Slik, F. van der, & Driessen, G. (2016). Attendance of religious services among Muslims and Christians. A study on ethnic-religious concentration and diversity effects. In A. Pratt (ed.), Ethnic minorities: Perceptions, cultural barriers and health inequalities (pp. 25-53). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers.
ISBN 978-1-63484-191-7
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DOI 10.1177/0001699307074882
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This document summarizes a study on Muslim migrants in Athens and their religious practices and organization in a hostile environment without official mosques. It discusses how mosques serve religious and social functions for migrants but in Athens, migrants establish "cultural associations" instead due to bureaucratic hurdles to establishing mosques. These associations provide religious education for children and adults to maintain their culture and language while integrating into Greek society. Religious identity and practices change with migration as migrants assert their identities as a religious minority in Greece.
Geert Driessen (2007) JET Trends in Religious Affiliation of Parents ofDriessen Research
Trends in Religious Affiliation of Parents of
Primary School Children in the Netherlands in
Th e Period 1995-2005:
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and Socio-Economic Background
Geert Driessen (2008) Towards citizenship education in the NetherlandsDriessen Research
The document provides background information on citizenship education in the Netherlands. It describes the history of immigration to the country, including the main categories of immigrants from Western countries, former colonies like Suriname, "guest workers" from Southern Europe and the Mediterranean, and refugees/asylum seekers. It also outlines the Dutch education system and policies around integration and citizenship education. The report was prepared as part of an international comparative research project on citizenship education in secondary schools.
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Integration of ethnic minorities into society often is operationalized as participation in societal institutions. Examples are cultural, political and labor participation. On the basis of the theoretical concepts of social and cultural capital, it is hypothesized that greater parental participation in society will lead to a better educational position for the children. To test this hypothesis, descriptive and multilevel analyses were conducted using data from the Dutch cohort study Primary Education. The sample included 11,000 students from 600 primary schools. In the analyses, ethnic minority parents and their children were compared to native Dutch parents and their children. After controlling for parental socioeconomic and ethnic background, the results showed only an effect of cultural participation on language and math skills. No effects on such non-cognitive outcomes as social position, individual well-being, or self-confidence were found.
Geert Driessen & Frederik Smit (2008). Does Ethnic Minority Parents’ Integr...Frederik Smit
Integration of ethnic minorities into society often is operationalized as participation in societal institutions. Examples are cultural, political and labor participation. On the basis of the theoretical concepts of social and cultural capital, it is hypothesized that greater parental participation in society will lead to a better educational position for the children. To test this hypothesis, descriptive and multilevel analyses were conducted using data from the Dutch cohort study Primary Education. The sample included 11,000 students from 600 primary schools. In the analyses, ethnic minority parents and their children were compared to native Dutch parents and their children. After controlling for parental socioeconomic and ethnic background, the results showed only an effect of cultural participation on language and math skills. No effects on such non-cognitive outcomes as social position, individual well-being, or self-confidence were found.
Geert Driessen & Frederik Smit (2007) AS Effects of immigrant parents’ partic...Driessen Research
Driessen, G., & Smit, F. (2007). Effects of immigrant parents’ participation in society on their children’s school performance. Acta Sociologica, 50(1), 39-56.
ISSN 0001-6993
DOI 10.1177/0001699307074882
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Geert Driessen & Michael Merry (2006) (IC) Islamic schools in the Netherlands...Driessen Research
This document summarizes an article about Islamic schools in the Netherlands. It discusses how Islamic schools have evolved since the first ones were founded in the 1980s, with 46 primary schools and 2 secondary schools now existing. The schools aim to strengthen students' cultural/religious identity and improve academic achievement. While some see the schools as promoting integration, others worry they could lead to isolation. Empirical studies found the schools generally meet legal requirements and curriculum standards, and do not have a fundamentalist character, though some early schools had issues with language of instruction and teacher qualifications. There remains a need for more Islamic schools to meet parental demand.
The document summarizes multiculturalism in the United Kingdom through discussing immigration trends, religious and ethnic demographics, and perspectives on multiculturalism. It notes that the largest immigrant populations come from India, Poland, and Ireland. While Christianity remains the largest religion, the Muslim population has grown. It also provides details on the British Hindu, Polish migrant, and Muslim populations in the UK and discusses both pros and cons of a multicultural country.
Becoming christian, backgrounds and motives of Iranians in the Netherlands le...sweyaboy
This document provides an introduction to research on Iranians in the Netherlands who have converted from Islam to Christianity. It notes that a substantial number of Iranian asylum seekers in the Netherlands appear to be converting based on the author's observations and brief surveys. The author interviewed 14 Iranian converts about the backgrounds, factors and motives for their conversions. They noted the importance of churches and mission organizations in the conversion process. The author visited various church services attended by Iranian converts to understand their experiences. The goal of the research is to provide an introductory inventory of why and how Iranians in the Netherlands are converting from Islam to Christianity.
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- The document discusses the growing Muslim population in cities in Belgium and the Netherlands, noting that Muslims will likely comprise the majority of Brussels' population by 2030. It describes ways in which Belgian society has become more Islamic through changes to school calendars, holidays, and political policies that accommodate Islamic practices. It expresses concern that some Muslim politicians have vowed to implement Islamic sharia law in Belgium and that proposed legislation could criminalize criticism of Islam.
Michael Merry & Geert Driessen (2005) CE Islamic schools in three western cou...Driessen Research
This document summarizes and compares Islamic schools in three Western countries: Belgium, the Netherlands, and the United States. In Belgium, Islamic instruction is widely provided in public schools, so there is little demand for Islamic schools, with only one existing. In the Netherlands, Islamic schools have grown in number due to constitutional protections for religious schools. The US provides freedom for religious schools but no direct funding, resulting in inconspicuous growth of Islamic schools. Key differences and policies regarding funding, choice, and oversight of Islamic schools are examined in each country context.
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Driessen, G. (2021). Islamic primary schools in the Netherlands: The founding, the debate, and the outcomes. Nazhruna: Jurnal Pendidikan Islam / Journal of Islamic Education, 4(1), 18-31.
ISSN 2614-8013
DOI 10.31538/nzh.v4i1.1076
Geert Driessen (2012) ed Kassimeris Combating ethnic educational disadvantage...Driessen Research
Driessen, G. (2012). Combating ethnic educational disadvantage in the Netherlands. An analysis of policies and effects. In C. Kassimeris & M. Vryonides (eds.), The politics of education. Challenging multiculturalism (pp. 31-51). New York: Routledge.
ISBN 978-0-415-88514-0
DOI 10.4324/9780203802519
Multiculturalism in the United Kingdom is defined as the coexistence of diverse cultures manifested in behaviors, assumptions, and communication styles. The UK population includes immigrants from India, Poland, Ireland, Pakistan, and Germany. While Christianity remains the largest religion, the Muslim population has grown and a quarter of UK residents now report no religion. Debate exists around whether multiculturalism has failed in the UK, as the prime minister has argued, or whether cities demonstrate cultural diversity through mixed communities and influences in arts and media. Polish immigration has increased the Polish-born population in the UK.
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Switzerland, like other European countries that recruited labor migrants after World War II, faces an increasing number of elderly migrants. Most elderly individuals with a migration background wish to spend their life after retirement in their country of reception,while remaining transnationally mobile for as long as possible, thus commuting between the country of reception and the country of origin.
1) Reports in 2004 showed that Christianization was rapidly increasing in Indonesia, with some estimates showing a 70 times increase in Christians over 100 years. This could lead to significant geopolitical and social changes similar to East Timor breaking from Indonesia.
2) A visit to Indonesia in 1433 AH confirmed reports that thousands were converting to Christianity annually through mass events and lack of Islamic knowledge among the population.
3) An estimated 2 million Muslims in Indonesia convert to Christianity annually, according to averages from multiple sources, though some estimates suggest the number is higher. Factors driving conversion include colonialism, poverty, secularization, isolation of communities, and evangelism.
Michael Merry & Geert Driessen (2016) REE On the right track.pdfDriessen Research
The Netherlands currently has 43 Islamic primary schools. Each is fully
subsidised by the government. Yet since the first school was established
in 1988 Islamic schools have been confronted with obstacles by the
Ministry of Education, bad press and increasingly strict state supervision.
Under pressure to improve their image, since 2008 Dutch Islamic
primary schools have turned their attention away from expanding their
numbers and instead focussed on improving school quality. In this article
we describe the various developments and draw upon large scale
empirical research to demonstrate the present state of affairs both in
terms of cognitive and non-cognitive pupil achievements. We argue that
the present results offer reasons to be cautiously optimistic.
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1) The socioeconomic status of Muslim immigrants in Western Europe has generally remained low since they first arrived after WWII as guest workers. They have faced discrimination in employment and education opportunities.
2) While higher levels of religiosity among Muslims are linked to more conservative social values, research also shows that being Muslim has little effect on views of democracy, national identification, and trust in political institutions in Western countries.
3) Discrimination is a significant barrier holding Muslims back economically. About half of the employment gap between Muslims and non-Muslims cannot be explained by individual factors like education, implying religious discrimination. However, cultural and religious factors also play a role in the lower labor participation of Muslim women.
This document discusses language, diversity, and identity issues related to international migration. It covers several key points:
1) Language plays an important role in migration as both a pull factor, with migrants preferring destinations where their native language is spoken, and as a factor that impacts integration, with better language skills in the destination country leading to better outcomes.
2) Migration greatly increases diversity in societies as migrants come from more countries and backgrounds. In many developed countries over half the population growth in recent decades has come from immigration.
3) Migration can impact identity as migrants may lose aspects of their culture and social status from their home country. They have to rebuild their identity in the new country while facing challenges of exclusion
Geert Driessen (2024) OOP De generaliseerbaarheid van een VVE-modelprogramma....Driessen Research
SAMENVATTING
Voor- en Vroegschoolse Educatie (VVE) richt zich op het voorkomen van achterstanden die het gevolg zijn van sociaal-etnische gezinsomstandigheden. De claim is dat het daarin effectief kan zijn, mits het van hoge kwaliteit is. Ondanks de input van vele miljarden zijn de achterstanden de afgelopen decennia echter alleen maar gegroeid. De vraag die hier gesteld wordt is daarom of die claim wel terecht is. Daartoe wordt de externe validiteit van het meest geciteerde voorschoolse programma, het Perry Preschool Project, onder de loep genomen. Kunnen de resultaten daarvan echt in die mate worden gegeneraliseerd als wordt geclaimd?
Kernwoorden: Voor- en Vroegschoolse Educatie; VVE; onderwijsachterstanden; Perry Preschool; James Heckman; generalisatie; externe validiteit
SUMMARY
Preschool Education programs aim at preventing educational delays resulting from socioethnic disadvantage in the home environment of young children. Proponents claim that such programs can be effective, provided they are of high quality. Despite the investment of huge budgets, the educational gap between socioeconomically deprived families and their wealthier counterparts still is widening. The question therefore is whether the programs’ claim is justified. This article focuses on the external validity of the most cited preschool program, the High/Scope Perry Preschool Project. Is it really possible to generalize its findings to other programs, settings and conditions, and target groups, as is being claimed?
Keywords: Pre- and Early School Education; educational disadvantage; Perry Preschool; High/Scope; James Heckman; generalization; external validity
Pre-print van: Driessen, G. (2024). De generaliseerbaarheid van een VVE-modelprogramma. Heckmans dubieuze claims. Orthopedagogiek: Onderzoek en Praktijk, 63(1), 18-29. ISSN 2211-6273
https://orthopedagogiek.eu/
Geert Driessen (2024) Demasqué VVE-modelprogramma's.pdfDriessen Research
Het effect van vve blijft in Nederland moeilijk aantoonbaar. Vve-beleid wordt daarom vaak gestoeld op bewijs uit Amerikaans onderzoek. Geert Driessen fileert de belangrijkste – Perry Preschool en Abecedarian. Er blijft weinig van het bewijs over.
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SUMMARY
Preschool Education programs aim at preventing educational delays resulting from socioethnic disadvantage in the home environment of young children. Proponents claim that such programs can be effective, provided they are of high quality. Despite the investment of huge budgets, the educational gap between socioeconomically deprived families and their wealthier counterparts still is widening. The question therefore is whether the programs’ claim is justified. This article focuses on the external validity of the most cited preschool program, the High/Scope Perry Preschool Project. Is it really possible to generalize its findings to other programs, settings and conditions, and target groups, as is being claimed?
Keywords: Pre- and Early School Education; educational disadvantage; Perry Preschool; High/Scope; James Heckman; generalization; external validity
Pre-print van: Driessen, G. (2024). De generaliseerbaarheid van een VVE-modelprogramma. Heckmans dubieuze claims. Orthopedagogiek: Onderzoek en Praktijk, 63(1), 18-29. ISSN 2211-6273
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Het effect van vve blijft in Nederland moeilijk aantoonbaar. Vve-beleid wordt daarom vaak gestoeld op bewijs uit Amerikaans onderzoek. Geert Driessen fileert de belangrijkste – Perry Preschool en Abecedarian. Er blijft weinig van het bewijs over.
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The primary goal of pre- and early-school programs is to prevent young children from socioeconomically disadvantage backgrounds to start school already with educational delays. The programs offer compensatory stimulation activities which are supposed to be not available in the home situation; the focus is on language development. Proponents claim that such programs can be effective, provided they are of high quality. The belief in their success is very much based on the outcomes of a few so-called model programs from the 1960s and 1970s. One of these programs is the Carolina Abecedarian Project, a small single-site project started in 1972. Four cohorts of in total 111 children and their poor, Black parents participated in this experiment with a random allocated treatment and a control group. The children were followed from 6 weeks after birth to 6 years of age, that is, when they entered school. They were regularly tested and observed, and then after the program had ended again until they were 40 years of age. The focus here is on the internal and external validity of the Abecedarian Project. Are the effects as reported by the program’s staff reliable and valid? Is it possible to generalize the findings of this model program to other times, settings, conditions, and target groups?
Driessen, G. (2024). Abecedarian: An impossible model preschool program. Encyclopedia, 11 January 2024.
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Early Childhood Education programs aim at preventing educational delays associated with socio-ethnic disadvantage in the home environment of young children. Advocates claim that such programs can be effective, provided they are of high quality. Despite the investment of enormous budgets, the educational gap between socio-economically deprived families and their wealthier counterparts is still widening. The question therefore is justifiied whether these claims are justified. This article focuses on the internal and external validity of the most cited preschool program, the High/Scope Perry PreschoolProject, which was carried out between 1962 and 1967 in one school in Ypsilant, MI. Are the program's effects as reported by, e.g. Lawrence Schweinhart and James Heckman, reliable and valid? And is it really possible to generalize the findings of this so-called model program to other programs, target groups, settings and conditions, as is being claimed?
Geert Driessen (2023) The Perry High/Scope Preschool program. A critique
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Bot, K. de, Driessen, G., & Jungbluth, P. (1988). An exploration of the effects of the teaching of immigrant language and culture. Paper International Conference on Maintenance and Loss of Ethnic Minority Languages, Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands, August 28-30, 1988.
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Driessen, G. (1992). Developments in first and second language acquisition of Turkish and Moroccan children in the Netherlands. Paper Second International Conference on Maintenance and Loss of Ethnic Minority Languages, Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands, September 1-4, 1992.
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1) The document discusses a study on the relationship between minority parents' participation in Dutch society and their children's educational outcomes.
2) The study uses data from over 10,000 children and their parents to examine how factors like parental ethnicity, education, labor participation, and cultural participation correlate with children's language, math, and social skills.
3) The results find a consistent positive effect of parents' cultural participation (e.g. attending concerts and museums) on children's language and math abilities, supporting the idea that cultural capital benefits children's education. However, the hypothesis that greater parental participation broadly leads to better child outcomes is only partially confirmed.
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This document summarizes a study on the effects of minority parents' participation in society on their children's educational outcomes. The study used data from 10,680 children in the Netherlands to analyze relationships between parental ethnicity, education, participation in different domains (e.g. labor, religion), and children's language, math and social skills. The results showed a consistent positive effect of parents' cultural participation (e.g. attending concerts) on children's language and math abilities, supporting the idea of cultural capital. However, the hypothesis that greater parental integration would more broadly promote children's education received only partial confirmation. Higher expectations for immigrant children's chances may need to be more realistic.
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Smit, F., & Driessen, G. (2013). Dealing with street culture in schools: Are families, schools and communities able to work together to improve the quality of the daily interactions and communication? Paper 9th International Conference of the European Research Network About Parents in Education (ERNAPE), ‘Learn from the past, review the present, prepare for a future with equity’. Lisbon, Portugal, September 4-6, 2013. In Nieuwsbrief Ouders, scholen en buurt, juli 2013. Retrieved from http://itsexpertisecentrum.wordpress.com/2013/07/02/dealing-with-street-culture-in-schools-are-families-schools-and-communities-able-to-work-together-to-improve-the-quality-of-the-daily-interactions-and-communication/
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Smit, F., & Driessen, G. (2013). Critical lessons from practices for improving the quality of communication between parents and schools. Paper 9th International Conference of the European Research Network About Parents in Education (ERNAPE), ‘Learn from the past, review the present, prepare for a future with equity’. Lisbon, Portugal, September 4-6, 2013. In Nieuwsbrief Ouders, scholen en buurt, juli 2013. Retrieved from http://itsexpertisecentrum.wordpress.com/2013/07/02/critical-lessons-from-practices-for-improving-the-quality-of-communication-between-parents-and-schools/
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neighborhood. Multilevel regression analyses pointed to not just different
effects for Muslim immigrants and native Christians in general, but also
for Turkish and Moroccan Muslims in particular. The analyses indicated
that the religious concentration of the neighborhood had a very
substantive effect on the church attendance of members of various
Protestant denominations, while the impact of a neighborhood’s religious
concentration of native Catholics and Muslims was less impressive. In
addition, religious diversity showed the expected negative effect for
Catholics, while a positive effect of religious diversity was found for
Moroccan Muslims, but not for Turkish Muslims. The language spoken at
home and visiting the country of birth affected the religious participation
of Muslims, while religious heterogamy affected the religious
participation of Christians.
INTRODUCTION
Since the second half of the past century, the Netherlands has faced a large
influx of non-Western immigrants. In 2014, the largest ethnic minority groups
in the Netherlands were of Turkish, Surinamese, Moroccan and Antillean
origin, with 396,000, 348,000, 342,000 and 147,000 people, respectively, out
of a total Dutch population of 16.8 million (CBS 2015). A vast majority of
these immigrants adhere to non-Christian religions such as Islam and
Hinduism. According to the latest available estimates in 2008, 825,000 people
or about 5 percent of the Dutch population was Muslim (Maliepaard, Gijsberts
and Lubbers 2012). Most of them are of Turkish or Moroccan origin; smaller
groups originate from Surinam, Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia. In total, almost
half of the non-Western immigrants adhere to Islam. In addition, there are
Muslims from Western countries and native Dutch Muslims. The absolute and
relative number of Muslims is steadily growing due to (1) the de-churching
among the Christian religions; (2) a higher fertility rate as compared to the
native-Dutch population; and (3) the influx of asylum-seekers from Muslim
countries and continuing family formation immigration. Given these
paramount changes in Dutch society, it is quite remarkable that so few Dutch
studies have been conducted into the relationship between religion and
ethnicity. It is curious as well, because since the terrorist attacks in 2001, Islam
has faced a huge amount of – almost exclusively negative – attention by the
general public. Only recently, some large-scale studies on ethnic religions
have been published in the Netherlands (Becker and De Wit 2000, Entzinger
and Dourleijn 2008, De Hoon and Van Tubergen 2014, Maliepaard, Lubbers
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and Gijsberts 2012, Maliepaard, Lubbers and Gijsberts 2010, Phalet and Ter
Wal 2004, Phalet, Van Lotringen and Entzinger 2000, Van Tubergen 2006,
2007, 2013).
The lack of interest in ethnic religiosity is yet rather noteworthy for
another reason. The process of secularization, which has been so typical of the
developments within the Christian denominations in Dutch society for the past
fifty years, seems to have passed by the Muslim community in the Netherlands
almost completely (De Hoon and Van Tubergen 2014, Maliepaard, Gijsberts
and Lubbers 2012). So, the lack of attention is regrettable because a variety of
conditions that may explain the differences but also similarities between
Christians and Muslims regarding the secularization process thus remain
unexplored.
In the present study the focus is on the antecedents of religious
participation of the two largest Islamic groups in the Netherlands, namely
immigrants of Turkish and Moroccan descent, and of four native Christian
denominations. The emphasis is primarily on contextual or neighborhood level
effects, although some attention is paid to individual level antecedents. Studies
which compare simultaneously neighborhood effects on immigrant and native
religiosity are virtually non-existent in the Netherlands. We fill up this lacuna
by comparing the outcomes for first-generation Muslim immigrants with those
for native Dutch Christians.
The Dutch Religious Context
Today, less than half of the native Dutch population consider themselves
as being religious, while the religious demand, expressed in the belief that God
or a transcendent reality exists, has decreased substantially, too (De Graaf and
Te Grotenhuis 2008, Driessen 2007, Schmeets 2014). In addition, less than ten
per cent of the native Dutch population now attends religious meetings on a
weekly basis. There are clear indications that the process of secularization will
continue in the future, since the likelihood that the younger generations are
turning to apostasy is still increasing (De Graaf, Need and Ultee 2000, Norris
and Inglehart 2004, Storm and Voas 2012, Te Grotenhuis and Scheepers
2001). A reversed trend of unchurched becoming church members can
practically be ignored: religious switching has always been a rare phenomenon
in the Netherlands (Need and De Graaf 2005). In short, from being one of the
most religious West European countries till the 1950s, the Netherlands has in
just a few decades turned into one of the most secularized countries in the
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world (De Graaf, Need and Ultee 2000, Felling, Peters and Schreuder 1991,
Lechner 1996, Norris and Inglehart 2004, Te Grotenhuis and Scheepers 2001).
What happens to immigrants’ religiosity when they move from a highly
religious country to a highly secular one such as the Netherlands? This
question, first raised by Van Tubergen (2007), is of theoretical importance for
at least two reasons. On the one hand, according to the “accommodation
hypothesis,” immigrants tend to adjust to the characteristics of the receiving
country (De Vaus 1982, Connor 2008). In the typical Dutch secular context
this would imply that immigrants become less religious. On the other hand, the
influx of immigrants has resulted in an increase of religious heterogeneity
because the number of different religious suppliers (mosques in particular) has
risen rather spectacularly. In 2011, the Netherlands had approximately 450
mosques (CMO 2015), a number that is expected to increase in the near future.
According to religious market theory (Stark and Iannacone 1994, Warner
1993), this increased supply would enhance competition on the religious
market and should therefore result in higher rates of religious involvement, not
just among immigrants but among the native Dutch population as well. At
present, opinions regarding a possible religious revitalization differ (see Arts
2008, Schnabel, Bijl and De Hart 2008).
Dutch Research on Immigrant Religiosity
Becker, De Hart and Mens (1997) paid attention to the relationship
between secularization and Islam in the Netherlands. They argue that a
liberalization of Islam due to the influence of the typical Dutch secularized
culture might be possible, yet maintain that a significant amount of apostasy is
unlikely due to strong social control within the Dutch Muslim communities.
Phalet, Van Lotringen and Entzinger (2000) found evidence that regarding
their religiosity, young Turkish and Moroccan adults in the Netherlands differ
in virtually every respect from young native Dutch adults. In contrast to the
majority of young native Dutch adults, they exhibit extremely low rates of
apostasy, consider themselves as religious, conform to the rules of their faith
to a large extent, and attend religious services frequently. However, despite
their higher rates of religiosity, young Moroccan and Turkish adults differ
from each other, too.1
On average, Moroccans score higher on a variety of
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For the sake of readability we will use the terms “Turks” and “Moroccans” and “Turkish” and
“Moroccan” to refer to Dutch citizens of Turkish and Moroccan descent.
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religious indices than young Turkish adults do. Also evidence was found that
for Moroccans, religious self ascription is declining for younger generations,
while it remains constant for Turkish generations. Notwithstanding this,
Turkish and Moroccan Muslims do commit themselves firmly to Islam, not
just as an expression of personal experience, but as an expression of cultural
bounds with their country of origin and as a guiding principle for child rearing.
Phalet and Güngör (2004) have noted that the majority of Turks are “lenient
Muslims.” They take an individualistic and critical stance towards religious
traditions and have chosen a modern interpretation of Islamic faith. This
applies to a lesser extent to Moroccan Muslims. The majority of Moroccans
are “strict Muslims,” while the remaining part is more lenient in their points of
view. At least part of the younger Moroccan generations is more receptive to
the influence of Dutch secularized society than are younger generations of
Turkish descent (Maliepaard, Lubbers and Gijsberts 2010, Phalet, Van
Lotringen and Entzinger 2000).
Research into the relationship between religious participation and
ethnicity has been largely neglected (Driessen 2007, Schuh, Burchardt and
Wohlrab-Sahr 2012). Until recently, there were, at least in the Netherlands,
only a few large-scale samples available which allowed for a detailed analysis
of various ethnic groups.
In the present study we make use of the Dutch Primary Education Cohort
Study (“PRIMA”) data. This large-scale data base contains detailed
information of students and their parents, not just on educational topics but
also on parental background characteristics, including ethnicity and attendance
of religious services. A possible drawback of secondary data bases might be
that they are not well suited for purposes beyond their original scope. We are
aware of this, yet want to emphasize that besides key variables on religious
affiliation and participation, the main virtue of the database under study is its,
at least for the Netherlands, detailed and unprecedented information on the
neighborhood level regarding religious affiliation concentration. With the aid
of these data we want to answer two main questions: (1) how do native Dutch
and immigrants compare in respect of religious affiliation and church/mosque
attendance? And (2) how can differences, if any, between these groups be
explained? We hope to gain insight into the distribution of religious activities
in the Netherlands and the explanation of differences between religious
groups.
In our view, the outcomes will lead to a better understanding of the
process of secularization among ‘old’ as well as ‘new’ religious groups in
Dutch society, both as regards its acceleration and its delay.
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THEORY AND HYPOTHESES
Social Integration Theory
Durkheim’s (1951) social integration theory has been used as a basis for
the development of hypotheses about religion (Need and De Graaf 1996, Te
Grotenhuis and Scheepers 2001, Scheepers, Te Grotenhuis and Van der Slik
2002, Van Tubergen 2007). The central thesis is that the more individuals are
integrated in a social group, the more likely they conform to the group’s
prevailing norms (Berry 2002). If this indeed is the case, it can be expected
that the presence of fellow believers has a positive effect on a variety of
religious expressions, such as church or mosque attendance (Ruiter and Van
Tubergen 2010, Stark 1994, Need and De Graaf 1996, Van Tubergen 2007,
also see Van Ingen and Moor 2015).
Van Tubergen (2007) has identified a variety of social settings that have
been proposed in religious socialization research (Kelley and De Graaf 1997,
Need and De Graaf 1996, Te Grotenhuis and Scheepers 2001), i.e., the
neighborhood that people live in, their family, etcetera. Each of these settings
may affect an individual’s religion differently and we will test several
hypotheses derived from social integration theory.
Hypotheses on Social Settings
The primary social setting under study is the neighborhood.
Neighborhoods are typically not made up of representative samples of the
entire population. They are found to vary considerably regarding income,
employment rates and housing quality (Van der Slik, Driessen and De Bot
2006), while the religious composition of Dutch neighborhoods can differ
substantially, too. For historical reasons, the religious landscape of the
Netherlands is rather diverse (see Hendrickx 1994). Roman Catholics
dominate the southern provinces, though substantial numbers can also be
found in the western and central provinces. A variety of orthodox Protestant
denominations is concentrated in the central and the south-western provinces,
while liberal Protestant denominations are typically found in the western and
northern part of the country (Arts 2008). Unchurched are dispersed over all
regions in the country, though higher concentrations are found in the larger
cities. As a consequence, Protestant neighborhoods are generally more
religiously diverse than neighborhoods in Catholic communities.
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From the 1970s onwards, increasing numbers of Turkish and Moroccan
Muslim immigrants have arrived in the Netherlands, and as in most host
countries, they did not settle homogeneously over the country. They typically
concentrated in areas based on three considerations (Bartel 1989), i.e., (1)
close to ports of entry; (2) where family, friends and former fellow-villagers
have migrated to; and (3) near where (mostly low-qualified) jobs were
available. The vast majority of the Turkish and Moroccan immigrants in the
Netherlands are poorly educated, originate from underdeveloped rural areas,
and are concentrated in urban deprived neighborhoods of the Dutch cities.
Although the numbers of Turkish and Moroccan immigrants are still slightly
increasing, mainly because of the popularity of marrying a spouse from the
country of origin, the rise of immigration is flattening out since 2005 as a
result of the implementation of considerable stricter admission rules (Sterckx,
Dagevos, Huijnk and Van Lisdonk 2014).
A neighborhood’s religious composition may have important
consequences for the religious commitment of its inhabitants. In areas with
large concentrations of members of the own group, social control may by
extensive, particularly regarding religious participation, because it concerns
visible behavior. In addition, inhabitants may maintain high levels of religious
participation in order to preserve their social status in their religious
community. This “semi-voluntary thesis” (Ellison and Sherkat 1995) may not
just be applicable to tight-knit orthodox Protestant communities. It might pose
a plausible explanation for ethnic minority communities, too, in which its
inhabitants have kinship bonds, and are partly economically interdependent
due to local ethnic entrepreneurship. Conversely, living in a neighborhood
inhabited by fewer members of the own religious group implies that people
either are exposed to secular norms and values of non-affiliated native Dutch,
or that they are exposed to the religious norms of other denominations or
religions. Congruent with such a hypothesis, Van Tubergen (2007) found a
significant neighborhood effect of non-Western immigrant concentration on
immigrants’ religious participation. Unfortunately, the data used by Van
Tubergen did not allow for making a detailed distinction between
concentrations of Muslim and non-Muslim ethnic minority groups.
Consequently, the social integration thesis could not be tested adequately. In
contrast, the data base used in the present study is suited to make such
distinctions. We expect that the degree of concentration of fellow Muslims in
the neighborhood has a strong effect on Muslims’ attendance of religious
services (H1a). In addition, it will be explored what the impact is of the
concentration of other immigrant groups, both Muslim and non-Muslim.
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As opposed to first-generation immigrants, native Dutch church members
have been exposed to the secularized Dutch climate their entire life and it has
been found that church members adapt to the religious characteristics of the
context they live in (Kelley and De Graaf 1997). Hence, we hypothesize that
the degree of concentration of own Christian group members in the
neighborhood has a strong effect on Christians’ attendance of religious
services (H1b). The effect of the degree of concentration of members of other
Christian denominations on religious participation will be explored as well.
Next to religious/ethnic concentration, religious/ethnic diversity might
also affect religious participation. According to Putnam’s (2007) constrict
theory, higher degrees of ethnic heterogeneity result in social anomy or social
isolation, at least temporarily. “In colloquial language, people living in
ethnically diverse settings appear to ‘hunker down’- that is to pull in like a
turtle” (Putnam 2007: 149). Concentration and diversity are not the same as
sometimes is assumed. While concentration refers to the proportion of group
members, ethnic diversity refers to the sheer number of different groups. A
neighborhood populated by Turkish Muslims only, is less heterogeneous than
a neighborhood inhabited by immigrants originating from many different
countries. In line with constrict theory, religious participation will be lower in
religiously highly diverse neighborhoods because people living in such
neighborhoods are expected to withdraw from social life. We thus hypothesize
that religious diversity is negatively associated with attendance of religious
services for both Muslims (H2a) and Christians (H2b).
Religious diversity may not just be studied at the meso or neighborhood
level, but also at the micro level, i.e., within the family. Although in the
present study the primary focus is on contextual effects, a limited number of
individual effects will be examined as well. It has been found that religious
heterogamy has a “secularizing” effect on church attendance (Hendrickx 1994,
Petersen 1986, Williams and Lawler 2001). Although selection effects before
marriage are likely to play a role, too, we assume that if spouses are members
of different churches, they will decide to attend services less regularly and
expand other, joint recreational activities rather than visiting religious services
separately. In addition, married to an unchurched spouse may even have a
stronger secularizing effect, because in this particular case one lacks the social
support or the plausibility structure (Berger 1967) needed to sustain one’s
religious commitment (Petersen 1986).
Hence, we hypothesize that for both Muslims (H3a) and Christians (H3b)
religiously heterogamous individuals less often attend religious services than
religiously homogamous individuals.
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An important aspect of the family setting for immigrants is whether they
speak Dutch at home. Immigrants whose home language is Dutch are assumed
to be accustomed to Dutch society to a larger degree than immigrants who
speak their mother tongue at home. If immigrants speak Dutch at home it may
be assumed that they also talk more often to native Dutch in their
neighborhood, and probably watch Dutch broadcasting on a regular basis, too.
In sum, these immigrants may be expected to be influenced by Dutch culture
to a higher degree than immigrants who do not speak Dutch in their homes.
We, therefore, hypothesize that Muslims who speak Dutch in the family attend
religious services less often than Muslims who speak their mother tongue in
the family (H4).
Next to these family settings, the role of several immigration related
factors can be studied for immigrants. These include: proficiency in Dutch,
length of residence, and visiting the country of birth. Immigrants with a poor
command of the dominant native language will experience more difficulty in
interacting with natives. Hence, they will interact with immigrants from their
country of origin more often, who are more religious than native Dutch (Van
Tubergen 2007). We, therefore, hypothesize that the more proficient Muslims
are in the Dutch language, the less often they attend religious services (H5).
Length of residence may also have an effect since it is argued that ethnic and
religious involvement will weaken over time (Van Tubergen 2007). We,
therefore, expect that length of residence is inversely related to Muslims’
religious participation (H6). As regards visiting their country of origin, we
should note that it is not uncommon for Turkish and Moroccan immigrants to
undertake such visits during summer holidays. These visits may have a
conserving effect on religious participation for at least two reasons. Firstly,
staying in close contact with those who stayed behind may perpetuate the
prevailing religious practices of the country of origin. Secondly, such visits
may reinforce identification with the immigrant’s reference group in the
country of origin. Hence, we hypothesize that the more often Muslims visit
their country of origin, the more often they attend religious services (H7).
METHOD
Sample
The data we employed stem from the national cohort study Primary
Education (“PRIMA”). Within the PRIMA study, students have been traced
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since the 1994/95 school year via the administration of various tests and
questionnaires once every two years to the students and their parents, teachers
and head teachers. A total of about 60,000 students from kindergarten, grade 2,
grade 4 and grade 6 from 600 primary schools, or 9 per cent of all Dutch
elementary schools, have been involved. For the present chapter, use is made
of the data from the third PRIMA measurement wave during the school year
1998/99 (Driessen, Van Langen and Vierke 2000). The PRIMA sample is
characterized by an overrepresentation of schools with students from
disadvantaged social–ethnic backgrounds. This was intentionally done to
guarantee inclusion of enough members from ethnic smaller groups in the
sample and to grasp the typical situation of schools with high concentrations of
ethnic minority students. For the present study, the analyses were not aimed at
the students but at the parents of children in kindergarten. The sample thus
contains data from 554 schools and a total of 10,680 parents. We used these
elementary schools as proxies for the neighborhoods parents and their children
live in. The justification for this lies in the fact that, although school choice in
principle is unrestricted in the Netherlands, most students attend elementary
schools in the direct proximity of their homes (Denessen, Driessen and
Sleegers 2005). Bussing programs for children from deprived families, for
example, that would complicate the interpretation of school effects as
neighborhood effects, are absent in the Netherlands.
Questionnaire
In the parents’ questionnaire, in addition to religious variables,
information was asked about their social and ethnic background and a variety
of participation and integration characteristics. We made use of the
information on the fathers, and in case this information was unavailable (single
parent families) we used the data on the mothers. We employed the fathers’
data as the primary input, because the data on the mothers might be difficult to
interpret in case mothers are Muslims. The position of Muslim women differs
a priori from the position of Muslim men, and this is certainly the case
regarding attendance of mosque services, because women are not required to
attend mosque services. For this reason, the inclusion of gender by definition
leads to results that are difficult to interpret in such analyses (see Dekker and
Keuzenkamp 2006, Sullins 2006).
The response rate on the questionnaire was 73 per cent. Despite that the
questionnaire was accompanied by an instruction in Turkish and Arabic, a
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disproportionate part of lower educated immigrant parents did not participate
in the survey. Elsewhere it has been shown, however, that, as a result of
overrepresentation of parents from deprived families in the total sample at the
one hand, and underrepresentation of parents with these kinds of
characteristics that completed the questionnaire at the other hand, the final
sample tends to representativity with regard to social and ethnic background
(Driessen and Doesborgh 2003). This, of course, does not imply that those
immigrant parents who have responded are a random sample with regard to
other characteristics as well. Regrettably, the data are restricted in the sense
that all participants were parents and also that they had at least one child
enrolled in primary school. Such restrictions may incorporate the risk of
finding outcomes not completely in line with those for the entire population.
These limitations would not have been encountered if a large representative
sample could have been analyzed. At present, such a data base does not exist
for the Netherlands. Missing data have been imputed by means of average
scores.
Variables
The variables of central interest are religious affiliation, religious
participation and ethnicity. In addition, we have constructed a number of
indicators that will be used to test which factors affect religious participation.
We provide an overview of the operationalization of these indicators below.
Religious affiliation was identified on the basis of the answer on the one-
stage question: “Which church, denomination, or group with a particular
philosophy of life, do you consider yourself to be a member of?” Answer
categories were: (1) none, (2) Roman-Catholic, (3) Reformed Protestant, (4)
Re-reformed Protestant, (5) Christian,2
(6) Islamic, (7) Hinduism, (8) other.
Ethnicity was based on the country of birth: (1) the Netherlands (native
Dutch), (2) Antillean, (3) Surinamese, (4) Turkish, (5) Moroccan, (6) other
immigrant.
The dependent variable religious participation was measured by means of
frequency of attendance of religious services, for example in a church,
2
In the questionnaire the term “Christian” was used to identify persons who consider themselves
Christian in a general sense, i.e., not being a member of a specific church or denomination
(Catholic or Protestant). No answer category was available for other Protestant churches
than Reformed and Re-reformed despite that a large variety of other Protestant churches
exist in the Netherlands.
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synagogue or mosque: (1) (almost) never, (2) several times a year, (3) one till
three times a month, (4) at least once a week. We recoded these answer
categories into estimated attendances per year, with scores of 1, 3, 24, and 60
respectively. The advantage of this procedure is that religious participation can
be considered as an interval scale which can be analyzed with conventional
linear regression procedures. However, the transformation is based on only
four categories and the distribution proved to be non-normal. Therefore,
religious participation can also be treated as an ordinal variable, in which case
an ordered logit regression procedure is more appropriate. We conducted such
analyses but because the outcomes of these analyses were virtually identical to
those of the conventional linear regression analyses and are more difficult to
interpret we present only the latter.3
Religious concentration. We have information of parental religious
background. In order to get an indication of the religious make-up of the
neighborhood where the parents reside, their religious background was
aggregated using data of their children’s classmates’ parents. A
neighborhood’s religious concentration is expressed as percentages of
religiously affiliated or religiously non-affiliated. We have constructed the
following measures: percentage native Dutch non-affiliated; percentage native
Dutch Catholics; percentage native Dutch Reformed Protestants; percentage
native Dutch Re-reformed Protestants; percentage native Dutch other
Christians; percentage Turkish Muslims; percentage Moroccan Muslims;
percentage other immigrant Muslims; percentage immigrant non-Muslims
(of Surinamese or Antillean descent in particular).4
Religious diversity. The indicator for parental religiosity was also used to
express the number of different religious groups in a neighborhood, corrected
for their size. A Herfindahl index was calculated as a measure for religious
heterogeneity. The index is defined as 1 – ( (p group 1)2
+ (p group 2)2
+ (p group 3)2
+ … + (p group n)2
). The nine religious groups listed above were included. In
case of nine groups the religious diversity measure can range from 0 to 0.89. A
value of 0 implies no diversity at all, i.e., the neighborhood is inhabited by
members of one religious group only, whereas 0.89 implies that in that
3
Results of the ordered logit analyses can be obtained from the first author.
4
These variables have dummy-like characteristics, i.e., they are practically mutually dependent.
If, for example, a neighborhood is inhabited by 50 per cent Protestants and 30 per cent
Catholics, then the percentage of Muslims and unchurched can never exceed 20 per cent.
For this reason, the variables cannot be analyzed simultaneously and we made selections of
what we considered to be theoretically relevant.
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particular neighborhood, members of all nine religious groups are present in
equal proportions.
Family setting. Two indicators were available that pertain to the family
setting. We have constructed two types of religious heterogamy. Either the
father was married to a non-affiliated wife, or the father was married to a wife
who was affiliated to another denomination or religion. The reference category
included fathers who were religious homogamous.5
Home language involved
the language parents usually speak to each other: (1) Dutch, Dutch dialect, or
Frisian, or (0) a foreign language.
Immigration related factors. Command of Dutch was measured as the
average self-assessment regarding the modalities speaking, understanding,
reading and writing: (1) not at all to poor, (2) reasonably well, (3) good to
excellent. Length of residence in the Netherlands: (1) up to 5 years, (2) 5 – 9
years, (3) 10 – 14 years, (4) 15 – 19 years, (5) 20 – 24 years, (6) 25 years or
more (but not always), or (7) entire life. Frequency of visiting country of birth
during the past 5 years: (1) never or once, (2) twice, (3) three times, (4) four
times, or (5) five times or more.
RESULTS
Religiosity and Ethnicity
In Table 1, we provide the distributions of religious affiliation broken
down by ethnicity. It can be seen in Table 1 that more than 30 per cent of the
respondents were non-affiliated, 30 per cent were Roman-Catholic, more than
13 per cent were Reformed or Re-reformed Protestants, and 18 per cent were
Muslim. Large differences regarding non-affiliation were found between the
ethnic groups. Almost 40 per cent of the native Dutch were non-affiliated,
whereas only 1 per cent of the Turks and Moroccans indicated that they were
non-affiliated. Turks and Moroccans are Muslim almost without exception.
Within the total sample, Islam with 18.4 per cent is the second largest
community, whereas the Catholic community with 30.5 per cent of the sample
is the largest.
5
In case mothers were unavailable (divorced, deceased), the father’s answer was used. In
addition, we constructed a dummy variable, measuring as to whether the mother was
present or not. Exploratory analyses revealed that the effect of this “mother not present”
variable was not significant in either of the analyses. So we decided not to include it in the
final analyses.
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In Table 2, we present attendance of religious services in average times a
year, broken down by affiliation and ethnicity. Numerical considerations did
allow us to make a distinction only between the total group attendees and the
largest ethnic groups for each religious group.
Table 2 shows that Re-reformed attended religious services most often,
followed by Muslims and other Christians. Catholics seldom attended church
services which is consistent with previous Dutch findings. In fact, their
average number of attendances per year was only somewhat higher than the
average attendance of the non-affiliated Dutch. Moroccan Muslims visited
mosque services more often than Turkish Muslims.
Table 3 provides the distribution of members of various religious
communities within neighborhoods in terms of percentages. The data reveal
that neighborhoods varied considerably regarding their religious composition.
An average neighborhood was inhabited for the most part by Catholics and
non-affiliated native Dutch, but, as can be seen in Table 3, some
neighborhoods were strongly populated by other religious communities.
Table 2. Attendance of religious services by denomination and ethnicity
(mean times per year)
Denomination Ethnicity Mean SD n
Non-affiliated Total 1.7 4.9 3241
Dutch 1.6 4.5 3029
Catholic Total 6.3 11.5 3257
Dutch 5.8 10.5 2911
Reformed Protestant Total 16.5 22.1 881
Dutch 16.7 22.3 851
Re-reformed Protestant Total 36.9 25.0 518
Dutch 37.1 25.0 510
Other Christian Total 29.3 27.0 469
Dutch 30.2 27.4 313
Islam Total 31.5 26.2 1969
Turkish 31.7 25.7 874
Moroccan 38.3 25.8 703
Hindu Total 8.9 16.2 146
Other Total 22.0 26.1 19.9
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Table 3. Ethnic Religious concentration and diversity of neighborhoods
(n = 554)
Range Mean SD
% Turkish Muslims 0 – 85 8.8 16.0
% Moroccan Muslims 0 – 100 7.3 14.5
% Other immigrant Muslims 0 – 50 3.5 7.7
% Other immigrant
non-Muslims
0 – 100 10.6 14.4
% Non-affiliated 0 – 100 29.0 25.2
% Catholics 0 – 100 23.9 28.2
% Reformed Protestants 0 – 83 9.0 15.7
% Re-reformed Protestants 0 – 93 4.8 12.3
% Other Christians 0 – 50 3.1 7.0
Religious diversity
(Herfindahl index)
0 – 0.83 0.56 0.19
Religious diversity ranged from 0 to 0.83, with an average of 0.56
(SD = 0.19). Given that maximum diversity occurs in case of a score of 0.89,
this shows that a neighborhood’s religious heterogeneity may vary
substantially.
To check for potential problems of multicollinearity in the forthcoming
analyses, we present the correlations between the religious composition
measures in Table 4. Although these correlations are, with a few exceptions
significant, the overlap between them never exceeds 15 per cent, implying that
the risk of impeding multicollinearity can be ignored.
Hypotheses Tested
Some of our hypotheses can be tested for immigrants only because the
characteristics they refer to are exclusively associated with (the consequences
of) immigration. Other, more general hypotheses can also be tested for the
native Dutch population.
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Table 5. Parameters of multi-level models for attendance of religious
services of Turkish and Moroccan Muslims
Turkish Muslims
(n = 874)
Moroccan Muslims
(n = 704)
B SE B SE
Family setting
Religious homogamy Reference
- Spouse different church –2.03 9.58 –20.11 11.35
- Spouse unchurched –14.75 14.70 –10.33 8.78
Home language –14.08** 4.11 –10.14** 3.19
Proficiency in Dutch 0.33 1.58 1.32 1.67
Length of residence –0.77 0.67 0.65 0.68
Visiting country of birth –0.41 0.65 2.33** 0.74
Neighborhood setting
% Turkish Muslims 20.62*** 6.24 –10.09 5.98
% Moroccan Muslims 24.73*** 6.57 25.30*** 6.22
% Other immigrant
Muslims
30.22** 12.10 21.26* 10.80
% Other immigrant non-
Muslims
14.22 8.70 –15.51 8.84
Religious diversity 1.17 9.67 25.32** 9.55
Intercept 19.66* 8.70 5.29 8.72
Explained variance as
compared to null model:
Individual level 8.5% 9.5%
Neighborhood level 35.7% 34.2%
* p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001.
Because we had variables at the individual level at our disposal as well as
at the neighborhood level, we made use of multilevel analysis (statistical
package MLwiN 2.18).8
In Table 5, we present the research outcomes regarding the religious
attendance of Moroccan and Turkish Muslims. Before performing our central
analyses, we checked which part of the variance in religious participation is
accounted for by neighborhood factors. For Moroccan Muslims, this is 8 per
8
In order to calculate the explained variances for the various models, we followed the procedures
advocated by Snijders and Bosker (1999: 99-105), which take neighborhood size into
account.
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cent, and for Turkish Muslims this is twice that amount, namely 16 per cent.
These variance components are, though quite common, not very substantial
and indicate that the religious participation of Dutch Muslims can only to a
some extent be attributed to the influence of the secularized climate of Dutch
society. Nevertheless, some remarkable differences between Turkish and
Moroccan Muslims can be observed. Mosque attendance of Turkish Muslims
appeared to increase when the percentage Muslims in the neighborhood
increased. It does not matter whether these Muslims were of the own ethnic
group or of other groups (Moroccan or other immigrant Muslims). For
Moroccan Muslims, however, the presence of more Turkish Muslims in the
neighborhood did not increase the likelihood of visiting the mosque more
often, since the effect of the concentration of Turkish Muslims in the
neighborhood was not significant. Apparently, in Dutch neighborhoods,
Turkish and Moroccan Muslims react differently to each other’s presence, and,
thus, it makes sense to differentiate between them in empirical research.
Another interesting finding was that the presence of other immigrant non-
Muslims in the neighborhood had no effect on the religious participation of
Turkish and Moroccan Muslims. The fact that a neighborhood is inhabited by
a variety of immigrant groups is apparently not of importance for mosque
attendance, but rather the fact that the neighborhood is inhabited by groups
with a similar religious tradition. These outcomes thus qualify the results of
Van Tubergen’s (2007) study who found that concentration of immigrants
affects mosque attendance. It has to be emphasized, however, that the effect of
the presence or absence of Muslims in the immediate neighborhood on
mosque attendance is rather small. Hypothesis H1a appears thus to be
confirmed only partially for Dutch Muslims. Quite remarkably, and in clear
contradiction with hypothesis 2a, religious diversity has a positive rather than
a negative effect on mosque attendance of Moroccan Muslims. The more
religious diverse a neighborhood is, the more Moroccans visit a mosque. As
already noted, 16 per cent of the variance of mosque attendance by Turkish
Muslims is accounted for by neighborhood factors. Of this 16 per cent, 35.7
per cent can be explained by the presence of fellow believers. So, in total
almost 6 per cent (=35.7% x 0.16) of the variation in mosque attendance of
Turkish Muslims can be explained by the presence or absence of fellow
believers in the neighborhood. For Moroccan Muslims this percentage is even
smaller: 3 per cent (=34.2% x 0.08).
Although in the predicted direction, Hypothesis 3a that pertains to
religious heterogamy was rejected, because the effects of religious heterogamy
were not significant. It has to be noted however, that the likelihood of finding
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significant effects was rather small. Explorative analyses revealed that Dutch
Muslims marry almost without exception within the own religious group.
Hypothesis H4 was supported. Turkish and Moroccan Muslims who speak
Dutch at home less often attend religious services more.
As far as the immigration related factors are concerned, only the
hypothesis with respect to visiting the country of birth (H7) was supported for
Moroccan Muslims. The more frequent they visit their country of birth, the
more often they attend mosque services. Both proficiency in Dutch (H5) and
length of residence (H6) were unrelated to religious participation.
Table 6 shows the results of the analyses for the native Dutch, broken
down for the largest Christian communities in the Netherlands. Again, before
performing the final analyses, we checked which part of the variance in
religious participation was accounted for by social context factors. For
Catholics we found this to be 16 per cent, for Reformed Protestants this was
30 per cent, for Re-reformed Protestants 56 per cent and for other Christians
45 per cent. For Re-reformed Protestants and other Christians in particular,
these are substantial percentages, indicating that religious participation
depends by no means solely on individual characteristics. These outcomes are
also remarkable when one keeps in mind that Catholicism has been
characterized as a collectivist religion, while Protestantism generally is seen as
an individualistic faith (cf. Greeley, 1989). The religious concentration
hypothesis (H1b) was supported for all Christian groups except for Catholics.
A high concentration of fellow-believers in the immediate proximity had a
strong positive effect on individual religious participation, while, conversely, a
high concentration of non-affiliated was associated with less frequent church
attendance. It is of particular relevance that the presence of larger numbers of
Re-reformed Protestants and other Christians – but not of Catholics and
Reformed Protestants – increased the likelihood of attending church services
not just for the own but for all denominations, because their presence exhibited
the highest levels of religious participation. Interestingly, the neighborhood
setting hypothesis was rejected for Catholics, because higher concentrations of
Catholics in the neighborhood did not result in increased church attendance.
On the other hand, and quite remarkably, the religious diversity hypothesis
(H2b) was only supported for Catholics, implying that the more diverse a
neighborhood’s religious make-up is, the less likely it is that Catholics
attended church.9
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Initially, the presence of fellow believers had a significant effect for Catholics, too, but this
effect was explained away when religious diversity was included in the model.
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We already noted that about half of the variation in church attendance of
Re-reformed and other Christians was accounted for by neighborhood factors.
For the Re-reformed it was found that 37 per cent (=66.6% x 0.56) can be
attributed to the proportion of Re-reformed Protestants and other Christians in
the neighborhood.
The larger the share of people belonging to these two denominations in the
immediate living environment, the more often people attended church
services. For the other Christians the outcomes allow the conclusion that 35
per cent (=77.4% x 0.45) of the variation in church attendance of other
Christians can be explained by the proportion of Re-reformed and other
Christians in the neighborhood.
Conversely, the larger the share of non-affiliated and the share of
members of other denominations in the neighborhood, the less frequent their
religious participation is (cf. note 4).
Church attendance cannot be explained very well by making use of the
data available at the individual level. For example, no more than 17 per cent (=
38.9% x 0.44) of the variation in church attendance for Re-reformed
Protestants was explained. It is quite striking that for Catholics it was not the
presence of other Catholics in the neighborhood had an effect on individual
church attendance, but rather the presence of higher concentrations of Re-
reformed Protestants and other Christians. A similar observation can be made
for Reformed Protestants: in addition to the presence of church members of
their own church, it appears that the presence of Re-reformed and other
Christians (but not Catholics) is important for explaining their church
attendance. Apparently, the presence of these Christians is a stimulus for
members of all denominations to attend church services more often. The
variation in church attendance of Catholics, however, can be explained less
well by means of the presence of church members in the neighborhood: 5 per
cent (=33.3% x 0.16). Finally, Hypothesis H3b on religious heterogamy was
supported for all Christian denominations. Being married to a non-affiliated
spouse or a spouse who is a member of another church affects religious
participation negatively.
CONCLUSION
One of the main findings of the present study was that the strength of
neighborhood effects, i.e., the presence or absence of members of one’s own
religious group in predicting religious participation, varied strongly between
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religious groups. They were hardly of any relevance for Muslims and
Catholics, while they were of major importance for various Protestant
denominations.
Muslims living in a neighborhood with low concentrations of Muslims
exhibit virtually equally high levels of religious participation as Muslims
living in neighborhoods with high concentrations of Muslims. Potential
explanations for these unanticipated results might be the following.
Immigrants, religiously socialized in their country of origin, where high levels
of religious participation are the norm (Van Tubergen 2007), may be relatively
immune against the secularizing influences of the host country for at least two
reasons. First, immigrants may be less affected by their current social context
because they identify themselves with a reference group (see Hyman and
Singer 1968), not necessarily present in their immediate proximity (Merton
1968). Identification with a distant reference group may be particularly salient
in case immigrants are faced with various forms of discrimination in the host
country, but is also more easily to maintain when, like in the Netherlands,
satellite TV and internet is commonly available. Moreover, for young Muslims
virtual communities on social media like Facebook or Twitter may become as
important as their physical environment (cf. Thompson 2011). Another
explanation for the relative immunity of immigrants against the secularizing
effect of Dutch society may be the high rates of marrying a spouse from the
country or even village of birth (Hooghiemstra 2003). Socialized in a highly
religious country, these imported brides and grooms may form an effective
barrier against the secularizing effects of Dutch society on their spouses’
religious participation.
For Reformed and Re-reformed Protestants and other Christians,
neighborhood effects were of much greater importance in explaining the
variance in church attendance than for Muslims. For each of the three
Christian groups, the presence or absence of members of one’s own group in
the neighborhood is important for the explanation of individual church
attendance. This might be considered as evidence for integration in, and
confirmation of the own religious community, but only in as far as own group
members live in their immediate proximity. The frequency of church
attendance is much lower if Re-reformed Protestants and other Christians
reside with other unchurched Dutch. In addition, for all Christians, including
Catholics, a strong effect of the presence of frequently participating Re-
reformed Protestants and other Christians was observed.
For Catholics, neighborhood effects were found to be only very limited,
comparable to the strength of neighborhood effects for Moroccan and Turkish
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Muslims. In terms of conforming to religious behaviors like attending
religious services, the Catholic community in the Netherlands is – as we have
seen – one of the most secularized ones, whereas the Muslim and Protestant
communities appear to be the least secularized ones. So, it seems that for
Dutch Catholics the relative absence of neighborhood effects exemplifies in
just another way that its community’s ties are weakening, at least with respect
to church attendance.
One might raise objections against our decision to study neighborhood
effects of Muslim immigrants and native Christians simultaneously.
Remember however that a main focus of our study was on factors that may
accelerate or delay the widespread secularization in Dutch society. Our line of
reasoning is that if neighborhood effects constitute such a factor, one wants to
get the bigger picture.
The remaining hypotheses received partial support. In some cases the
outcomes were not statistically significant while in others the findings were
contrary to the expectations. The hypotheses regarding religious heterogamy
were supported for Christians only, while the religious diversity hypothesis
was only confirmed for Catholics. For Moroccan Muslims we found a difficult
to explain positive effect of religious diversity: the more religious diverse their
neighborhood is, the more Moroccan Muslims visit mosques.
Some issues have to be raised that might offer an explanation for the
outcomes of this study. Regarding the question on religious affiliation it is not
entirely clear how people have interpreted the answer category “other
Christian.” This category was intended to provide a possibility for non-
affiliated Dutch who nevertheless consider themselves Christian. But given
their high visibility in the neighborhood at the one hand, and their high rates of
church attendance at the other, it seems not unlikely that this category was
rather popular among church members of small orthodox Protestant churches
who are reluctant to consider themselves as members of the mainstream
Protestant denominations, as well. In future research a less ambiguous mode of
questioning would be preferable. Secondly, based on a literature review, we
have formulated a number of hypotheses in terms of causal effects. Perhaps
this does not have to be correct in all cases. For example, the observed relation
between neighborhood composition and religious participation might be the
result of selection effects. Religiously active church members might prefer to
live in neighborhoods with high concentrations of members of their own
religious group. Elsewhere, however, it has been documented that residential
choice is determined more strongly by other factors, such as income and
housing quality (Bartel 1989, Van Tubergen 2007). Thirdly, objections can be
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raised against the way religious participation has been operationalized. This
has been done rather crudely. Based on the answers of the respondents, the
number of religious services people attend to in a year has been estimated. In
order to check the consequences of the estimation procedure, we also used
ordered logit analyses. The outcomes were similar to those reported here.
Other forms of religious participation, like praying, or being involved in
charity activities might, however, be studied as well. Unfortunately, these
measures were unavailable. Fourthly, and finally, religious beliefs and
religious attitudes or orientations were not included in this study, though it is
commonly known that these expressions of individual faith are strongly
correlated with church attendance. We would agree that this is an omission,
but on the other hand the present study has made it evident once again that a
social-psychological inspired attitude-behavior model is insufficient to explain
individual behavior. Whether people visit religious meetings depends in
various degrees on the religious composition of their neighborhood. It thus has
become clear that this variety in context effects for Protestants, Catholics and
Muslims may affect the process of secularization in different ways for these
religious groups. Moreover, this study has uncovered one of the secularization
mechanisms that has not been studied adequately in the past: the degree to
which neighborhood effects occur, signals the sensitivity of religious groups to
the process of secularization. The questions that now arise are the following.
Are neighborhood effects on religious involvement going to increase for Dutch
Muslim communities in the near future now the number of wedding partners
originating from the country of birth are decreasing? And second, can social
media become as important or even take over the role the neighborhood in the
near future?
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ETHNIC MINORITIES
PERCEPTIONS,
CULTURAL BARRIERS AND
HEALTH INEQUALITIES
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