Determinants of disaffiliation: an international study Brañas Garza, Pablo García-Muñoz, Teresa Neuman, Shoshana National aggregates Disaffiliation Europe Using a dataset of 15,000 subjects from 32 Western countries, the current study examines individuals who were raised in a certain religion and, at some stage of their lives, left it. Currently, they define their religious affiliation as ‘no religion’. A battery of explanatory variables (country-specific, personal attributes and marriage variables) was employed to test for determinants of this decision. It was found that the tendency of individuals to leave their religion—the most extreme symptom of secularization—is strongly correlated with their liberal beliefs and with parental and spousal religious characteristics. Moreover, country characteristics, as well as personal socio-demographic features seem to be much less relevant, except for the religious diversity of the country that has a positive effect on disaffiliation. 2014-06-30T07:56:32Z 2014-06-30T07:56:32Z 2013 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Brañas-Garza, P.; García-Muñoz, T.; Neuman, S. Determinants of disaffiliation: an international study. Religions, 4(1): 166-185 (2013). [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/32400] 2077-1444 http://hdl.handle.net/10481/32400 10.3390/rel4010166 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License MDPI