Table 9.

Marginal Effect of Education (Odds Ratios) for Respondents in Different Religious Traditions

	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3
Panel A. No longer believes in personal God
College effect for W1 conservative Protestant	.63†a	.64†b	.83 a
College effect for W1 mainline Protestant	1.79 a,j	2.06 b, k,l	2.01 a,j
College effect for W1 black Protestant	.62	.76	.80
College effect for W1 Catholic	.47*j, o	.46*k, o	.58 j, p
College effect for W1 no religion	1.57 o	1.69 o	2.22 p
College effect for W1 other religions	.56	.59 l	.62
Panel B. No longer believes in miracles
College effect for W1 conservative Protestant	.62†	.57†a	.76
College effect for W1 mainline Protestant	1.44	1.57 a	1.76
College effect for W1 black Protestant	.98	1.02	1.13
College effect for W1 Catholic	1.33	1.24	1.33
College effect for W1 no religion	1.34	1.43	1.87
College effect for W1 other religions	.71	.67	.88
Panel C. Increased doubts about religion
College effect for W1 conservative Protestant	1.75*	1.58	1.70†
College effect for W1 mainline Protestant	.95	.83	.85
College effect for W1 black Protestant	1.41	1.30	1.39
College effect for W1 Catholic	1.53	1.26	1.28
College effect for W1 no religion	1.57	1.34	1.45
College effect for W1 other religions	1.51	1.57	1.57
Panel D. No longer believes it is OK to convert others
College effect for W1 conservative Protestant	.47**	.46**a	.53*
College effect for W1 mainline Protestant	1.04	1.17 a	1.16
College effect for W1 black Protestant	.87	.89	.90
College effect for W1 Catholic	.70	.70	.88
College effect for W1 no religion	1.12	1.05	1.14
College effect for W1 other religions	1.00	1.09	1.27
Panel E. No longer believes only one religion is true
College effect for W1 conservative Protestant	.79	.83	1.24
College effect for W1 mainline Protestant	2.26	2.71 g	4.88*h, i
College effect for W1 black Protestant	.49	.51 g	.49 h
College effect for W1 Catholic	1.15	.96	.76 i
College effect for W1 no religion	.11	.06	.37
College effect for W1 other religions	.98	1.17	.80
Panel F. No longer believes it is not OK to pick and choose religious beliefs
College effect for W1 conservative Protestant	.43**c, d, f	.45**c, d, f	.52*b, d, f
College effect for W1 mainline Protestant	2.27 c, l	2.53†c, g, m	2.18 b,l
College effect for W1 black Protestant	.79 n	.71 g, n	.72 n
College effect for W1 Catholic	1.49 d	1.57 d, q	1.73 d, q
College effect for W1 no religion	2.60†f, n, r	2.49 f, n, r	2.63†f, n, r
College effect for W1 other religions	.57 l, r	.55 m, q, r	.59 l, o, r
Panel G. “Spiritual but not religious” more true now
College effect for W1 conservative Protestant	.96	.95	1.06
College effect for W1 mainline Protestant	1.01	.97	.98
College effect for W1 black Protestant	.83	.85	.92
College effect for W1 Catholic	1.10	1.09	1.17
College effect for W1 no religion	.65	.61	.61
College effect for W1 other religions	.96	.97	1.00

^***p < .001

^**p < .01

^*p < .05

^†p < .10

Models and Ns are identical to those in previous tables, except LDS and Jewish respondents are grouped with the “other religion” category due to small cell sizes in interactions.

^aConservative Protestant X Mainline Protestant interaction term significant at p < .10

^bConservative Protestant X Mainline Protestant interaction term significant at p < .05

^cConservative Protestant X Mainline Protestant interaction term significant at p < .01

^dConservative Protestant X Catholic interaction term significant at p < .01

^eConservative Protestant X Catholic interaction term significant at p < .05

^fConservative Protestant X No religion interaction term significant at p < .01

^gMainline Protestant X Black Protestant interaction term significant at p < .10

^hMainline Protestant X Black Protestant interaction term significant at p < .05

ⁱMainline Protestant X Catholic interaction term significant at p < .10

^jMainline Protestant X Catholic interaction term significant at p < .05

^kMainline Protestant X Catholic interaction term significant at p <. 01

^lMainline Protestant X Other religion interaction term significant at p < .10

^mMainline Protestant X Other religion interaction term significant at p < .05

ⁿBlack Protestant X No religion interaction term significant at p < .10

^oCatholic X No religion interaction term significant at p < .10

^pCatholic X No religion interaction term significant at p < .05

^qCatholic X Other religion interaction term significant at p < .10

^rNo religion X Other religion interaction term significant at p < .05