Religion in Europe at the End of the Second Millenium
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Andrew M. Greeley
Anti-Church Attitudes
Anti-church Sentiment
Author_Andrew M. Greeley
belief systems analysis
birth
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Category=QR
Church's Sexual Teaching
Church’s Sexual Teaching
cohort
comparative sociology
Conor Ward
Data Sets
Devout Groups
empirical survey methods
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European religious change patterns
European Values Study
EVS Data
FAITH Scale
Identity Scale Scores
international
International Social Survey Program Module
International Social Survey Program Questionnaires
International Social Survey Program Research
International Social Survey Program Sample
International Social Survey Program Survey
Irish Score
ISSP
ISSP Country
ISSP Data
ISSP Study
Largest Significant Correlations
Northern Catholics
Northern Protestants
post-communist religious trends
program
religious demographics
secularization theory
social
Southern Catholics
survey
West Germany
Young Men
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- ISBN 9781138531772
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 02 Aug 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Most sociologists of religion describe a general decline in religious faith and practice in Europe over the last two centuries. The secularizing forces of the Enlightenment, science, industrialization, the influence of Freud and Marx, and urbanization are all felt to have diminished the power of the churches and demystified the human condition. In Andrew Greeley's view, such overarching theories and frameworks do not begin to accommodate a wide variety of contrasting and contrary social phenomena. Religion at the End of the Second Millenium, engages the complexities of contemporary Europe to present a nuanced picture of religious faith rising, declining, or remaining stable.While challenging the secularization model, Greeley's approach is not polemical. He examines belief in God and in life after death, belief in superstition and magic, convictions about the relations between church and state, attitudes toward religion and science, and the effect of religion on the everyday lives of people. Drawing upon statistical and empirical data spanning twenty years, Greeley shows that while religion has increased in some countries (most notably the former communist countries and especially Russia) in others it has declined (Britain, the Netherlands, and France). In some countries it is relatively unchanged (primarily the traditional Catholic countries), and in still others (some of the social democratic countries) it has both declined and increased. In terms of individuals, Greeley finds that religion becomes more important to people as they age. He observes that surveys showing less religion among the young ignore the possibility that the age correlation is a life cycle matter and not a sign of social change.Patently, religion in Europe changed enormously between the end of the first millenium and the end of the second. In Greeley's judgment, the change has been an improvement, not because superstition has been eliminated (it has not), but because freedom to exercise religious belief has replaced compulsion.
