Reconstructing Religious Attendance in European Communist Countries
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F44555601%3A13510%2F21%3A43896136" target="_blank" >RIV/44555601:13510/21:43896136 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13644-021-00448-z" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13644-021-00448-z</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13644-021-00448-z" target="_blank" >10.1007/s13644-021-00448-z</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Reconstructing Religious Attendance in European Communist Countries
Original language description
Background: The research on religion under communism suffers from a lack of quantitative data on religious attendance to complement the existing information about government policies and anecdotal data about the operation of religious organizations under communism. The available data are scarce and often unreliable. Purpose: This paper presents a method for reconstructing data on past religious attendance and presents a dataset that contains an estimate of religious attendance rates in seven European communist countries covering the period between the 1930s and the 1990s. Such data are needed to corroborate and complement the sources currently available. Methods: The reconstruction is based on retrospective questions in surveys conducted in the post-communist period, particularly the ISSP. The paper also verifies the internal consistency of the reconstructed attendance rates using different characteristics of survey respondents to predict their reported attendance. Further, it verifies external consistency against post-communist surveys (ISSP, EVS) and the data available from the communist period. Results: The dataset support existing literature and provide some new information about religiosity under communist rule. The reconstructed attendance rates appear internally consistent, and the responses regarding past religious attendance do not seem to be driven primarily by the respondents? present characteristics. The estimated past attendance rates are also consistent with other sources. Conclusions and Implications: The dataset provides additional data that allow an evaluation of the level and change of religious attendance, the effectiveness of communist anti-religious campaigns and secularization trends in the communist countries. Such data were not available before that were estimated in a consistent way across different countries and time periods. The method can also be used in other settings.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA19-07748S" target="_blank" >GA19-07748S: Religion under communist regime: A rational choice perspective</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Review of Religious Research
ISSN
0034-673X
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
63
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
17
Pages from-to
269-285
UT code for WoS article
000621729900001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85101650427