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Europe’s religious landscape is changing: The Christian share of the population is declining while the religiously unaffiliated population is increasing. In addition, Muslim populations in Western European countries continue to grow in both absolute and percentage terms due to immigration, relatively high fertility rates, and a relatively young population. Jewish populations, meanwhile, appear to be […]
The wide collection of cross-national Pew Research Center surveys analyzed in this report on age gaps in religious commitment can also be used to look at the ways religious observance varies among all adults – defined as people ages 18 and older – in different parts of the world. The four standard measures of religious […]
L’Europe de l’Ouest, berceau du protestantisme et cœur du catholicisme durant la plus grande partie de son histoire, est maintenant l’une des régions les moins religieuses dans le monde. Bien que la vaste majorité des adultes soient baptisés, nombre d’entre eux ne se décrivent pas comme étant chrétiens. Certains disent s’être peu à peu éloignés […]
The comments in the following section are a sharp contrast to the utopian visions of equity and advancement described above. Whereas some see the future of the internet as a great equalizer, others warn that technology can just as easily be used for control and exploitation. Inequality on the rise: The growing divide between haves […]
Although demographic indicators – including race and ethnicity, age, gender, and education – were not used as factors to create the typology groups, there are clear patterns across the seven groups. The religious typology groups roughly move from oldest to youngest when going from the most to least religious. Sunday Stalwarts and God-and-Country Believers tend […]
WASZYNGTON (29 października 2018 r.) – Żelazna kurtyna, która niegdyś dzieliła Europę, dawno odeszła w niepamięć. Jednak obecnie kontynent jest podzielony z uwagi na trudne do zaakceptowania różnice w postawach dotyczących religii, mniejszości i kwestii społecznych, takich jak małżeństwa homoseksualne czy legalna aborcja. W porównaniu do Europy Zachodniej mniejsza liczba mieszkańców Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej przyjęłaby muzułmanów lub żydów jako członków swojej rodziny lub sąsiadów, poparłaby legalizację małżeństw gejów i lesbijek czy rozszerzyłaby definicję […]