This article analyzes the decline in religiosity in the Western World during the twentieth century by using long-run data on church attendance. It tests the secularization hypothesis, which argues that economic growth decreases religiosity, and the religion-market model, which considers that governmental interventions in religious affairs have an impact on religiosity. The results provide scant evidence for the secularization hypothesis. They however support the religion-market model by showing that the growth of the welfare state significantly diminished religiosity. Such findings therefore suggest that many individuals were historically observant because churches offered welfare services which were not provided by the State
This study examines the influence of religion on economic attitudes over time. To do this, it focuse...
This study tests the deregulation hypothesis of religious market theory in 26 European and Northern ...
The US is often taken to be a contrary case to the general decline of religion in the West. David Vo...
We deduce hypotheses from theories on religious change to explain changes in church attendance rates...
The nature of secularization is of enduring interest in the social science of religion. Numerous rec...
Economic growth has not led to a decline in religion despite past predictions that it would. Using a...
We deduce hypotheses from theories on religious change to explain changes in church attendance rates...
This article analyzes the best available evidence from the major British social surveys to describe ...
Contains fulltext : 90184.pdf (publisher's version ) (Closed access)This study tes...
Critics of religion, such as Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Nietzsche, have long made famo...
Critics of religion, such as Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Nietzsche, have long made famo...
This study examines the influence of religion on economic attitudes over time. To do this, it focuse...
Contains fulltext : 77570.pdf ( ) (Open Access)The ongoing fragmentation of religi...
The ongoing fragmentation of religious traditions and the trafficking of ideas in the past decades c...
This study examines the influence of religion on economic attitudes over time. To do this, it focuse...
This study examines the influence of religion on economic attitudes over time. To do this, it focuse...
This study tests the deregulation hypothesis of religious market theory in 26 European and Northern ...
The US is often taken to be a contrary case to the general decline of religion in the West. David Vo...
We deduce hypotheses from theories on religious change to explain changes in church attendance rates...
The nature of secularization is of enduring interest in the social science of religion. Numerous rec...
Economic growth has not led to a decline in religion despite past predictions that it would. Using a...
We deduce hypotheses from theories on religious change to explain changes in church attendance rates...
This article analyzes the best available evidence from the major British social surveys to describe ...
Contains fulltext : 90184.pdf (publisher's version ) (Closed access)This study tes...
Critics of religion, such as Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Nietzsche, have long made famo...
Critics of religion, such as Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Nietzsche, have long made famo...
This study examines the influence of religion on economic attitudes over time. To do this, it focuse...
Contains fulltext : 77570.pdf ( ) (Open Access)The ongoing fragmentation of religi...
The ongoing fragmentation of religious traditions and the trafficking of ideas in the past decades c...
This study examines the influence of religion on economic attitudes over time. To do this, it focuse...
This study examines the influence of religion on economic attitudes over time. To do this, it focuse...
This study tests the deregulation hypothesis of religious market theory in 26 European and Northern ...
The US is often taken to be a contrary case to the general decline of religion in the West. David Vo...