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u/Rabitology · 20 pointsr/TheMotte

Even in the west, it depends enormously on context. Vern Bengtson has been running a longitudinal study of faith transmission over the past 35 years and touching on four generations, and he concludes that the overall inheritance of faith has been stable at approximately 60% since 1970, but higher for evangelicals, mormons and jews and dramatically lower for the mainline protestant denominations, who seem to be the source of most of the growing "nones" category that Robert Putnam described in 2011. This still sounds like it's bad for religion, but remember that "none" is a category of parental faith as well - which means that a fraction of children raised in secular families turn to religion as adults, and the "prodigal" phenomenon of adolescent wandering followed by a return to the faith in adulthood is common.

I do expect the "nones" to increase into the immediate future at the mainline protestant denominations continue to secularize, though this growth curve is likely to flatten as the baby boom echo of the millennial generation enters middle age and the prodigals begin to return. The evangelical churches seem to be stabilizing with the assistance of immigration and will likely persist well into the future when reproductive competition becomes more of a factor.

Finally, the God Gene may have been a bit overblown, but religiosity as a personality trait is unequivocally heritable in part (as are other personality traits), with limited twin studies indicating an approximately 40% heritability in adulthood. If reproductive trends persist into the future, in the long-long term, society may undergo a genetically determined shift towards increased religiosity.

u/Atanar · 3 pointsr/de

Die Ergebnisse einer 35-jährigen Studie dazu gibts sogar in Buchform.

Mehr als 6 von 10 Eltern verbreiten ihre religiöse Ausrichtung durch Forpflanzung. Bei Mormonen ist der Wert besonders hoch 80%, bei Katholiken 40%, bei evangelikalen 60% und gemäßigten Protestanten 30%.

Ich gehe mal davon aus, dass die Werte außerhalb des säkularen Westens nochmal deutlich höher sind.

Ich merk grad Korellationswert von IQ/SAT-scores und Religion ungefähr bei r=-.31 liegt, was auch recht hoch ist, aber diese sind meist stark umstritten.

Einen meilenweiten Abstand scheints also eher nicht zu geben, nur einen deutlichen.