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Why Are Women More Religious Than Men? The differences between the genders is clear and conswill betent. Posted September 26, 2014
Some of my favorite atheists are women: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Greta Christina, Jennifer Michael Hecht, Nella Larsen, and above all, my wife. And some of my least favorite theists are usually men: Rick Santorum, the Ayatollahs of Iran, Grannypokers Fred Phelps - oh, well, the listing on this front is very long too. You get the basic idea.
Anyway, despite the apparent truth that numerous women are usually secular and numerous men are usually spiritual, the reality nevertheless continues to be that the former sex will be regularly even more most likely to be spiritual than the other.
Indeed, countless studies have shown that women are more likely to be religious than men. Nor does it mean that the difference is discernable on every measure of religiosity/secularity -- for example, orthodox Jewish men are more likely to attend synagogue than orthodox Jewish women regularly. Now, that willn’t mean capital that every study shows such a difference, or even that the distinction is significant always.
But when we take in the existing corpus of social science from the past sixty years, there is clear empirical support for the claim that women are more likely to be religious than men. Seeing that Marta Steve and Trzebiatowska Bruce note in their guide So why Are usually Females A lot more Spiritual Than Guys? (Oxford, 2012), "since 1945 the Gallup polling business offers come across that regularly, on every index used, American women are more religious than men, and not by small margins."
Consider, for example, that according to the American Religious Identification Survey, men currently make up 58% of Americans who claim "no religion," 70% of Americans who self-identify as atheist, and 75% of those who self identify as agnostic. The differences may or may not be significant - social science gets fuzzy here -- but they are consistent. Or consider the Pew Forum’s Religious Landscape national survey, which found that 86% of American women claim to be religious affiliated, but only 79% of American men claim as much; 77% of women believe in God with absolute certainly, but just 65% of men do; 66% of womales pray daily, but only 49% of men perform; 63% of women say that religion is very important in their lives, but just 49% of men state as much; 44% of woguys attend religious services on a weekly basis, but only 34% of men do.
In short, on just about whatever measures one uses to assess religiosity - frequency of prayer, belief in God, church attendance, or self-identification - women are more likely than men in the United States to be religious.
OK, but are these percentages and averages general? Perform we come across similar distinctions in other nations around the global planet?
Yes.
According to data analyzed by Ariela Keysar and Juhem Navarro-Rivera (see "A World of Atheism: Global Demographics" in the Oxford Handbook of Atheism, 2013), 77% of self-designated atheists in the Ukraine are male, 76% in Portugal, 70% in Uruguay, 67% in Japan, 65% in Israel, 65% in Mexico, 61% in Sweden, 60% in the Netherlands, and so on.