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Church and Religion in Contemporary Europe

Results from Empirical and Comparative Research

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  1. Gert Pickel
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  2. Olaf Müller
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  • Perspectives and Research of Religiousness in Europe

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-5
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  2. Introduction – The Comparative View on Religion and Religiosity

    • Gert Pickel, Olaf Müller
    Pages 7-12

  3. Why, at all, do we need Religion? Religion and Morality in Post-Communist Europe

    • Siniša Zrinščak, Krunoslav Nikodem
    Pages 13-24

  4. Religious Pluralism and Dimensions of Religiosity: Evidence from the Project Religious and Moral Pluralism (RAMP).

    • Tadeusz Doktόr
    Pages 25-34

  5. Religiosity in Europe and in the Two Germanies: The Persistence of a Special Case – as revealed by the European Social Survey

    • Heiner Meulemann
    Pages 35-48

  6. Religion in Finland and Russia in a Comparative Perspective

    • Kimmo Kääriäinen
    Pages 49-63

  7. Religiosity in Central and Eastern Europe: Results from the PCE 2000 Survey in Comparison

    • Olaf Müller
    Pages 65-88

  8. Secularization as a European Fate? – Results from the Church and Religion in an Enlarged Europe Project 2006

    • Gert Pickel
    Pages 89-122

  9. Religious Oddities: Explaining the Divergent Religious Markets of Poland and East Germany

    • Paul Froese, Steven Pfaff
    Pages 123-144

  10. Church-State Relations and the Vitality of Religion in European Comparison

    • Detlef Pollack, Gert Pickel
    Pages 145-166

  11. European Exceptionalism: Lazy Churches, Pluralism, Adherence and the Case of the Dutch Religious Cartel

    • Erik Sengers
    Pages 167-182

  12. Religion, Popular Piety, Patchwork Religion

    • Hermann Denz
    Pages 183-202

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 203-204
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About this book

During the last decades, the academic special field of sociology of religion, as well as the general public, has witnessed lively debates on the “new” role and significance of religion in modern societies. Not only perceptions such as a “clash of civilizations” or a “return of religion”, but also a renewed discussion on the relationship between religion and politics seem to stimulate the above mentioned questions. Meanwhile, a considerable quantity of empirical studies focused on the revitalization of religion or the prospects of a continuing secularization have been conducted. The topic of this publication deals with the results derived from a wide range of these studies, a large number of them focused on comparative analyses about the situation of churches and religion in Europe.

About the authors

Gert Pickel, Prof. Dr., Professor of Sociology of Religion at the Institute for Practical Theology, University of Leipzig.
Olaf Müller, research associate at the Cluster of Excellence „Religion and Politics in Pre-modern and Modern Cultures“ and at the Institute of Sociology at University of Münster.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Church and Religion in Contemporary Europe

  • Book Subtitle: Results from Empirical and Comparative Research

  • Editors: Gert Pickel, Olaf Müller

  • Series Title: Veröffentlichungen der Sektion Religionssoziologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-91989-8

  • Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Science (German Language)

  • Copyright Information: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften | Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, Wiesbaden 2009

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-531-16748-0Published: 15 September 2009

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-531-91989-8Published: 21 October 2009

  • Series ISSN: 2627-8537

  • Series E-ISSN: 2627-8545

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 204

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociology, general

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