What the world believes
Subtitle: analyses and commentary on the Religion Monitor 2008
By: Bertelsmann Stiftung, ed. ; [editor on behalf of the Bertelsmann Stiftung, Martin Rieger ; translation, Barbara Serfozo]
Contributors: Bertelsmann Stiftung (Gütersloh, Germany)
Publisher: Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Gütersloh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 751
ISBN-13: 9783892049890
Subjects: Public opinion; Statistics; Religiousness; Religionsmonitor 2008
Work titles: Woran glaubt die Welt? English
Notes: Col. map on front endpapers.

Accompanying CD-ROM contains primary analyses and method reports.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface  -- Liz Mohn; title: Secularization, privatization, or resacralization?  -- Martin Rieger; title: Religion Monitor 2008 : structuring principles, operational constructs, interpretive strategies  -- Stefan Huber; title: The religious field between globalization and regionalization : comparative perspectives  -- Stefan Huber, Volkhard Krech; title: The churches in western Germany : an asymmetrical religious pluralism  -- Karl Gabriel; title: The state of religion and religiosity in eastern Germany : social-scientific and theological interpretations  -- Matthias Petzoldt; title: The stable third : non-religiosity in Germany  -- Monika Wohlrab-Sahr; title: Religious communication : the consequences of a qualitative study for the sociology of religion  -- Armin Nassehi; title: Tradition or charisma? : religiosity in Poland  -- Beata Zarzycka; title: Spanish religiosity : an interpretative reading of the Religion Monitor results for Spain  -- José Casanova; title: "Fourteen kilometers from Europe" : Islam and globalization in Morocco  -- Sonja Hegasy; title: The omnipresence of the religious : religiosity in Nigeria  -- Klaus Hock; title: On the contemporary development of religion(s) in India  -- Michael von Brück; title: The religious situation in the United States  -- Hans Joas; title: Spiritual dynamics? : a comparison of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland  -- Paul M. Zulehner; title: Religiosity in "Laicist" states in Europe : France and Turkey  -- Matthias Koenig; title: Churchliness, religiosity, and spirituality : western and eastern European societies in times of religious diversity  -- Olaf Müller, Detlef Pollack; title: Varieties of religious commitment in Great Britain and Australia  -- David Voas; title: The experience of divine presence : religious culture in Brazil, the United States, and western Europe  -- Franz Höllinger; title: Latin America : the dynamics of the religious field  -- Heinrich Schäfer; title: The religiosity profile of European Catholicism  -- Alfred Dubach; title: Religiosity with a Protestant profile  -- Petra-Angela Ahrens, Claudia Schulz, Gerhard Wegner; title: The Pentecostal movement : social transformation and religious habitus  -- Heinrich Schäfer; title: What do Muslims believe?  -- Peter Heine, Riem Spielhaus; title: Religiosity and spirituality among young adults  -- Anton A. Bucher; title: The older the more devout? : religiosity in the twilight years  -- Michael N. Ebertz; title: On opening the black box : religious determinants of the political relevance of religiosity  -- Stefan Huber; title: Secularization or the revival of religion? : worldviews in 22 societies : findings and suggestions of a cross-sectional survey  -- Heiner Meulemann; title: Popular spirituality, or, Where is Hape Kerkeling? -- Hubert Knoblauch, Andreas Graff.