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Nov 20, 2018 · Overall, 20% of Americans say religion is the most meaningful aspect of their lives, second only to the share who say this about family (40%). People in a wide variety of social and demographic subgroups mention family as a key source of meaning and fulfillment.
Sep 28, 2019 · Recently, the Pew Research Center has published a study that suggests that the relation between religiousness and positive measures of meaning in life is more mixed once non-industrialized,...
Jan 31, 2019 · Here are five findings about the relationship between religion and health, happiness and civic engagement: Actively religious people are more likely than their less-religious peers to describe themselves as “very happy” in about half of the countries surveyed.
- Joey Marshall
Mar 22, 2016 · On all the standard measures of religious commitment examined in the study, Christian women are more religious than Christian men. By contrast, Muslim women and Muslim men show similar levels of religiousness on all measures of religious commitment except frequency of attendance at worship services.
May 1, 2004 · Twelve women, who resided at various assisted-living facilities, participated in qualitative interviews about the current and past meaning of religion in their lives. They were distributed among fundamental Christian, Catholic, liberal Protestant, and Jewish faiths.
- Susan K. Fletcher
- 2004
Aug 15, 2023 · This chart shows the share of respondents who mention spirituality, faith and religion when decsribing what gives their life meaning.
To answer why women are more religious than men, researchers have offered different explanations. Risk preference theory posits that because women are more risk averse than men and religiousness can be viewed as a form of risk aversion, women are more religious.
