Secularization - Still Going Strong?: What Remains When Cross-sectional Differences Are Eliminated from a Longitudinal Analysis
The tendency of decreasing religiosity is explained by the theory of secularization through differentiation and pluralization. Using the ess 2002-2016, the impacts of both on church attendance and self-ascribed religiosity are tested, controlling for determinants of religiosity—that is, for belongin...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
[2020]
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Journal of religion in Europe
Année: 2019, Volume: 12, Numéro: 3, Pages: 231-259 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Laïcité
/ Irréligion
/ Étude longitudinale
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| RelBib Classification: | AA Sciences des religions AB Philosophie de la religion |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Cohort analysis
B longitudinal multi-level analysis B self-attributed religiosity B Pluralization B Church Attendance B Differentiation |
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| Résumé: | The tendency of decreasing religiosity is explained by the theory of secularization through differentiation and pluralization. Using the ess 2002-2016, the impacts of both on church attendance and self-ascribed religiosity are tested, controlling for determinants of religiosity—that is, for belonging (cohort and denomination) and choice (education, urban residence, marriage, parenthood, and employment)—with multi-level models separating between- from within-country effects. Without controls, time negatively affects religiosity: there is a secularization tendency. But controlling for cohort and denomination annihilates this effect and strongly reduces individual-level as well as country-level error variances. Effects of belonging are stronger than those of choice, cohort succession has a negative effect, and religiosity differs between denominations. Differentiation and pluralization have only a few effects between countries and only one within countries such that secularization theory is not confirmed. |
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| ISSN: | 1874-8929 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion in Europe
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18748929-01203001 |