Supernatural sex differences

I was kind of surprised that more males than females identify as Catholic. I suspect there's significant overlap between Catholic males and theologically conservative males.

a greater proportion of males identify as catholic. the sex ratio among catholics stills favors females, with males being 46%.

What is a theological conservative? I have no idea how I'd respond if someone asked me that.

What is a theological conservative? I have no idea how I'd respond if someone asked me that.

they didn't specify. they just asked if people define themselves as such. if you weren't a heretical mormon you might be aware that self-conscious theological conservatives within protestantism are usually aware that they are theological conservatives ;-) (the whole conservative vs. modernism controversy, etc.) usually ideas such as biblical inerrancy, etc., as well as the literality of biblical events and such are bracketed into the concept.

btw, if you read the survey (i recommend people do), 27.3% of evangelicals, 14.5% of mainliners and 21% of catholics defien themselves as theologically conservative....

First, I gotta reiterate my distrust in all such surveys, given that they're usually conducted by telephone and thus miss many cell-phone users, call screeners, etc.

It's striking that political polls usually show women as more liberal than men, but that's reversed "theologically" here. It also seems anomalous that more women than men are "bible believing" and "born again", as nearly all religious-right types would claim those labels. (And trying to make sense of the 4 mutually-exclusive flavors of god listed here baffles me entirely.)

Why is it that "mainline" is the only category to receive identical responses from both genders?

If blacks are about 13% of the overall US population, does that mean that more than half of them (mostly men) have left "Black Prot." churches?

The largest gender discrepancies are that many more women than men are in "Black Prot." churches, believe in a benevolent god, eschew atheism, and have had psychic experiences. An odd profile, but fortunately nowhere near enough to shake my long-standing admiration for the feminine in general.

I'd say that Bible-believer and Born Again sound as more fanatic categories than merely theologically conservative, that actually sounds more erudite. I f I'm not wrong, US President, G.W. Bush himself is (or was claimed to be) Born Again, while I would not expect him to be theologically anything, really.

I noted at my blog, but this seems quite different from the Pew self-identification survey. There, for instance, we had 1.3% self-identifying as Jewish while in the above we have 2.5%. In the Pew study we had about 26% identifying as Catholic while the above is about 21%. Now different years accounts for some of that. But those are some pretty big differences.

The best study on self-identification is, I believe, the one posted at SUNY which was quite extensive. Once again there are big differences in the dates conducted. The SUNY study was 2001 and I believe an other one is scheduled for 2011. They have Catholics self-identifying at 24.5%. I'm willing to believe that the sex scandals the Catholic Church faces dropped their adherents somewhat. But that much? I'd be surprised.

The SUNY study also has Jewish self-identification at 1.3%.