Long-term religious developments in the Netherlands, <i>c.</i> 1750–2000

Rooden, Peter van

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“…Therefore, in the Netherlands fertility patterns not only differ by religious practice, but also nominally religious women are more likely to progress to higher parity compared with non-affiliated ones. These patterns may be related to the pronounced religious diversity in the Netherlands and the fact that religion was considered an important aspect of social identity, at least during the pillarization period (Knippenberg 1998 ; van Poppel 1985 ; van Rooden 2003 ).…”

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“…As part of the pillarization system, which prevailed from the end of the nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, members of each denomination, or unaffiliated people, belonged to separate social, educational and political institutions (van Poppel 1985 ). However, the pillarization system has dissolved since the 1960s, as secularization accelerated and the proportion of disaffiliated people has increased rapidly (Knippenberg 1998 ; van Rooden 2003 ). Today, Catholics constitute around 30 percent of the population in the Netherlands, while Protestants constitute about a fifth (Berghammer 2012 ).…”

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Religion and Fertility in Western Europe: Trends Across Cohorts in Britain, France and the Netherlands

Peri-Rotem

2016

Eur J Population

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The role of religion in explaining fertility differences is often overlooked in demographic studies, particularly in Western Europe, where there has been a substantial decline in institutional forms of religious adherence. The current study explores the changing relationships between religion and childbearing in Britain, France and the Netherlands. Using data from the Generations and Gender Programme and the British Household Panel Survey, religious differences in completed fertility and the transition to first birth are explored across cohorts of women. In addition, a longitudinal analysis is employed to examine the influence of religion on subsequent childbearing. Although the secularization paradigm assumes that the influence of religion on individual behavior will diminish over time, it is found that religious affiliation and practice continue to be important determinants of fertility and family formation patterns. However, there is some variation in the relationship between religion and fertility across countries; while in France and the Netherlands fertility gaps by religiosity are either consistent or increasing, in Britain, this gap appears to have narrowed over time. These findings suggest that fertility differences by religion also depend on the particular social context of religious institutions in each country.

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Religion and Fertility in Western Europe: Trends Across Cohorts in Britain, France and the Netherlands

Peri-Rotem

2016

Eur J Population

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“…To summarize, individual religiosity is frequently closely tied to other social identities including national identities (Davie 2000:3), ethnic identities (Scheepers, Gijsberts, and Hello 2002:257), gender identities (Heelas and Woodhead 2005:95), and class identities (van Rooden 2003:121). As Callum Brown (2001:8) points out, “what [once] made Britain Christian was the way in which Christianity infused public culture and was adopted by individuals, whether churchgoers or not, in forming their own identities.” If it no longer has this public “base of discursivity” it cannot have much chance of survival, unless it is associated with other more salient identities.…”

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Halfway to Heaven: Four Types of Fuzzy Fidelity in Europe

Storm

2009

Scientific Study of Religion

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People who are neither very religious nor specifically nonreligious are generally understudied despite comprising on average half the national population in most European countries. From its size alone, we should expect this group to hold some of the clues, not only to how religious change takes place in Europe, but also why. Using the Religious and Moral Pluralism (RAMP) survey from 10 European countries, four subtypes of "fuzzy fidelity" were identified through cluster analysis. These included both "believing without belonging" and "belonging without believing." Detailed analysis of each type show great national differences in the ways that religion is practiced and understood. A sizable minority of the Dutch population can be classified as "Believing without belonging," whereas Scandinavians are much more likely to belong without believing. The diversity of the religious landscape within fuzzy fidelity highlights the methodological issues involved in using single-scale measures for multidimensional phenomena.

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“…In Germany, where the Lutheran Church, the Reformed Church, and the Catholic Church had all been recognized as public churches, Protestants historically outnumbered Catholics and therefore it was classified as a historically Protestant nation in this study (Barrett 1982;Moltmann 1986;Anheier 1991). In the case of the Netherlands, the Reformed Church was the state church until 1795 under French occupation and the Protestant population had remained the dominant religion until recent years (Barrett 1982;van Rooden 2003).…”

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Religion and Civic Culture: A Cross‐National Study of Voluntary Association Membership

Lam¹

2006

Scientific Study of Religion

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This article explores how religion shapes civic cultures through a cross-national study of voluntary association membership. I adopt a multi-level approach to examine the influence of religion at both individual and country level. First, I hypothesize that Protestants are more likely than Catholics to hold voluntary association membership. Second, I hypothesize that Protestant nations have a higher overall membership rate compared to Catholic nations. Third, I investigate if secularization has reduced individual-level Catholic-Protestant differences in voluntary association membership within a nation. I test the hypotheses using hierarchical nonlinear models with individual-level and country-level data from 29 nations. The findings show that Protestants are more likely than Catholics to be members of voluntary associations, while there is no difference between Protestants and those who belong to "Other" or no religions. At the same time, Catholic nations have lower overall membership rates compared to Protestant nations. The results can be interpreted as a "double negative" Catholic effect. Finally, the effect of secularization on Catholic-Protestant differences is statistically nonsignificant.

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Long-term religious developments in the Netherlands, c. 1750–2000

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Religion and Fertility in Western Europe: Trends Across Cohorts in Britain, France and the Netherlands

Religion and Fertility in Western Europe: Trends Across Cohorts in Britain, France and the Netherlands

Halfway to Heaven: Four Types of Fuzzy Fidelity in Europe

Religion and Civic Culture: A Cross‐National Study of Voluntary Association Membership

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