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" Secularization—Still Going Strong? What Remains When Cross-sectional Differences Are Eliminated from a Longitudinal Analysis "
Heiner Meulemann, Alexander W. Schmidt-Catran

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1073023
Doc. No	:	LA116652
Call No	:	‭10.1163/18748929-01203001‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Alexander W. Schmidt-Catran
	:	Heiner Meulemann
Title & Author	:	Secularization—Still Going Strong? What Remains When Cross-sectional Differences Are Eliminated from a Longitudinal Analysis [Article]\ Heiner Meulemann, Alexander W. Schmidt-Catran
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of Religion in Europe
Date	:	2020
Volume/ Issue Number	:	12/3
Page No	:	231–259
Abstract	:	The tendency of decreasing religiosity is explained by the theory of secularization through differentiation and pluralization. Using the ess 2002–2016, the impacts of both on church attendance and self-ascribed religiosity are tested, controlling for determinants of religiosity—that is, for belonging (cohort and denomination) and choice (education, urban residence, marriage, parenthood, and employment)—with multi-level models separating between- from within-country effects. Without controls, time negatively affects religiosity: there is a secularization tendency. But controlling for cohort and denomination annihilates this effect and strongly reduces individual-level as well as country-level error variances. Effects of belonging are stronger than those of choice, cohort succession has a negative effect, and religiosity differs between denominations. Differentiation and pluralization have only a few effects between countries and only one within countries such that secularization theory is not confirmed.
Descriptor	:	Anthropology of Religion
Descriptor	:	church attendance
Descriptor	:	cohort analysis
Descriptor	:	Comparative Religion Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	differentiation
Descriptor	:	History of Religion
Descriptor	:	longitudinal multi-level analysis
Descriptor	:	Middle East and Islamic Studies
Descriptor	:	pluralization
Descriptor	:	Religion Society
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	self-attributed religiosity
Descriptor	:	Social Sciences
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/18748929-01203001‬