Catholic Disaffiliation in Britain: A Quantitative Overview
This article presents a quantitative assessment of Catholic disaffiliates those who were brought up Catholic, but who now no longer identify as such in contemporary Britain. Using British Social Attitudes data, it seeks to: 1) gauge the overall extent of Catholic disaffiliation and its significanc...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Carfax Publ.
[2016]
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Journal of contemporary religion
Jahr: 2016, Band: 31, Heft: 2, Seiten: 181-197 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Großbritannien
/ Katholische Erziehung
/ Areligiosität
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| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
lapsation
B Secularisation B Britain B quantitative data B retention B Catholic disaffiliation |
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| Zusammenfassung: | This article presents a quantitative assessment of Catholic disaffiliates those who were brought up Catholic, but who now no longer identify as such in contemporary Britain. Using British Social Attitudes data, it seeks to: 1) gauge the overall extent of Catholic disaffiliation and its significance relative to the retention/disaffiliation rates of other major Christian groupings; 2) identify patterns in the changing rates of Catholic retention/disaffiliation over the course of the twentieth century; 3) analyse Catholic disaffiliation in terms of key demographic variables (sex and age); 4) compare the current religious beliefs and prayer practices of different groups of Catholic disaffiliates and retainees. As will be argued throughout this article, in-depth study of Catholic disaffiliates sheds important new light on the sociology of Catholicism in modern Britain. Furthermore, it contributes to ongoing discussions of secularisation, precisely as a case study of change over time within a significant religious minority. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-9419 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Journal of contemporary religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2016.1152664 |