The Future of Christianityin Europe课件.ppt

The Future of Christianity in Europe;What is secularisation (at the individual level)? ;The initial conversion is to fuzzy Christianity;Fuzzy Christians;Measuring fuzziness: Three aspects of religious involvement;Belief in what?;Active how?;What kind of affiliation?;A possible typology;European Social Survey 2002;Affiliation;Practice;Belief;As a starting point, distinguish three groups:;Actively religious;Privately religious;Unreligious;Religious composition of Britain (fairly typical of Europe);What about the other half of the population? ;Belief;Practice;Affiliation;Religious orientation;Subjective significance of religion;What is the dominant attitude towards religion?;What are Europeans?;Strong association between age (or birth cohort) and religiosity;No religion by age and sex (England and Wales, 2001 census) ;Major countries ;Cohort or age effects? ;Reasons to favour cohort explanation;General findings;;Greece;Italy;Switzerland;Germany;Sweden;Czech Republic;The logistic (or S-shaped) curve ;The trajectory of fuzzy Christianity;Greece, Italy, Germany, Sweden and the Czech Republic compared with a logistic model