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| Tekijä: | Voas, D. |
| Otsikko: | The rise and fall of fuzzy fidelity in Europe |
| Lehti: | European sociological review
2009 : APR, VOL. 25:2, p. 155-168 |
| Asiasana: | sociology religion Europe |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | In debates on religious change in Europe, there have been two particularly controversial issues: the unity or diversity of the noted trends, and the significance of the large, neither religious nor totally unreligious, subpopulation. This study deals with these problems. Based on an analysis of the 1st wave of the European Social Survey (ESS), it is shown that each generation in every studied country is less religious than the last. Despite some minor differences in the speed of the decline, the magnitude of the fall in religiosity during the last century has been remarkably constant across the continent. In spite of the shifts in the prevalence of conventional Christian belief,..., residual involvement is remarkable. The term 'fuzzy fidelity' describes the casual loyalty to tradition. Religious change in the European countries follows a common trajectory with fuzzy fidelity rising and then falling over a very extended period. |
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