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| Is Buddhism The Low Fertility Religion of Asia? | ||
| 作者 | Skirbekk, Vegard (著) ; Stonawski, Marcin (著) ; Fukuda, Setsuya (著) ; Hackett, Conrad (著) ; Muttarak, Raya (著) ; Spoorenberg, Thomas (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Demographic Research |
| 卷期 | v.32 |
| 出版日期 | 2015.01.06 |
| 頁次 | 28 |
| 出版者 | Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en |
| 出版地 | Rostock, Germany |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 關鍵詞 | Asia; Childbearing; Fertility; Religion |
| 摘要 | The influence of religion on demographic behaviors has been extensively studied mainly for Abrahamic religions. Although Buddhism is the world´s fourth largest religion and is dominant in several Asian nations experiencing very low fertility, the impact of Buddhism on childbearing has received comparatively little research attention. Objective: This paper draws upon a variety of data sources in different countries in Asia in order to test our hypothesis that Buddhism is related to low fertility. Methods: Religious differentials in terms of period fertility in three nations (India, Cambodia and Nepal) and cohort fertility in three case studies (Mongolia, Thailand and Japan) are analyzed. The analyses are divided into two parts: descriptive and multivariate analyses. Results: Our results suggest that Buddhist affiliation tends to be negatively or not associated with childbearing outcomes, controlling for education, region of residence, age and marital status. Although the results vary between the highly diverse contextual and institutional settings investigated, we find evidence that Buddhist affiliation or devotion is not related to elevated fertility across these very different cultural settings. Conclusions: Across the highly diverse cultural and developmental contexts under which the different strains of Buddhism dominate, the effect of Buddhism is consistently negatively or insignificantly related to fertility. These findings stand in contrast to studies of Abrahamic religions that tend to identify a positive link between religiosity and fertility. |
| 目次 | Introduction 2 Buddhist Religion and Childbearing 4 Data and Methods 7 Descriptive Overview of Buddhist Fertility in Asia 8 Case Studies of Fertility and Buddhism in Mongolia, Thailand, and Japan 9 Mongolia 10 Thailand 12 Japan 15 Discussion and Conclusions 18 Acknowledgements 21 References 22 |
| ISSN | 23637064 (E) |
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2015.32.1 |
| 點閱次數 | 1 |
| 建檔日期 | 2023.03.01 |
| 更新日期 | 2023.03.20 |
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