Study: College-educated Christians more likely to attend church weekly

[RI]

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/04/education-church-attendance/524346/?utm_source=polfb

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The article presents the hypothesis that college allows Christians to better find a community they can latch on to compared to those who've graduated only high school. Another hypothesis I've seen is that college acts as a sieve to divide "true believers" from nominal Christians. However, I don't see either of these hypotheses answering why this impacts Christians but not Jews or Muslims.

[Bismarck]

Seems plausible to me from experience. In my hometown the most religious people were upper middle class professsionals. The working class towny people I knew typically didn't attend church.

[RINO Tom]

Only semi-related, but this reminds me of how - based on most reading I've done - social conservatism wasn't really thought of as a "populist" thing, associated with the "working class," until relatively recently.  The moralist Federalist, Whigs and Republicans certainly weren't struggling to get by.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Only semi-related, but this reminds me of how - based on most reading I've done - social conservatism wasn't really thought of as a "populist" thing, associated with the "working class," until relatively recently.  The moralist Federalist, Whigs and Republicans certainly weren't struggling to get by.

Yeah, the traditional stereotype of working-class morals was relative lack of sexual restraint. You could argue that hypocrisy has been added to that stereotype rather than the core stereotype actually changing, but it's still a pretty big shift in perceptions.

[TDAS04]

At my private Lutheran college, they encouraged us to attend chapel services weekly, and it helped me get into the habit.

[DC Al Fine]

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/04/education-church-attendance/524346/?utm_source=polfb

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The article presents the hypothesis that college allows Christians to better find a community they can latch on to compared to those who've graduated only high school. Another hypothesis I've seen is that college acts as a sieve to divide "true believers" from nominal Christians. However, I don't see either of these hypotheses answering why this impacts Christians but not Jews or Muslims.

The Muslim one is pretty clearly a sample selection one, given that they are mostly immigrants. The pool of Muslims who:
a) Go to college
Or
b) Immigrate to the West

must be quite different from the general population of both Arab Muslims or Western Christians.