Social Correlates of Church Attendance in Three European Catholic Countries

Conway, Brian

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“…Where Greeley (2003) found high, stable rates of attendance, Conway (2013) (Requena 2005; see also Brenner [2011]). …”

Section: Western Europementioning

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Cross-National Trends in Religious Service Attendance: Table 1.

Brenner

2016

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The nature of religious change and the future of religion have been central questions of social science since its inception. But empirical research on this question has been quite American-centric, encouraged by the conventional wisdom that the United States is an outlier of religiosity in the developed world, and, more pragmatically, by the availability of survey data. The dramatic growth in the number and reach of cross-national surveys over the past two decades has offered a corrective. These data have allowed research on religious trends in the United States, Canada, and Europe, putting American trends into comparative relief. This research synthesis reviews the past quarter century of cross-national comparative survey research on religious behavior, focusing on religious service attendance as a commonly measured behavior that is arguably more equivalent across societies and cultures than other measures of religiosity. The lack of evidence for religious revival is highlighted, noting instead declining rates of attendance in the United States and Canada, and either declining rates or low "bottomed-out" stability in Western Europe, most of Eastern Europe, and Australia and New Zealand. Finally, countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia are discussed to the extent that research allows, before a call for future research-in these places in particular-is made in order to correct for the Western and Christian focus of much of the research on cross-national religious trends.

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“…Where Greeley (2003) found high, stable rates of attendance, Conway (2013) (Requena 2005; see also Brenner [2011]). …”

Section: Western Europementioning

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Cross-National Trends in Religious Service Attendance: Table 1.

Brenner

2016

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“…Moreover, there are wide inter-country variations among the respondents from these countries in two indicators of religiosity; the frequency of attendance to religious services and importance ascribed to God. (See Conway (2013) for correlates of church attendance in Catholic countries.) There is a similar trend in predominantly Muslim countries.…”

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Religion, Religiosity, and Corruption

Gökçekuş

Ekici

2020

Review of Religious Research

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High levels of corruption in a country could be detrimental to the overall well-being of the economy. Although legal enforcement mechanisms are in place for most countries, corruption still exists, even in the most developed countries. Researchers have tried to identify the correlates of corruption across different countries in the world. One major finding is that religious affiliation in a country tends to matter for the corruption level of that country. However, previous research has rarely focused explicitly on differentiating between religion and religiosity. In this study, we test if the level of devotion to religion (religiosity) is more important than the specific type of religious denomination. We use data from multiple countries over different time periods and experiment with different measures of ‘religiosity’. The empirical evidence indicates that religiosity, rather than religious affiliation, impacts corruption levels. The more religious a society is, the higher the corruption, regardless of religious affiliation.

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“…In 2013, even Diarmuid Martin, the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, was talking about ‘A Post-Catholic Ireland’ (Martin 2013). Writing in America: The National Catholic Review , Martin acknowledged declines in mass attendance and vocations, the effects of the clerical sexual abuse scandals, and increasing critiques of the Republic's Catholic education system (see also Conway 2013; Keenan 2012; Donnelly and Inglis 2010; Jakelic 2010; Foster 2007). He also noted the increased immigration that had accompanied the Celtic Tiger years, and how this had contributed to greater religious and ethnic diversity on the island.…”

Section: St Century Faith In Ireland: a Post-catholic Religious Marketmentioning

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A charismatic church in a post-Catholic Ireland: negotiating diversity at Abundant Life in Limerick City

Ganiel

2015

Irish Journal of Sociology

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This article analyses Abundant Life Christian Church in Limerick City, a multi-ethnic, Pentecostal/charismatic congregation in the Assemblies of God denomination. It provides insights about how religious groups are negotiating immigration and ethnic diversity and how charismatic expressions of Christianity are engaging in Ireland's post-Catholic public sphere. The study revealed remarkably harmonious relationships between native Irish and immigrants of diverse backgrounds, which were built in large part on a leadership model in which one ethnic group did not hold significantly more power than others. The study also found that people at Abundant Life seemed anxious to establish their legitimacy as a Christian church, a concern that was rooted in previous, and even current, experience of Ireland as a ‘Catholic country’. Congregants displayed varying degrees of openness towards Catholicism, but what was striking was how often they described their own faith in contrast to Catholicism. The institution that is the Catholic Church in Ireland cast a long shadow over Abundant Life congregants’ own experience of Christianity and continues to define Ireland's post-Catholic religious market.

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Social Correlates of Church Attendance in Three European Catholic Countries

Cited by 4 publications

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Cross-National Trends in Religious Service Attendance: Table 1.

Cross-National Trends in Religious Service Attendance: Table 1.

Religion, Religiosity, and Corruption

A charismatic church in a post-Catholic Ireland: negotiating diversity at Abundant Life in Limerick City

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