Religiosity and Social groups

1. Women more religious as socialised to be passive, obedient and caring - qualities valued most by religions. More likely to work part-time or be full-time carers so have more scope for organising time to participate in religious activities (6, 3, 7)
4. Since 60s women have started to reject traditional roles and Christianity is closely bound with these so they reject traditional religion too. New Age self religions attract to women's wish for autonomy (5)
5. Religion among minorities is basis for community solidarity, a means of preserving culture and language and way of coping with oppression (4)
6. Women's closer proximity to birth and death (through child-bearing and caring for sick, elderly, dying) brings them closer to ultimate questions that religion is concerned with e.g. meaning of life (5)
9. People become more interested in spirituality as they get older - as we approach death we become more concerned about spiritual matters and the afterlife (6)
10. Taking care of other family members increases women's religiosity as it involves responsibility for their ultimate welfare as well as their everyday needs (7)

2. 80% of participants in the holistic milieu in Kendal were female (6, 3, 8)
3. Found some decline in importance of religion for all ethnic groups and fewer were observant, especially among 2nd generation (6, 2, 2)
4. Religion offers support and sense of cultural identity (when immigrants move). Twice as many women as men in sects. Women's experience of child-rearing makes them caring which fits emphasis of New Age. (5)
8. Children are no longer receiving a religious socialisation and those brought up without one are less likely to become churchgoers in later life (4)

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