Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell show that Mormons are less likely to marry outside of the faith.

Date
2010
Type
Book
Source
Robert D. Putnam
Non-LDS
Hearsay
Secondary
Reference

Robert D. Putnam, David E. Campbell, American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010), 155-156

Scribe/Publisher
Simon and Schuster
People
David E. Campbell, Robert D. Putnam
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

Figure 5.7 shows that Mormons, Jews, evangelicals, Black Protestants, and Latino Catholics remain more insistent on their children marrying inside the faith than other Americans.

. . . .Turning next to evidence on actual intermarriage rates, Figure 5.8 (which does not control for opportunity and includes all American adults in 2006). . . .provide[s] relevant evidence. Figure 5.8 shows separate bars for marriages between people who are currently in different religious traditions and for marriages in which the spouses came originally from different religious traditions, with the difference between the two representing conversion by one or both partners.

As Figure 5.8 shows, intermarriage is rarer among Latino Catholics, Black Protestants, and Mormons, but intermarriage is common in all other religious traditions.

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