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" Does Security Increase Secularity? Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey on the Relationship between Income and Religious Service Attendance "
Ingrid Storm

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1072993
Doc. No	:	LA116622
Call No	:	‭10.1163/18748929-01003004‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Ingrid Storm
Title & Author	:	Does Security Increase Secularity? Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey on the Relationship between Income and Religious Service Attendance [Article]\ Ingrid Storm
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of Religion in Europe
Date	:	2017
Volume/ Issue Number	:	10/3
Page No	:	328–349
Abstract	:	Material security has been associated with lower religious attendance both between and within countries and has been proposed as one of the mechanisms causing long term religious decline in economically developed countries. Using a British panel study, this article examines (a) whether change to household incomes can incite individual religious change and (b) whether religion can buffer against the stress of economic loss. The main trend in Britain is that of religious stability or decline, and income change does nothing to reverse this trend. Increases in household income are associated with religious disengagement, but income reduction has no effect on religious attendance. However, religious activity may still act as a ‘buffer’ by improving and maintaining life satisfaction in the face of economic loss.
Descriptor	:	economic insecurity
Descriptor	:	History of Religion
Descriptor	:	life satisfaction
Descriptor	:	panel data
Descriptor	:	Religion Society
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	secularisation
Descriptor	:	Social Sciences
Descriptor	:	stress buffering
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/18748929-01003004‬