Reconstructing Religious Attendance in European Communist Countries

Kód výsledku v 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>

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Reconstructing Religious Attendance in European Communist Countries

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Reconstructing Religious Attendance in European Communist Countries

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

50401 - Sociology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA19-07748S" target="_blank" >GA19-07748S: Náboženství v komunistickém režimu: Pohled teorie racionální volby</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Review of Religious Research

ISSN

0034-673X

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

63

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

DE - Spolková republika Německo

Počet stran výsledku

17

Strana od-do

269-285

Kód UT WoS článku

000621729900001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85101650427