Interreligious Marriage Research Articles

The Gradient of Ecumenism and Opposition to Religious Intermarriage

As a result of the practice in research on interreligious marriage of classifying subjects by the heterogeneous categories, Catholic, Protestant, Jew, persons who are dissimilar on important variables are placed together while those persons who are similar are separated. Important relationships may thus be confounded. This study explores differences in attitude towards religious intermarriage among respondents randomly selected from the membership lists of ecumenical, moderate, and exclusive churches in a medium-sized west coast city. Results of interviews show that ecumenical church members show the least opposition to intermarriage and members of exclusive churches the strongest opposition. Intermarriage involving an exclusive church is the most strongly opposed regardless of respondents' church affiliation. Age, sex, occupation, or education show no significant influence on the expressed opposition to intermarriage. Individual church activity, contributions, or cultural relativism have a mixed influence on attitude. It is suggested that future research on interreligious marriage give more attention to the ecumenical-exclusive dimension of churches. Interfaith marriage has been one of the most widely researched topics in the sociology of religion. For the most part the studies on interfaith marriage that have been done have focused on the three conventional divisions, Catholic, Protestant, and Jew. However, recent critiques have argued that the practice

Some Dimensions of Interreligious Marriages in Indiana, 1962-67

Some Dimensions of Interreligious Marriages in Indiana, 1962-67

Some Dimensions of Interreligious Marriages in Indiana, 1962-67

Some Dimensions of Interreligious Marriages in Indiana, 1962-67

Jewish Student Attitudes Toward Interreligious and Intra-Jewish Marriage

A classification of Jewish university students into Reform and Conservative showed a marked difference in their attitudes toward interfaith and intra-Jewish marriage. Reform Jews were more willing to make interfaith marriages than were Conservative Jews. Students of both branches were more reluctant to marry Catholics than Protestants,and both were more willing to marry persons of no faith than either Catholics or Protestants. In intra-Jewish marriages, attitudes showed that Reform Jews were more willing to marry Conservative than Orthodox Jews, whereas Conservative Jews were more willing to marry Orthodox than Reform Jews. Interpretations are suggested.

Concepts and Terminology in Interreligious Marriage

I NTRODUCTION. Interreligious marriage has been a matter of concern to religious leaders seemingly since the origin of different religions. Rules and their modification, polemics, and, much more recently, research have kept the subject alive. Research of any kind rests on conceptualization and precision of terminology; theories may follow later. Research on interreligious marriage has scarcely gone beyond limited surveys of rates of intermarriage; discussions tend to be partisan in nature by proponents of one religion or another. These approaches are more or less at a standstill; little that is new is being uncovered. The time is at hand for placing interreligious marriage in a conceptual framework and for developing greater precision in terminology, both for the sake of clarity and to break away from some of the inadequacies of present research. This article makes a start in that direction. It is not intended to be global; except for occasional illustrations, it is limited to the United States.

Interreligious Marriage among Pennsylvania Rural Youth

Interreligious Marriage among Pennsylvania Rural Youth

Survival Rates Among Religiously Homogamous and Interreligious Marriages

Cohort-linked Iowa marriage and divorce records from 1953 through 1959 were used to determine marital survival rates for several types of religiously homogamous and interreligious marriages. Data were restricted to white, first-married couples. Marital survival rates were greater as predicted among homogamous Catholic marriages or homogamous Protestant marriages than among marriages of Catholics and non-Catholics. Also, the marital survival rates of the homogamous Catholic marriages exceeded those of the homogamous Protestant marriages. Contrary to expectations, however, there were only small and inconsistent differences in the survival rates between the marriage of Catholic wives and non-Catholic husbands and marriages of non-Catholic wives and Catholic husbands. Marital survival rates were llot substantially different between denominationally homogamous Protestant marriages and marriages between Protestants with different denominational affiliations. Small differences, between two and six percent, were observed between the survival rates of the homogamous Catholic marriages and four types of denominationally homogamnous Protestant marriages. Ages of brides and the status levels of husbands were used as control variables. Application of these control variables failed to alter the general patterns between the religious affiliations of the spouses and marital survival rates. The two control variables, however, appeared to influence the marital survival rates more than the religious affiliation types. Marital survival rates were lower among couples with younger brides and were directly related to the occupational status of the husbands.

Relations among inter-religious marriages, migratory marriages and civil weddings in Iowa.

(1962). Relations among inter‐religious marriages, migratory marriages and civil weddings in Iowa. Eugenics Quarterly: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 75-83.

Ages at Marriage, Occupations of Grooms and Interreligious Marriage Rates

Ages at Marriage, Occupations of Grooms and Interreligious Marriage Rates

Research in Interreligious Dating and Marriage

Research in Interreligious Dating and Marriage

Religious Preference and Interreligious Mixtures in Marriages and Divorces in Iowa

Interreligious marriages are far more numerous than is generally recognized. Catholics in Iowa are more numerous than church figures show and account for a sizable number of the divorces, although they are only half as likely (or less) to divorce as are Protestants. Mixed-Catholic marriages show a greater proportion of dissolution than marriages in which both parties are Catholic.

Interethnic and Interreligious Marriage Patterns in Parish X

Interethnic and Interreligious Marriage Patterns in Parish X