The current study examines individuals who were raised in a certain religion and at some stage of their life left it …. Currently, they define their religious affiliation as ‘no religion’. A battery of explanatory variables (country-specific ones … tendency of individuals to leave their religion is strongly correlated with the degree of strictness of their country and with …

The current study examines individuals who were raised in a certain religion and at some stage of their life left it …. Currently, they define their religious affiliation as ‘no religion’. A battery of explanatory variables (countryspecific ones … tendency of individuals to leave their religion is strongly correlated with the degree of strictness of their country and with …

The current study examines individuals who were raised in a certain religion and at some stage of their life left it …. Currently, they define their religious affiliation as 'no religion'. A battery of explanatory variables (country-specific ones … tendency of individuals to leave their religion is strongly correlated with the degree of strictness of their country and with …

levels) and his current prayer habits (eleven levels); spouse's religious affiliation; parental (maternal and paternal) and …

: Religion 2 (ISSP) provides the data base. It includes information on maternal/paternal/own mass participation when the … respondent was a child (nine levels each), as well as on his current churchgoing (six levels) and prayer habits (eleven levels …

levels) and his current prayer habits (eleven levels); spouse’s religious affiliation; parental (maternal and paternal) and …

prayer (11 levels); information on the mother's and father's church attendance when the respondent was a child (9 levels) as … a child. The output (respondent's religiosity) is measured using detailed data on mass attendance and prayer. Exposure … effect on the private/intimate activity of prayer than on the social/public activity of church attendance. Current mass …

prayer (11 levels); information on the mother's and father's church attendance when the respondent was a child (9 levels) as … a child. The output (respondent's religiosity) is measured using detailed data on mass attendance and prayer. Exposure … effect on the private/intimate activity of prayer than on the social/public activity of church attendance. Current mass …

utilitarian/social motives-has six alternative levels); and prayer (an intimate/private religious activity with pure religious …) is measured using detailed data on the two aspects of the individual's religiosity: mass attendance and prayer. Socio … flowing mainly through the father. An exception is prayer habits of men that are affected more significantly by the mother …

a certain religion and at some stage of their lives left it. Currently, they define their religious affiliation as 'no … religion'. A battery of explanatory variables (country-specific, personal attributes and marriage variables) was employed to … test for determinants of this decision. It was found that the tendency of individuals to leave their religion is strongly …