Believing and Belonging in Europe: Cross-National Comparisons of Longitudinal Trends (1981-2007) and Determinants

Reitsma, J.; Pelzer, Ben; Schilderman, Hans; Scheepers, P.L.H.

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“…2008; but see Reitsma et al. 2012), remained stable in the United States (Hirschman 2004) and Asian and Middle Eastern countries (Pew Research Center 2015), and even increased in ex‐Soviet countries (Froese and Pfaff 2005). Scientific knowledge has clearly increased in all those regions during the last century.…”

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Effects of Academic Degree and Discipline on Religious and Evolutionary Views in Chile and Colombia

Marín¹,

García-Merchán²,

Arbeláez-Moreno³

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Relationships between degree/area of academic formation and religious and Darwinian views are controversial. This study aimed to compare the religious beliefs and acceptance of Darwinian evolution between two contrasting South American scientific communities (Chile and Colombia), accounting for different degrees and areas of academic formation. In 2018, 115 last year bachelor students (surveyed as freshmen in 2014 for a previous study) from Chile, and 283 first/last year bachelor students, graduate students, and professors from Colombia, all belonging to biology, chemistry, or physics, were surveyed. Chilean students/faculty were significantly more agnostic/atheist, more accepting of Darwinian evolution, and less creationist than their Colombian counterparts. Academic degree and area differently affected these views in both countries, as only in Chile there was a clear tendency among biologists and physicists with higher degrees to hold less religious and creationist views. Marked differences between the history, socioeconomic contexts, and especially in high school and university curricula of both countries might explain these results.

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Effects of Academic Degree and Discipline on Religious and Evolutionary Views in Chile and Colombia

Marín¹,

García-Merchán²,

Arbeláez-Moreno³

et al. 2020

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“…Some studies suggest that to analyse the changes in secularization it is important to explore religious differences in the birth cohorts (Voas andChaves 2016: 1548;Kaufmann et al 2012;Zrinščak 2004;Ecklund et al 2008;Gautiert 1997;Reistma et al 2012;Molteni 2017). In my research I focused on the professors as they have normally completed all the stages in their careers, their biography is longer, accompanying important historical changes in the countries.…”

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Trajectories of (Non)Belief in the Scientific Community: The Case of Polish and Ukrainian Natural Scientists

Rogińska

2019

Review of Religious Research

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The article contributes to the discussion on the secularizing impact of science in modern societies. The starting point of the research is sociological data that shows lower religiosity of scientific communities in comparison to the general population in various countries. This might indicate that science does exert a secularizing force on modern ideologies. The explanatory hypotheses of this phenomenon are, however, ambiguous and predominantly concern Western countries. Based on 100 in-depth interviews with physicists and biologists from Central and Eastern Europe (Poland and Ukraine), it demonstrates the crucial role of cultural and historical context in the formulation of the (un)faith of the scientists. The scientific knowledge and participation in science as a social institution is more complementary than decisive in these processes, moreover, these factors play different roles in biographical trajectories of the Polish and Ukrainian natural scientists.

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“…From an empirical perspective, there is every reason to assume that religious commitment does not always imply fixed and lasting combinations of belonging and believing. Quite on the contrary comparative research with representative data from 1981 to 2007 in 42 European countries has clarified strongly varying national combinations of believing in terms of religious self-definition and belonging in terms of church participation (Reitsma et al 2014;Schilderman 2014). Also, at the individual level persons may display variations in their religious commitment.…”

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Exploring Single and Multiple Religious Belonging

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This contribution studies the notion of single and multiple religious belonging in a sample of 265 Dutch respondents. We will first focus on modalities of religious belonging and subsequently compare those who claim to draw from just one religion (the monoreligious) with those who indicate that they combine elements from different religious traditions (the multireligious) in terms of their intensities and styles of belonging, loyalty and mobility, and motivations for belonging. In general, multireligious respondents are characterized by their larger flexibility in religious matters as they tend to focus on similarities and common elements in different religions, and less on boundaries between them. By being loyal to themselves in the first place, they feel free to adopt and to leave behind religious beliefs and communities. Emotional and institutional bonds for each religion appear to be less strong than for monoreligious individuals in relation to their single religion.

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Believing and Belonging in Europe: Cross-National Comparisons of Longitudinal Trends (1981-2007) and Determinants

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Effects of Academic Degree and Discipline on Religious and Evolutionary Views in Chile and Colombia

Effects of Academic Degree and Discipline on Religious and Evolutionary Views in Chile and Colombia

Trajectories of (Non)Belief in the Scientific Community: The Case of Polish and Ukrainian Natural Scientists

Exploring Single and Multiple Religious Belonging

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