Similar?, Social Compass 66(4): 1-18.
• Piatkowski, M. 2018. Europe's Growth Champion: Insights from the economic rise of Poland. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Pine, F. 2003. Retreat to the Household? Gendered Domains in Postsocialist Poland, in: C. M. Hann (ed.), Postsocialism: Ideals, Ideologies and Practices in Eurasia. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 95-113.
• Reinert, D. F., and Stifler K.R. 1993. Hood's Mysticism Scale Revisited: a Factor-analytic Replication, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 32: 383-388.
• Schnabel, L. 2018. More Religious, Less Dogmatic: Toward a General Framework for Gender Differences in Religion, Social Science Research 75: 58-72.
• Schnabel, L., Hackett, C., and McClendon, D. 2018. Where Men Appear More Religious Than Women: Turning a Gender Lens on Religion in Israel, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 571: 80-94.
• Segatti, B., and Brunelli, G. 2010. Da cattolica a genericamente Cristiana, Il Regno 10: 337-351.
• Siemieńska, R. 1996. Gendered Perceptions: Women in the Labour market in Poland, Women's History Review 5(4): 553-566.
• Stark, R. 2002. Physiology and Faith: Addressing the "Universal" Gender Difference in Religious Commitment, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 41(3): 495-507.
• Sullins, D. P. 2006. Gender and Religion: Deconstructing Universality, Constructing Complexity, American Journal of Sociology 112(3): 838-880.
• Suziedelis, A., and Potvin, R. H. 1981. Sex Differences in Factors Affecting Religiousness among Catholic Adolescents, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 20(1): 38-50.
• Svenning, M., Haldane, I., Spiers, S. and Gunter, B. 1988. Godwatching: Viewers, Religion and Television. London: John Libbey and IBA.
• Szwed, A. 2019. Typy legitymizacji w wypowiedziach hierarchów Kościoła rzymskokatolickiego w Polsce na temat gender i praw reprodukcyjnych, Studia Socjologiczne 3(234): 81-108.
• Thompson, E. H. 1991. Beneath the Status Characteristic: Gender Variations in Religiousness, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 30(4): 381-394.
• Tomescu-Dubrow I., Dubrow, J. K., Kiersztyn, A., Andrejuk, K., Kołczyńska, M., and Slomczynski, K. M. 2019. The Subjective Experience of Joblessness in Poland. Springer International Publishing.
• Trzebiatowska, M., and Bruce, S. 2012. Why are Women more Religious than Men? Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Voas, D., McAndrew, S., and Storm, I. 2013. Modernization and the Gender Gap in Religiosity: Evidence from Cross-national European Surveys, Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 65(1): 259-283.
• West, C., and Zimmerman, D. H., 1987. Doing gender, Gender & Society 1(2): 125-151.
• Whitehead, A., 2013. Gendered Organizations and Inequality Regimes, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 52(3): 476-493.
• Yeaman, P. A. 1987. Prophetic Voices: Differences between Men and Women, Review of Religious Research 28(4): 367-376.

Identyfikatory

DOI

10.26412/psr214.05