Religious Polarization in Europe

IF 2.4 1区哲学 0 RELIGION Sociology of Religion Pub Date : 2024-06-09 DOI:10.1093/socrel/srae017

Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme, David Voas, Kirstie Hewlett

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Abstract

We define two types of religious polarization and investigate the extent to which they are present across European countries, based on data from the 2008 to 2017 European Values Study and hierarchical linear modeling. The first type is polarization by religiosity, with declines in the middle ground between the actively religious and the nonreligious as secularization reaches an advanced stage. The second type is issue polarization, with the religious and secular taking different positions on a range of socio-political values, including social conservatism and ethnic nationalism. We find limited evidence of bimodality in the distribution of religiosity. We find more evidence, however, of issue polarization between the religious and secular in Europe, especially in social conservatism. Religious polarization should thus be understood as a multidimensional concept where one dimension may be more prevalent than others in society.

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欧洲的宗教两极分化

我们根据 2008 年至 2017 年《欧洲价值观研究》（European Values Study）的数据和分层线性模型，定义了两种类型的宗教两极化，并研究了它们在欧洲各国的存在程度。第一种类型是宗教信仰两极分化，随着世俗化进入高级阶段，积极信教者与不信教者之间的中间地带逐渐缩小。第二种类型是议题极化，宗教和非宗教在一系列社会政治价值观上采取不同的立场，包括社会保守主义和种族民族主义。我们发现，宗教信仰分布的双峰性证据有限。然而，我们发现更多的证据表明，欧洲的宗教和世俗之间在问题上存在两极分化，尤其是在社会保守主义方面。因此，宗教极化应被理解为一个多维度的概念，其中一个维度在社会中可能比其他维度更为普遍。

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Sociology of Religion Multiple-

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7.50

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6.50%

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期刊介绍： Sociology of Religion, the official journal of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, is published quarterly for the purpose of advancing scholarship in the sociological study of religion. The journal publishes original (not previously published) work of exceptional quality and interest without regard to substantive focus, theoretical orientation, or methodological approach. Although theoretically ambitious, empirically grounded articles are the core of what we publish, we also welcome agenda setting essays, comments on previously published works, critical reflections on the research act, and interventions into substantive areas or theoretical debates intended to push the field ahead. Sociology of Religion has published work by renowned scholars from Nancy Ammerman to Robert Wuthnow. Robert Bellah, Niklas Luhmann, Talcott Parsons, and Pitirim Sorokin all published in the pages of this journal. More recently, articles published in Sociology of Religion have won the ASA Religion Section’s Distinguished Article Award (Rhys Williams in 2000) and the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion’s Distinguished Article Award (Matthew Lawson in 2000 and Fred Kniss in 1998). Building on this legacy, Sociology of Religion aspires to be the premier English-language publication for sociological scholarship on religion and an essential source for agenda-setting work in the field.