Education, Religious Commitment, and Religious Tolerance in Contemporary China

摘要: Most existing research on education and religion has been situated in the United States, a context where it is normative for youth to receive religious socialization within families that often thought be challenged once they enter college. This study examines relationship between higher non-Western context, China, children are typically raised secular contexts anti-religious ideology permeates system. For Chinese youth, college individuals’ first significant exposure perspectives. Using data from 2007 Spiritual Life Study of Residents, we find influence not secularizing one: Although least educated more likely identify themselves as members group, this true only older adults. People with at some report similar levels salience belief their lives compared both moderately educated. In fact, younger adults who went hold than primary school education, important them those middle or high education. Moreover, college-educated people tolerate beliefs alternatives communism, tolerant vis-a-vis science