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Why are women more religious than men? / Marta Trzebiatowska and Steve Bruce.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Trzebiatowska, Marta.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in Christianity.
- Christian women--Religious life.
- Christian women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (214 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, U.K. : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This work reviews the now-sizeable body of social research to consider if the gender gap in religion is universal. Marta Trzebiatowska and Steve Bruce extensively critique competing explanations of the differences found.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. The Great Divide; 2. New Religions; 3. Spirits and Bodies; 4. Spirituality; 5. Conservative Religion; 6. Biology, Roles, and Attitudes; 7. Risk; 8. Ways of Life; 9. Secularization; 10. The Sum of Small Differences; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-161166-2
- 0-19-870972-2
- 0-19-161165-4
- 9786613889812
- 1-283-57736-4
- OCLC:
- 922971334
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