Is Secularization a Pervasive Trend in Europe?

IF 0.4 0 RELIGION Journal of Religion in Europe Pub Date : 2023-08-28 DOI:10.1163/18748929-bja10089
H. Meulemann, Alexander W. Schmidt-Catran
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Between 2002 and 2016, church attendance and self-attributed religiosity declines linearly, if all countries included in the European Social Survey are taken together. This analysis differentiates within Europe between two ideological and three denominational divides. Two questions are examined. First, is secularization pervasive across these groups? Second, how pervasive does secularization remain as a macro-level trend, when cohort membership and other individual-level qualities are controlled for? We find that the trend in secularization is well-explained by cohort succession in Western as well as in Catholic and Protestant countries. In Eastern Orthodox countries, however, an increase in religiosity is observed, which cannot be explained by individual-level properties. We speculate that it is triggered by a coalition of national churches and political elites.
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世俗化是欧洲的普遍趋势吗?
如果把欧洲社会调查中包括的所有国家加在一起,2002年至2016年期间,教堂出勤率和自我归属的宗教虔诚度呈线性下降。这种分析区分了欧洲内部的两种意识形态和三种教派分歧。考察了两个问题。首先,世俗化在这些群体中普遍存在吗?其次,当群体成员和其他个人层面的品质受到控制时,世俗化作为一种宏观趋势仍有多普遍?我们发现世俗化的趋势可以很好地解释为西方以及天主教和新教国家的世代继承。然而,在东正教国家,人们的宗教信仰有所增加,这不能用个人层面的属性来解释。我们推测,这是由国家教会和政治精英的联合引发的。
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期刊介绍: The peer-reviewed Journal of Religion in Europe (JRE) provides a forum for multi-disciplinary research into the complex dynamics of religious discourses and practices in Europe, both historically and contemporary. The Journal’s underlying idea is that religion in Europe is characterized by a variety of pluralisms. There is a pluralism of religious communities that actively engage with one another; there exists a pluralism of societal systems, such as nation, law, politics, economy, science, and art, all of them interacting with religious systems; finally, in a pluralism of scholarly discourses religious studies, legal studies, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology are addressing the religious dynamics involved.
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