基于臺灣社會變遷調查數據(1999-2009),本文描述并分析了我國臺灣地區宗教信仰在父母與子女間的代際傳遞模式,并以此為出發點來討論基督教傳統之外宗教流動的模式與邏輯。本文有四點主要發現:首先,信仰的代際傳遞存在著明顯的性別差異和宗教(教派)差異。整體而言,母親對子女的信仰選擇影響較大。但對基督徒家庭而言,父親對子女的影響更大。當父母信仰相同時,該信仰的傳遞性顯著增強。其次,不同宗教的傳遞能力存在顯著差異。道教的傳遞能力更強,這與西方理論對于弱組織性宗教傳遞率低的預期相悖。再次,不同宗教之間的距離影響著子輩信徒的流動模式。基督教與其他宗教之間的距離最大,而無宗教信仰與其他宗教間的距離最小。最后,臺灣地區的社會變遷歷史造就了不同信仰在時期、世代和年齡分布上的明顯差異。

This article describes and analyzes the patterns of religious transmission between parents and children in Taiwan.It discusses the logic and trend of religious mobility beyond Christianity.Firstly,gender and affiliation strongly shape the trajectory of religious transmission.Generally,mothers have stronger influence on children’s religious retainment.Yet in Christian families,such influence is not as salient as fathers’.Secondly,different religious affiliations are associated with divergent transmission capacities.Unlike the low prospect of religious transmission for weakly organized religions depicted by western theories,this paper argues that Taoism has greater transmission capacity than others.Thirdly,distance between religions has an identifiable effect on the religious mobility of the next generation.Christianity shows the largest distance from the others,whereas non-religiousness shows the smallest distance.Fourthly,social and historical transitions of the Taiwanese society forge religions’characteristics in period,cohort,and age distribution.