%0 Journal Article
%T Shifts in religiosity across cohorts in Europe: A multilevel and multidimensional analysis based on the European Values Study
%A Ferruccio Biolcati
%A Francesco Molteni
%J Social Compass
%@ 1461-7404
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0037768618772969
%X Religious change continues to be a controversial topic that involves both theoretical and methodological issues. As to the European context, the main dispute is between secularization and individualization theory, especially considering the ¡®believing without belonging¡¯ thesis. This article will tackle this dispute given these three choices: firstly, we assume that cohort replacement is the main driver of religious change; secondly, religious tradition has to be taken fully into account to explain religious change; thirdly, we consider religiosity as a complex phenomenon that requires a multidimensional approach. Results from a multilevel multiple responses model based on EVS (European Values Study) data show that practice is declining across cohorts in all the countries whereas trends for belief and self-definition diverge only for Eastern Orthodox countries. Depending on the interpretation, such exception seems supporting rather than undermining the ¡®believing without belonging¡¯ theory
%K Europe
%K individualization
%K multidimensional
%K multilevel
%K religiosity
%K secularization
%K Europe
%K individualisation
%K multidimensionnel
%K multiniveaux
%K religiosit¨¦
%K s¨¦cularisation
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0037768618772969