Religion in a Secularizing Society: The Europeans' Religion at the End of the 20th CenturyLoek Halman, Ole Riis BRILL, 2003 - 230 pages The cross-national analyses of Europe s patterns of religious and moral orientations presented in this book are all based on the 1990 European Values Study survey data and some use both 1981 and 1990 data. Use is also made of more recent data gathered in 1995/1997 within the framework of the World Values Study, directed by Ron Inglehart, as well as data from a recent pilot survey in Japan. The contributions in this book are not written within a common theoretical framework, but from different theoretical perspectives and scientific backgrounds and interests. However, a majority of the chapters focus on the Catholic and Protestant divide in Europe. All in all, the contributions in this book show (parts) of the religious and moral culture in contemporary secularizing societies. |
Contents
Some preliminary observations | 6 |
Plan of the book | 14 |
Chapter Two Religion and the spirit of capitalism | 22 |
Chapter Three Differential patterns of secularization | 48 |
Chapter Four Religion and the Family | 76 |
Results | 83 |
Conclusions | 89 |
Theoretical considerations | 95 |
Chapter Seven Religion and social capital revisited | 162 |
Longitudinal changes in the religious and political | 169 |
Results | 179 |
Chapter Eight Globalization and patterns of religious belief | 185 |
Measuring structural globalization | 192 |
Chapter Nine Japanese religiosity and morals | 205 |
Confidence in religion | 211 |
Asian values | 219 |
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