Continuing the conversation on Canada: changing patterns of religious service attendance

Sherpa Romeo yellow journal. "This is the peer reviewed version of this article. It may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions".David Eagle's article on changing patterns of religious service attendance appeared in the March 2011 issue of Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. He presented a comprehensive analysis of three data sets that allow social scientists to estimate the rate of religious service attendance in Canada: Project Canada Survey (PCS), the General Social Survey (GSS), and the Canadian Survey of Giving, Volunteering, and Participating (GSGVP). Reginald Bibby initiated the PCS in 1975, 10 years before Statistics Canada began conducting the GSS in 1985, and 22 years before the GSGVP began in 1997. He comments on the Eagle article, cautions scholars to be mindful of important methodological differences across samples, and offers his own analysis of trends in religious service attendance.Ye

Why bother with organized religion?: a response to Joel Thiessen

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La religion à la carte au Québec : une analyse de tendances

Les tenants de la thèse de la sécularisation ont vu les formes traditionnelles de religion décliner devant la modernisation. D'autres observateurs, notamment Rodney STARK et William BAINBRIDGE, ont perçu la sécularisation comme un facteur stimulant l'innovation au moyen de laquelle de vieilles religions sont graduellement remplacées par de nouvelles. Les résultats d'enquêtes entre 1970 et 1980 suggèrent que pour les catholiques du Québec, ces deux explications présentent de sérieuses limites. Devant le changement social, l'Église catholique qui est bien établie, a fait preuve d'une élasticité considérable. En outre, les gens dont les parents sont catholiques ont manifesté peu d'intérêt à se tourner vers de nouvelles religions. Ce qui a changé avec le temps, c'est la propension des catholiques à choisir non pas de nouveaux groupes, mais de "nouveaux produits", optant de plus en plus pour des fragments religieux plutôt que pour un engagement qui englobe tous les aspects de la vie.Proponents of the secularization thesis have seen traditional forms of religion as experiencing decline in the face of modernization. Other observers, notably Rodney Stark and William Bainbridge, have viewed secularization as stimulating religious innovation, whereby old religions are gradually replaced by new ones. Survey findings from the 1970s and 1980s for Catholics in Quebec suggest that both of these explanations have serious limitations. In the face of social change, the well-established Roman Catholic Church has exhibited considerable resilience. Further, people with Catholic parents have shown little interest in turning elsewhere. With the passage of time, what has changed is the inclination of Catholics to choose not new groups but "new products," increasingly opting for religious fragments rather than life-embracing commitment.Los adeptos a las tesis de secularización han visto las formas tradicionales de religión como experimentando una pérdida de importancia frente a la modernización. Otros observadores, notablemente Rodney Stark y William Bainbridge consideran la aparición de la secularización como una innovación religiosa estimulante por la cual las viejas religiones son gradualmente remplazadas por otras nuevas. Investigaciones efectuadas por católicos entre los años 1970 y 1980 en Quebec sugieren que ambas explicaciones tienen serias limitaciones. En el frente del cambio social, la bien establecida Iglesia Católica Romana ha mostrado considerable elasticidad. Además, la gente con padres católicos han mostrado poco interés en volcarse hacia otro lado. Con el paso del tiempo, lo que ha cambiado es la inclinación de los católicos para elegir no nuevos grupos sino "nuevos productos", optando cada vez más por fragmentos religiosos en lugar de un compromiso de vida

Secular in the sacred: a study of evangelism as reflected in membership additions to Calgary evangelical churches, 1966-1970

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