Generations of Decline: Religious Change in 20th-Century Britain.
This article analyzes the best available evidence from the major British social surveys to describe and explain the continuous decline of religion throughout the 20th century. This decline is overwhelmingly generational in nature rather than a product of particular periods such as World War II or th...
| Publicado en: | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (Wiley-Blackwell) Vol. 45; no. 4; pp. 567 - 585 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=23093182&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 23093182 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00218294 SSN jtl: Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (Wiley-Blackwell) issn: 00218294 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Dec2006 vid: 45 iid: 4 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell artinfo: ui: 23093182 10.1111/j.1468-5906.2006.00328.x ppf: 567 ppct: 18 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 307KB tig: atl: Generations of Decline: Religious Change in 20th-Century Britain. aug: au: CROCKETT, ALASDAIR VOAS, DAVID affil: Alasdair Crockett was Chief Research Officer at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, United Kingdom. He died in September 2006 following a long illness. David Voas is Simon Research Fellow at the Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research, University of Manchester, United Kingdom. E‐mail: su: British religions Intergenerational relations Belief & doubt Religion & culture Cultural transmission Religious life of immigrants Religion Twentieth century sug: subj: British religions Intergenerational relations Belief & doubt Religion & culture Cultural transmission Religious life of immigrants Religion Twentieth century ab: This article analyzes the best available evidence from the major British social surveys to describe and explain the continuous decline of religion throughout the 20th century. This decline is overwhelmingly generational in nature rather than a product of particular periods such as World War II or the 1960s. Measures of religious affiliation, regular attendance at worship, and religious belief show nearly identical rates of intergenerational decline. Decline has not been offset by any positive age effects in an aging society: Britons do not get more religious as they get older. The intergenerational decline follows clear patterns of transmission of parental religious characteristics to children. Two potential modulators of decline are identified and investigated: immigration of people who are more religious than the existing population and higher fertility rates among the religiously active population. Of these only the former appears of importance. The nonwhite ethnic minority immigrant population is far more religious than the white population; however, the rates of intergenerational decline (between immigrant parents and native-born children) are almost as high as for the white population, leading to an intergenerational convergence of levels of religiosity. Although ethnic minority populations tend to be more religious and have higher fertility rates, there is no differential fertility by religiosity among the population as a whole. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (Wiley-Blackwell) is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (Wiley-Blackwell) holder: Wiley-Blackwell dt: @attributes: year: 2006 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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