Serving God and Country? Religious Involvement and Military Service among Young Adult Men.
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SUBMITTER: Burdette AM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3442261 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Dec
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Serving God and Country? Religious Involvement and Military Service among Young Adult Men.
Burdette Amy M AM Elder Glen H GH Benson Janel J Wang Victor V Hill Terrance T
Journal for the scientific study of religion 20091201 4
Despite important connections between religion and military action throughout world history, scholars have seldom explored the association between religiosity and military enlistment. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), we used a person-oriented analysis to categorize young men according to patterns of adolescent religious involvement. Youth indentified as "highly religious evangelical" are more likely to enlist in the military compared to their "hi ...[more]
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