The paper “Religious Involvement and US Adult Mortality” [Hummer, Rogers, Nam, Ellison] concludes that there is “a seven-year difference in life expectancy at age 20 between those who never attend and those who attend more than once a week.”
Now, I’m skeptical of this claim, but it’s still a bit shocking.
The paper “Religious Involvement and US Adult Mortality” [Hummer, Rogers, Nam, Ellison] concludes that there is “a seven-year difference in life expectancy at age 20 between those who never attend and those who attend more than once a week.”
Now, I’m skeptical of this claim, but it’s still a bit shocking.
-for ease of other readers, the difference is in favour of the religious.