This paper compares two aspects of the social reproduction of religion:
parent-to-child transmission, and religious homogamy. Analysis of a survey of
immigrants in France shows that for parent-to-child transmission, immigrant
status/generation is not the central variable — rather, variation is across
religions with Muslim families showing high continuity. Immigrant
status/generation does directly matter for partner choice. In Christian and
Muslim families alike, religious in-partnering significantly declines in the
second generation. In turn, the offspring of religiously non-homogamous families
is less religious. For Muslim immigrants this points to the possibility of a
non-trivial decline in religiosity in the third generation.
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