Summary

Working as a Christian minister years ago, Landon Schnabel noticed a paradox common to many U.S. churches: Men filled leadership roles, implying that religion is masculine and patriarchal, but many more women participated in services, Bible study and other activities. Now an associate professor of sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences, Schnabel learned that researchers have long interpreted this disparity as evidence that women are inherently more religious than men, and have treated that idea as a universal fact.

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