Immigrant Religiosity in Canada: Multiple Trajectories |
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Authors: | Phillip Connor |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Sociology, Princeton University, 119 Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA
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Abstract: | Although much research focuses on the economic and linguistic adaptation of immigrants to their new societies, it is rare to find research that studies the religious adaptation of immigrants at a national level. Using longitudinal data among immigrants to Canada in 2001, hypothesized trajectories of immigrant religiosity during initial settlement controlling for a number of individual and contextual level factors are explored. Religious group membership increases a few years after migration and then falls back to earlier levels within 4 years after migration. However, religious participation declines throughout the adaptation process, while the likelihood of religious volunteerism dramatically increases. The paper concludes with a brief discussion of potential explanations for these seemingly contradictory trajectories. |
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