Does Security Increase Secularity? Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey on the Relationship between Income and Religious Service Attendance

Material security has been associated with lower religious attendance both between and within countries and has been proposed as one of the mechanisms causing long term religious decline in economically developed countries. Using a British panel study, this article examines (a) whether change to hou...

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Auteur principal: Storm, Ingrid (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Brill 2017
Dans: Journal of religion in Europe
Année: 2017, Volume: 10, Numéro: 3, Pages: 328-349
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Großbritannien / Fréquentation des églises / Einkommenssicherung / Laïcité
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophie de la religion
AD Sociologie des religions
CB Spiritualité chrétienne
KBF Îles britanniques
Sujets non-standardisés:B economic insecurity secularisation stress buffering life satisfaction panel data
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Résumé:Material security has been associated with lower religious attendance both between and within countries and has been proposed as one of the mechanisms causing long term religious decline in economically developed countries. Using a British panel study, this article examines (a) whether change to household incomes can incite individual religious change and (b) whether religion can buffer against the stress of economic loss.
ISSN:1874-8929
Contient:In: Journal of religion in Europe
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/18748929-01003004