P Vermeer
Biographic Data
| ID | 15356 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Vermeer |
| GIVEN NAMES | P |
| FAMILY NAME | Vermeer |
| SIGNATURE | VERMEER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7693-2611 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Shaping Young Muslim Citizens: Exploring Parental Views on Islamic Religious Education in Relation to Citizenship Education in the Netherlands
This article examines parents’ expectations of Islamic Religious Education ( IRE ) in relation to Citizenship Education ( CE ) in Dutch primary Islamic schools. Using qualitative methods, five focus group discussions with Muslim parents were conducted. The findings show that parents view IRE primarily as a space for religious and moral formation that can contribute positively to CE under specific conditions, particularly when citizenship is frame…
The contested contribution of Islamic religious education to citizenship education: An analysis of Dutch primary school textbooks
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Studying the Political Attitudes of Dutch Evangelicals: Are They All Conservatives
Evangelicals are usually seen as a homogeneous subcultural group with conservative political beliefs. This paper challenges this idea by studying the political attitudes of different types of evangelicals. Using survey data from more than 1,100 Dutch evangelicals, it is shown that different types of evangelicals also hold different attitudes towards political issues like: the reduction of income differences, the freedom of speech, pro-life issues…
E Pluribus Unum? Constructing a Typology of Contemporary Dutch Evangelicals
Against the background of the assumed polymorphous character of evangelicalism as a trans-denominational movement, this article aims to construct a typology of Dutch evangelicals and, subsequently, to test whether this religious typology also manifests sociodemographic differences. Two research questions are addressed: Which types can be distinguished among contemporary Dutch evangelicals on the basis of their core religious convictions and relig…
Religion, ethnocentrism and islamophobia: The case of Dutch evangelicals
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The Relationship between Islamic Religious Education and Citizenship Education in Liberal Democracies
This article discusses how Islamic religious education (IRE) can complement citizenship education by nurturing shared values and norms.The article first discusses the ideal of transformative citizenship in the context of Western liberal democracies as the dynamic interplay of four core dimensions: identity, legal status, participation, and rights.Next, these dimensions of citizenship are linked to Islamic key concepts that can be interpreted as b…
Explanations for Individual Secularization: Exploring the Effects of Life Course Events on Religious Decline in the Netherlands Between 2009 and 2020
The process of secularization in Western societies, in terms of the decline of individual religiosity, is often explained by way of cohort and period effects. In addition, there are many studies that focus on micro-level life course events that are considered to change individual religiosity. In this article, we use excellent panel data for the years 2009 to 2020 to distinguish the effects of 10 life course events on individual religiosity from c…
Weaving webs of well-being: The ethics of navigating religious differences in Christian foster families with foster children of various backgrounds
This article analyzes ethical issues arising in transreligious foster care placements in relation to foster children's needs regarding religious socialization and identification. Applying Urban Walker's expressive-collaborative framework to 30 qualitative interviews with foster parents, foster children, parents, and professionals, we elaborate and apply a three-level reflection on Christian foster parents' ethics of care in everyday practice of f…
Introduction: Religion and Covid-19 Vaccinations in The Netherlands
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Religion and Covid-19 Vaccination Coverage in the Netherlands between August 2021 and February 2022
This article explores the possible relationship between religion and the COVID-19 vaccination coverage in the Netherlands by addressing the following research questions: (1) to what extent is religious affiliation a factor in the COVID-19 vaccination coverage in the Netherlands? and (2) to what extent has this possible effect of religious affiliation changed over time? Our analyses reveal a strong and persistent effect of the proportion of orthod…
The Power of Religious Beliefs: Re-Reading Max Weber’s Protestant Ethic
As part of NTT JTSR’s series on Key Texts, this article discusses Max Weber’s famous essay The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. In this essay Weber argues that certain religious developments in the West resulted in a specific, ascetic work ethic which, in turn, stimulated the rise of a capitalist economy. The present article summarizes Weber’s line of reasoning in relative detail and briefly explains why Weber’s essay is still of in…
Islamic Religious Education and Citizenship Education: Their Relationship According to Practitioners of Primary Islamic Religious Education in The Netherlands
This article discusses how practitioners of Islamic Religious Education (IRE) in Dutch primary schools look at the relationship between IRE and citizenship education (CE). To what extent do they believe it is possible and desirable for IRE to contribute to CE? What would an integration of IRE and CE look like, and where do they see potential tensions between IRE and CE? In two extensive focus group discussions, with identity coordinators and expe…
Church Growth in Times of Secularization: A Case Study of People Joining Evangelical Congregations in the Netherlands
Background Today the Dutch religious landscape is characterized by two opposite trends. On the one hand, there is a massive and dominant trend of religious disaffiliation which mostly affects the Roman Catholic Church and the mainline Protestant churches, while on the other hand the Netherlands also witnesses the emergence of several independent, evangelical congregations of near megachurch size. Purpose Against the background of these opposite t…
Religion and the Transmission of Covid-19 in The Netherlands
The aim of this study was to find out if the typical spread of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 in The Netherlands, with significantly higher levels in the Dutch Bible belt and the southern, traditionally Catholic provinces, is related to the specific religious composition of the country. To do this, government statistics regarding the level of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 per municipality were combined with statistics regarding church …
The Religious Gender Gap within Dutch Relationships: Explaining the Persistent Religious Gender Gap in the Netherlands Using a Multifactorial Approach
Like other Western countries, in the Netherlands women continue to demonstrate higher levels of religiosity than men. In this article, we set out to explain this Dutch religious gender gap regarding belief in God, prayer and church attendance. Using high quality survey data ( LISS 2015), a comprehensive model is built combining social and psychological differences between Dutch men and women. These gender differences are operationalized where the…
Religion and Inclusive Society: Attitudes towards the Poor among Muslim and Christian Students in Surabaya
This study explores attitudes towards the poor among Christian and Muslim secondary school students in Indonesia. Are there significant differences between Muslims and Christians with regard to these attitudes and, if any, how could they be explained? The authors argue that there is little reason to expect differences based on religious affiliation alone, because both Christianity and Islam pay special attention to poverty alleviation and economi…
Bonding or Bridging? Volunteering Among the Members of Six Thriving Evangelical Congregations in the Netherlands
The rise of conservative religion in the West threatens the enduring positive contribution of religion to civil society, if conservative churches, as often assumed, indeed generate more bonding than bridging social capital. Against this background, this study explores the civic engagement of evangelicals in the Netherlands. Two research questions are addressed: (1) To what extent are Dutch evangelicals more involved in religious than non-religiou…
Why Dutch Women are Still More Religious than Dutch Men: Explaining the Persistent Religious Gender Gap in the Netherlands Using a Multifactorial Approach
In many secular Western countries, women continue to demonstrate higher levels of religiosity than men. But why does this religious gender gap persist? In this research note, we set out to explain the religious gender gap in the Netherlands for three dimensions of religiosity: belief in God, frequency of prayer and frequency of church attendance. Using high quality national representative survey data from LISS (Longitudinal Internet Studies for t…
Committed Believers: Determinants of the Organizational Commitment of Dutch Evangelicals
This study tries to find out why certain congregations in the Netherlands have a more committed membership than other congregations and, thus, are less affected by processes of religious disaffiliation. To do this, data gathered among members of six evangelical megachurches together with data from a national probability sample are analyzed to address two questions. First, to what extent are Dutch evangelicals more committed to their religious org…
Comparing Political Attitudes of Evangelicals with the Attitudes of Mainline Christians and Non-Church Members in The Netherlands
Evangelicals are generally considered culturally conservative regarding issues like abortion or homosexuality and sometimes also economically conservative regarding issues like tax reduction. But does this image also apply to Dutch evangelicals who live in a secular environment in which they constitute only a tiny fraction of the number of church members? This article explores the political attitudes of Dutch evangelicals with the help of two res…
Why God Has Left the Netherlands: Explanations for the Decline of Institutional Christianity in the Netherlands Between 1966 and 2015
Why has the Netherlands witnessed such a strong process of secularization? This article examines this process very extensively. Based on modernization theory, it follows several social cultural developments in Dutch society over the last 50 years and distinguishes between effects on the individual level as well as on the level of society. We are able to do so because of rich data availability, derived from micro-level longitudinal surveys (God in…
Umbrellas of Conservative Belief: Explaining the Success of Evangelical Congregations in the Netherlands
Dutch society is characterized by a high degree of religious dis-affiliation and non-affiliation and most religious communities are facing hard times in the Netherlands. But there are also exceptions. Against the contemporary current of ongoing secularization, some religious communities seem to thrive like never before and even attract new members. But why is that? Why do some religious communities succeed in retaining and also attracting new mem…
Churches: Lasting Sources of Civic Engagement? Effects of Secularization and Educational Expansion on Non-religious Volunteering in the Netherlands, 1988 and 2006
During the last three decades Dutch church attendance rates dropped considerably, while the relative share of volunteers in non-religious organizations decreased at a slower rate. This is an unexpected development given the positive association between religious involvement and volunteering. In this article, we try to account for this development by addressing the following question: Why has a massive and ongoing decline of church attendance in t…
Church Growth and Appealing Sermons: A Case Study of a Dutch Megachurch
Contrary to the ongoing trend of secularisation in the Netherlands, some religious congregations have instead experienced exceptional growth, and are currently reaching megachurch proportions. This paper focuses on one such thriving Dutch congregation, called Doorbrekers (‘those who break through’), and sets out to account for its appeal and attractiveness by analysing sermons delivered by the pastors of Doorbrekers ; with the help of a topic lis…
Religion and Family Life: An Overview of Current Research and Suggestions for Future Research
The primary aim of this paper is to offer an overview of current research into the relationship between religion and family life and to offer suggestions for future research. In order to do this, the paper distinguishes between research in which religion is a dependent variable, labelled as socialization research, and research in which religion is an independent variable, referred to as research into family functioning. With regard to these areas…
Religious Socialization and Non-Religious Volunteering: A Dutch Panel Study
Despite the fact that churches are still important sources of social capital in the Netherlands, the ongoing secularization of Dutch society has as yet not resulted in a drop of non-religious volunteering. In order to account for this apparent paradox, panel data are used to test the hypothesis that non-religious volunteering is in part an aftereffect of the religious socialization today’s volunteers enjoyed as youths. The following research ques…
Religion and the Transmission of Covid-19 in The Netherlands
The aim of this study was to find out if the typical spread of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 in The Netherlands, with significantly higher levels in the Dutch Bible belt and the southern, traditionally Catholic provinces, is related to the specific religious composition of the country. To do this, government statistics regarding the level of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 per municipality were combined with statistics regarding church …
Why Dutch Women are Still More Religious than Dutch Men: Explaining the Persistent Religious Gender Gap in the Netherlands Using a Multifactorial Approach
In many secular Western countries, women continue to demonstrate higher levels of religiosity than men. But why does this religious gender gap persist? In this research note, we set out to explain the religious gender gap in the Netherlands for three dimensions of religiosity: belief in God, frequency of prayer and frequency of church attendance. Using high quality national representative survey data from LISS (Longitudinal Internet Studies for t…
Authoritative Parenting and the Transmission of Religion in the Netherlands: A Panel Study
This study was designed to explore the effect of authoritative parenting, over and above the effect of explicitly religious parenting practices, on the juvenile and adult church attendance of offspring. Data were collected as part of a panel study in which 474 Dutch respondents were questioned in 1983 as youths and in 2007 as adults. In 2007 the respondents retrospectively answered questions about how they were raised by their parents. Analyses r…
Why God Has Left the Netherlands: Explanations for the Decline of Institutional Christianity in the Netherlands Between 1966 and 2015
Why has the Netherlands witnessed such a strong process of secularization? This article examines this process very extensively. Based on modernization theory, it follows several social cultural developments in Dutch society over the last 50 years and distinguishes between effects on the individual level as well as on the level of society. We are able to do so because of rich data availability, derived from micro-level longitudinal surveys (God in…
Religion and Family Life: An Overview of Current Research and Suggestions for Future Research
The primary aim of this paper is to offer an overview of current research into the relationship between religion and family life and to offer suggestions for future research. In order to do this, the paper distinguishes between research in which religion is a dependent variable, labelled as socialization research, and research in which religion is an independent variable, referred to as research into family functioning. With regard to these areas…
Churches: Lasting Sources of Civic Engagement? Effects of Secularization and Educational Expansion on Non-religious Volunteering in the Netherlands, 1988 and 2006
During the last three decades Dutch church attendance rates dropped considerably, while the relative share of volunteers in non-religious organizations decreased at a slower rate. This is an unexpected development given the positive association between religious involvement and volunteering. In this article, we try to account for this development by addressing the following question: Why has a massive and ongoing decline of church attendance in t…
Church Growth in Times of Secularization: A Case Study of People Joining Evangelical Congregations in the Netherlands
Background Today the Dutch religious landscape is characterized by two opposite trends. On the one hand, there is a massive and dominant trend of religious disaffiliation which mostly affects the Roman Catholic Church and the mainline Protestant churches, while on the other hand the Netherlands also witnesses the emergence of several independent, evangelical congregations of near megachurch size. Purpose Against the background of these opposite t…
Comparing Political Attitudes of Evangelicals with the Attitudes of Mainline Christians and Non-Church Members in The Netherlands
Evangelicals are generally considered culturally conservative regarding issues like abortion or homosexuality and sometimes also economically conservative regarding issues like tax reduction. But does this image also apply to Dutch evangelicals who live in a secular environment in which they constitute only a tiny fraction of the number of church members? This article explores the political attitudes of Dutch evangelicals with the help of two res…
Weaving webs of well-being: The ethics of navigating religious differences in Christian foster families with foster children of various backgrounds
This article analyzes ethical issues arising in transreligious foster care placements in relation to foster children's needs regarding religious socialization and identification. Applying Urban Walker's expressive-collaborative framework to 30 qualitative interviews with foster parents, foster children, parents, and professionals, we elaborate and apply a three-level reflection on Christian foster parents' ethics of care in everyday practice of f…
Bonding or Bridging? Volunteering Among the Members of Six Thriving Evangelical Congregations in the Netherlands
The rise of conservative religion in the West threatens the enduring positive contribution of religion to civil society, if conservative churches, as often assumed, indeed generate more bonding than bridging social capital. Against this background, this study explores the civic engagement of evangelicals in the Netherlands. Two research questions are addressed: (1) To what extent are Dutch evangelicals more involved in religious than non-religiou…
Islamic Religious Education and Citizenship Education: Their Relationship According to Practitioners of Primary Islamic Religious Education in The Netherlands
This article discusses how practitioners of Islamic Religious Education (IRE) in Dutch primary schools look at the relationship between IRE and citizenship education (CE). To what extent do they believe it is possible and desirable for IRE to contribute to CE? What would an integration of IRE and CE look like, and where do they see potential tensions between IRE and CE? In two extensive focus group discussions, with identity coordinators and expe…
E Pluribus Unum? Constructing a Typology of Contemporary Dutch Evangelicals
Against the background of the assumed polymorphous character of evangelicalism as a trans-denominational movement, this article aims to construct a typology of Dutch evangelicals and, subsequently, to test whether this religious typology also manifests sociodemographic differences. Two research questions are addressed: Which types can be distinguished among contemporary Dutch evangelicals on the basis of their core religious convictions and relig…
Religion, ethnocentrism and islamophobia: The case of Dutch evangelicals
Contains fulltext : 314085.pdf (Publisher's version ) (Open Access
Explanations for Individual Secularization: Exploring the Effects of Life Course Events on Religious Decline in the Netherlands Between 2009 and 2020
The process of secularization in Western societies, in terms of the decline of individual religiosity, is often explained by way of cohort and period effects. In addition, there are many studies that focus on micro-level life course events that are considered to change individual religiosity. In this article, we use excellent panel data for the years 2009 to 2020 to distinguish the effects of 10 life course events on individual religiosity from c…
Learning Theodicy
This article focuses on the problem of theodicy as a subject-matter for religious education. The question is raised whether it is possible to gain comprehension of theodicy models and, if so, to what extent. Empirical research on the effects of a theodicy course, dealing with the retaliation model, the plan model and the compassion model, shows that it indeed is possible to 'learn' theodicy models. Furthermore, our results also show that students…
Ed Ucation for Coping With Suffering
Every human being will sooner or later suffer some sort of evil predicament. Suffering, therefore, is an integral part of life; it's a reality which cannot be denied. As a consequence, everybody sooner or later also has to cope with suffering by attributing some sort of meaning to his evil predicament. Given this fact, the question is raised whether an educational programme can contribute to a person's ability to cope with suffering from a religi…
Religious Conscio Usness of Dutch Youth
This article offers a survey of the religious consciousness of Dutch secondary school students. From an educational point of view, this survey is understood as a description of the actual, initial situation of the student population that the comtemporary religious educator faces. Against the background of this survey, the question is raised, therefore, what can still be a ligitimate, general goal of religious education in school given the fact th…
Students' Moral Consciousness Teleology, Deontologyand Pra Ctical Wisdom
This article explores the moral consciousness of Dutch secondary school students. It focuses on the question how teleological and deontological considerations function in processes of moral decision-making? Do young people especially refer to teleological considerations when asked to pass a moral judgment or to deontological considerations? Or do they refer to both? Analyses of the judgments passed by the students with regard to three bio-medical…
Moral Consciousness of Secondary School Students
This article explores the moral consciousness of Dutch secondary school students. On the basis of a typology of six moral values a measuring instrument is designed, which is used to inquire after the moral orientations of these students. Theoretically these orientations are distinguished along two dimensions of moral reasoning, teleology and deontology, and three categories of moral values relating to first-person, second-person and third-person …
Looking at the Relationship Between Religions. An Empirical Study Among Secondary School Students
This paper explores the interreligious orientations of Dutch secondary school students. On the basis of a typology of four interreligious orientations, i.e. exclusivism, inclusivism, pluralism and dialogical-pluralism, a measuring instrument was designed that was used to inquire into the extent to which the students agreed or disagreed with these orientations. The relationship between these interreligious orientations and other student characteri…
Comparing Religious and Moral Socialisation: Experiences of Dutch Youths
As part of a large-scale inquiry into the religious and moral orientations of Dutch secondary school students, they were questioned about their religious and moral socialisation at home. More specifically the students were asked how important their religious and moral socialisation is/was to their parents. On the basis of the data thus acquired this paper explores differences in the importance attached to religious and moral socialisation by chil…
Making Sense of Generation Y. The world view of 15- to 25-year-olds
Geloven in het publieke domein. Verkenning van een dubbele transformatie
Trends in Religious Affiliation: Some Reflections on the Research of Geert Driessen
Reflecting on Driessen's contribution to this volume, the author tries to probe trends in religious affiliation as described by Driessen, and to raise questions for further research. These religious trends are discussed mainly from the perspective of education and the social significance of religion. The former is of interest, the author argues, in view of the fact that all respondents are young parents of primary school children, while the latte…
Religion and education in Europe. Developments, contexts and debates
Europe: Secular or post-secular
222 Book Reviews / Journal of Empirical Th eology 22 (2009) 216-224 Ziebertz, H.-G. and Riegel, U. (eds.) (2008). Europe: secular or post-secular? Münster: LIT Verlag. ISBN 978-3-8258-1578-3. Th is volume arose from a meeting entitled Europe as a post-secular Society (EPOS), held at the University of Würzburg in 2004, where scholars of religion from various European countries presented papers on the future of religion in Europe. Th ese papers are…
Faith in schools? Autonomy, citizenship, and religious education in the liberal state
Book Reviews / Journal of Empirical Th eology 22 (2009) 103-116 113 MacMullen, I. (2007). Faith in schools? Autonomy, citizenship, and religious education in the liberal state . Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-13091-0. Should denominational or religiously affi liated schools receive public funding in a liberal democratic state? Th is is the core question MacMullen addresses in this book: a question he ends up by answering in…
Citizenship education in religious schools: An analysis of tolerance in Catholic schools from a virtue ethical point of view
The question explored in this article is whether religious schools can contribute to the formation of the civic virtues in pupils by means of citizenship education. It is commonly agreed that civic virtues are needed in pluriform Western societies to promote social cohesion and reduce hostile attitudes. However, some argue that religious schools cannot further this process: in such schools pupils do not learn to deal with people from other religi…
The impact of parental religiosity on parenting goals and parenting style: A Dutch perspective
Several studies, conducted mainly in the United States, have revealed that parental religiosity influences the way parents raise their children. Against this background, the current study explores if such an effect is also discernible in the Netherlands. Data were gathered as part of a longitudinal study, in which 356 Dutch parents answered questions about their religious beliefs and practices, their parenting goals and parenting style. Analyses …
Religion and youth
Belonging and Believing among Dutch Forty-Year-Olds: A Panel Study
This paper reports on a study of the relation between church membership and religious belief among a sample of Dutch forty-year-olds. First it describes developments in church membership between 1983 and 2007, using a longitudinal data set. This results in the identification of five groups: stable non-members, stable nominal members, stable core members, converts and apostates. Next the religious beliefs of these membership groups are studied fro…
Religious Socialization and Church Attendance in the Netherlands from 1983 to 2007: A Panel Study
The authors explore the effect of a religious upbringing on church attendance later in life. To this purpose, people who had been interviewed in 1983 as secondary students about their upbringing as well as other characteristics, were interviewed again in 2007 about the same topics. Comparisons between the 1983 and the 2007 data reveal that church attendance dropped significantly among these people during this period. Furthermore, it is shown that…
Religious Socialization and Non-Religious Volunteering: A Dutch Panel Study
Despite the fact that churches are still important sources of social capital in the Netherlands, the ongoing secularization of Dutch society has as yet not resulted in a drop of non-religious volunteering. In order to account for this apparent paradox, panel data are used to test the hypothesis that non-religious volunteering is in part an aftereffect of the religious socialization today’s volunteers enjoyed as youths. The following research ques…
‘Silent Citizenship Educators’ in Dutch Catholic Schools: Exploring Teachers’ Moral Beliefs About Citizenship in Relation to Their Conduct of Citizenship Education
In this article we adopt a virtue ethical approach to study teachers’ moral beliefs about citizenship and their relation to two kinds of teacher behaviour in citizenship education: (1) teachers’ modelling behaviour, and (2) the way they arrange moral classroom discussions. We believe that a virtue ethical approach would appeal especially to religious schools, which is why we conducted our study in Catholic primary schools. Two hunderd and three t…
Authoritative Parenting and the Transmission of Religion in the Netherlands: A Panel Study
This study was designed to explore the effect of authoritative parenting, over and above the effect of explicitly religious parenting practices, on the juvenile and adult church attendance of offspring. Data were collected as part of a panel study in which 474 Dutch respondents were questioned in 1983 as youths and in 2007 as adults. In 2007 the respondents retrospectively answered questions about how they were raised by their parents. Analyses r…
Understanding Religious Disaffiliation: Parental Values and Religious Transmission over Two Generations of Dutch Parents
Religious disaffiliation, a major phenomenon in the Netherlands, is predominantly a generational matter. Each successive birth cohort is less involved in institutional religion than the previous one. Parents do not seem to pass on a lasting religious commitment to their offspring, which might indicate an overall shift in parental values from conformity to autonomy. In this article we use panel data to test the assumption and to compare parenting …
Religion and Family Life: An Overview of Current Research and Suggestions for Future Research
The primary aim of this paper is to offer an overview of current research into the relationship between religion and family life and to offer suggestions for future research. In order to do this, the paper distinguishes between research in which religion is a dependent variable, labelled as socialization research, and research in which religion is an independent variable, referred to as research into family functioning. With regard to these areas…
Church Growth and Appealing Sermons: A Case Study of a Dutch Megachurch
Contrary to the ongoing trend of secularisation in the Netherlands, some religious congregations have instead experienced exceptional growth, and are currently reaching megachurch proportions. This paper focuses on one such thriving Dutch congregation, called Doorbrekers (‘those who break through’), and sets out to account for its appeal and attractiveness by analysing sermons delivered by the pastors of Doorbrekers ; with the help of a topic lis…
Churches: Lasting Sources of Civic Engagement? Effects of Secularization and Educational Expansion on Non-religious Volunteering in the Netherlands, 1988 and 2006
During the last three decades Dutch church attendance rates dropped considerably, while the relative share of volunteers in non-religious organizations decreased at a slower rate. This is an unexpected development given the positive association between religious involvement and volunteering. In this article, we try to account for this development by addressing the following question: Why has a massive and ongoing decline of church attendance in t…
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