Reginald W Bibby
Biographic Data
| ID | 257458 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Reginald W Bibby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Reginald W |
| FAMILY NAME | Bibby |
| SIGNATURE | BIBBY R W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lethbridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 121 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Millennial Mosaic: How Pluralism and Choice Are Shaping Canadian Youth and the Future of Canada
The bottom line: Millennials are looking good. There’s a lot of consternation about the Millennial generation--Canada’s youngest adults born since the mid-1980s and now reaching their thirties. But the speculation has not been accompanied by sound and comprehensive information--until now. Highly respected sociologist and veteran trend-tracker Reginald Bibby teams up with two GenX colleagues, Joel Thiessen and Monetta Bailey, to provide an up-to-d…
Resilient Gods: Being Pro-Religious, Low Religious, or No Religious in Canada
Are Canadians becoming less religious? After playing a central role in our lives for nearly a century, religion did seem to be losing its salience in Canada. Many observers saw this trend as inevitable, reflecting secularization patterns seen elsewhere in the Western world. But there is more to the story. Reginald Bibby’s Resilient Gods takes an in-depth look at the religious landscape in Canada today. Pulling together extensive data, he finds th…
Life after Death: Data and Reflections on the Last Information Gap: A Research Note
This paper examines beliefs and experiential claims concerning life after death provided by some 5,000 people in Canada, the United States, and Britain in the spring of 2014. The surveys show that large numbers of people continue to believe life continues after death. Beyond belief, many maintain that individuals who have died are following what is taking place in their lives and continuing to be in contact. Such claims raise important questions …
The Future as an Allusion: Using Social and Personal Forecasts to Uncover Explicit and Implicit Religion
The author’s research into attempts to anticipate the future has found that three dominant frameworks or what Charles Glock and Thomas Piazza have called “reality structures” are apparent. The first and second reality structures involve different degrees of determinism, and typically are found among scientists and other futurists who, of necessity, focus on collective rather than individual futures. By definition, their assumptions about the futu…
What the Polls Do Show: Toward Enhanced Survey Readings of Religion in Canada
Depuis près de vingt ans, les résultats obtenus par les sondages visant les activités religieuses et les croyances ont semés beaucoup de confusion sur leur passage, particulièrement du fait que ces derniers, présentés par des chercheurs académiques et des firmes de sondage privées, différaient souvent de ceux publiés par Statistiques Canada. Les auteurs se sont penchés sur quatre sondages nationaux de type omnibus tenus en 2012 pour déterminer à …
Reflections on the 36th Denton Conference on Implicit Religion
The 36th Denton Conference on Implicit Religion was held at Denton Hall in Ilkley, West Yorkshire from Friday evening May 10th through Sunday noon May 12th, 2013. The gathering consisted of 32 registrants and 18 paper presentations. By now, the concept of “implicit religion” has become widely known and used, in large part due to the efforts of Edward Bailey, who coined the term in 1968. Now, 45 years later, scholars routinely reflect on the conce…
Why Bother with Organized Religion? A Response to Joel Thiessen
Continuing the Conversation on Canada: Changing Patterns of Religious Service Attendance
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). Regin…
Canada’s Dataless Debate About Religion: The Pre-carious Role of Research in Identifying Implicit and Explicit Religion
Scholars interested in the study of implicit religion often appear to work from the assumption that traditional forms of organized religion have become less pervasive, but that less visible and important religious expressions nonetheless persist. The argument has been particularly pertinent when observers have tried to understand what happens to religion in settings where secularization seems apparent. However, a somewhat different pattern also w…
The perils of pioneering and prophecy: A response to Thiessen and Dawson
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 deu…
Canada's Mythical Religious Mosaic: Some CensusFindings
Extensive world-wide emigration to Canada has resulted in the widely-held perception that this self-declared, 'multicultural'country is characterized by considerable religious diversity. National census data, however, suggest that such a religious mosaic is largely a myth. The proportion of Canadians who identify with Christianity remains high, while those who adhere to Other Faiths has risen only slightly over time. To the extent that religious …
On Boundaries, Gates, and Circulating Saints: A Longitudinal Look at Loyalty and Loss
Going, Going, Gone: The Impact of Geographical Mobility on Religious Involvement
Canadians' Belief in Catharsis
A national sample (N=3,815) of 15 to 19-year-old Canadian high school students responded to a questionnaire that assessed attitudes toward contemporary social problems, e.g., violence in schools, against women and that associated with youth gangs. Beliefs in catharsis were measured by asking respondents to indicate the extent to which participating in, and observing, aggression, reduces one's level of aggression. Males provided stronger support t…
Circulation of the Saints 1966-1990: New Data, New Reflections
Entre les annees 1960 et les annees 1990, un declin significatif de la participation religieuse est intervenu au Canada. La situation a permis aux groupes religieux les moins dominants y compris les protestants conservateurs de trouver une opportunite pour etendre les parts de marche. L'A. a controle les modeles d'accroissement de 20 Eglises evangeliques d'une ville de l'Ouest canadien depuis la fin des annees 1960. D'apres les resultats, la theo…
On the Circulatory Problems of Saints: A Response to Perrin and Mauss
Fragmented Gods: The Poverty and Potential of Religion in Canada
Fragmented Gods: The Poverty and Potential of Religion in Canada
Cult Consumption in Canada: A Further Critique of Stark and Bainbridge
Stark and Bainbridge have asserted that because of the unique ability of religion to address ultimate questions, secularization stimulates religious innovation. The decline of some religions is associated with the rise of new ones, precisely because the market becomes more open. Stark and Bainbridge have used North American and European data to show that cult activity is in fact most concentrated where conventional participation appears to be wea…
Circulation of the Saints in South America: A Comparative Study
Having examined the nature of conservative church growth in a highly industrialized setting, Canada, the authors turn to South America and explore evangelical expansion in Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru. Protestants in these developing countries are found to be growing primarily through proselytism, at the expense of the Roman Catholic Church. Nevertheless, as in Canada, the religious market in South America appears to be fairly tight. Moreover, the d…
Religious Encasement in Canada: An Argument for Protestant and Catholic Entrenchment
On accepte généralement de penser qu'après la Seconde Guerre Mondiale, le christianisme au Canada est entré dans une phase de déclin. En conséquence, une attention particulière est accordée aux alternatives possibles vers lesquelles les canadiens peuvent se tourn er. Toutefois, l'examen des faits les plus saillants, depuis les reven dications des gens eux-mêmes jusqu'aux modèles d'affiliation intergénérationnelle, ne montrent qu'une faible tendan…
The precarious mosaic: Divergence and convergence in the Canadian 80s
Circulation of the Saints Revisited: A Longitudinal Look at Conservative Church Growth
Reginald W. Bibby, Merlin B. Brinkerhoff, Circulation of the Saints Revisited: A Longitudinal Look at Conservative Church Growth, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Sep., 1983), pp. 253-262
Searching for Invisible Thread: Meaning Systems in Contemporary Canada
Beginning with a review of the theoretical and empirical work on invisible religion, the author proceeds to use Canadian national data to identify a number of conventional and unconventional themes which might characterize meaning systems in that country. The extent to which these themes are associated with the immanent level in the form of sphere integration and the ultimate level in the form of answers to ultimate questions is then examined. Wh…
The Circulation of the Saints: A Study of People Who Join Conservative Churches
Reginald W. Bibby, Merlin B. Brinkerhoff, The Circulation of the Saints: A Study of People Who Join Conservative Churches, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Sep., 1973), pp. 273-283
Fragmented Gods: The Poverty and Potential of Religion in Canada
Going, Going, Gone: The Impact of Geographical Mobility on Religious Involvement
Continuing the Conversation on Canada: Changing Patterns of Religious Service Attendance
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). Regin…
Canada's Mythical Religious Mosaic: Some CensusFindings
Extensive world-wide emigration to Canada has resulted in the widely-held perception that this self-declared, 'multicultural'country is characterized by considerable religious diversity. National census data, however, suggest that such a religious mosaic is largely a myth. The proportion of Canadians who identify with Christianity remains high, while those who adhere to Other Faiths has risen only slightly over time. To the extent that religious …
Circulation of the Saints 1966-1990: New Data, New Reflections
Entre les annees 1960 et les annees 1990, un declin significatif de la participation religieuse est intervenu au Canada. La situation a permis aux groupes religieux les moins dominants y compris les protestants conservateurs de trouver une opportunite pour etendre les parts de marche. L'A. a controle les modeles d'accroissement de 20 Eglises evangeliques d'une ville de l'Ouest canadien depuis la fin des annees 1960. D'apres les resultats, la theo…
Circulation of the Saints Revisited: A Longitudinal Look at Conservative Church Growth
Reginald W. Bibby, Merlin B. Brinkerhoff, Circulation of the Saints Revisited: A Longitudinal Look at Conservative Church Growth, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Sep., 1983), pp. 253-262
Why Conservative Churches Really Are Growing: Kelley Revisited
The application parameters of Kelley's thesis concerning Conservative church growth are examined from a recent Canadian national survey. Utilizing a basic demographic approach, the Conservative and Mainline groups had essentially the same proportion of proselytes, and the superior Conservative growth was related to: (1) birth and religious socialization, (2) switching, and (3) a higher level of participation. Kelley's thesis is seen as a plausibl…
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 deu…
On Boundaries, Gates, and Circulating Saints: A Longitudinal Look at Loyalty and Loss
Religious Encasement in Canada: An Argument for Protestant and Catholic Entrenchment
On accepte généralement de penser qu'après la Seconde Guerre Mondiale, le christianisme au Canada est entré dans une phase de déclin. En conséquence, une attention particulière est accordée aux alternatives possibles vers lesquelles les canadiens peuvent se tourn er. Toutefois, l'examen des faits les plus saillants, depuis les reven dications des gens eux-mêmes jusqu'aux modèles d'affiliation intergénérationnelle, ne montrent qu'une faible tendan…
Religionless Christianity: A profile of religion in the Canadian 80s
Why Bother with Organized Religion? A Response to Joel Thiessen
When Proselytizing Fails: An Organizational Analysis
The authors assert that an adequate understanding of religious proselytizing requires an understanding not only of the converts but also of organizational attempts to recruit them. Maintaining that the proselytizing of outsiders requires contact, bridging, and assimilation mechanisms, they examine the evangelistic efforts and results of 20 proselyte-minded Canadian churches over a five-year period. They find little evidence in evangelistic progra…
The perils of pioneering and prophecy: A response to Thiessen and Dawson
Sources of Religious Involvement: Issues for Future Empirical Investigation
Reginald W. Bibby, Merlin B. Brinkerhoff, Sources of Religious Involvement: Issues for Future Empirical Investigation, Review of Religious Research, Vol. 15, No. 2, Religious Identification and Involvement (Winter, 1974), pp. 71-79
Searching for Invisible Thread: Meaning Systems in Contemporary Canada
Beginning with a review of the theoretical and empirical work on invisible religion, the author proceeds to use Canadian national data to identify a number of conventional and unconventional themes which might characterize meaning systems in that country. The extent to which these themes are associated with the immanent level in the form of sphere integration and the ultimate level in the form of answers to ultimate questions is then examined. Wh…
The moral mosaic: Sexuality in the Canadian 80s
Religion and Modernity: The Canadian Case
The question of the relationship between modem industrialization and religiosity is examined in the Canadian setting, using data from the first national survey of religion in that country. The vast majority of Canadians are found to raise ultimate questions, but for most, such questions appear to be secondary rather than primary concerns. While perhaps two in five people give evidence of being inclined toward traditional Christianity, the New Rel…
The Circulation of the Saints: A Study of People Who Join Conservative Churches
Reginald W. Bibby, Merlin B. Brinkerhoff, The Circulation of the Saints: A Study of People Who Join Conservative Churches, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Sep., 1973), pp. 273-283
Skidders and Their Servants: Variable Goals and Functions of the Skid Road Rescue Mission
Reginald W. Bibby, Armand L. Mauss, Skidders and Their Servants: Variable Goals and Functions of the Skid Road Rescue Mission, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Dec., 1974), pp. 421-436
When Proselytizing Fails: An Organizational Analysis
The authors assert that an adequate understanding of religious proselytizing requires an understanding not only of the converts but also of organizational attempts to recruit them. Maintaining that the proselytizing of outsiders requires contact, bridging, and assimilation mechanisms, they examine the evangelistic efforts and results of 20 proselyte-minded Canadian churches over a five-year period. They find little evidence in evangelistic progra…
Sources of Religious Involvement: Issues for Future Empirical Investigation
Reginald W. Bibby, Merlin B. Brinkerhoff, Sources of Religious Involvement: Issues for Future Empirical Investigation, Review of Religious Research, Vol. 15, No. 2, Religious Identification and Involvement (Winter, 1974), pp. 71-79
Reply to Richardson's Critique
The Evangelicals: What They Believe, Who They Are, Where They Are Changing
Violence in Schools
The delicate mosaic: A national examination of inter-group relations in Canada
Why Conservative Churches Really Are Growing: Kelley Revisited
The application parameters of Kelley's thesis concerning Conservative church growth are examined from a recent Canadian national survey. Utilizing a basic demographic approach, the Conservative and Mainline groups had essentially the same proportion of proselytes, and the superior Conservative growth was related to: (1) birth and religious socialization, (2) switching, and (3) a higher level of participation. Kelley's thesis is seen as a plausibl…
The State of Collective Religiosity in Canada: An Empirical Analysis
On affirme que la spécialisation institutionnelle qui caractérise l'industrialisation est concomitante du déclin de la présence répandue de la religion. Soutenant de plus que les collectivités sont essentielles à la sustentation idéationnelle, l'auteur explore l'état du judéo‐cristianisme dans un Canada s'industrialisant par un examen de la participation à la religion formelle. En se servant d'un cadre démographique de base, et de données de rece…
Consensus in Diversity: An Examination of Canadian Problem Perception
Religion and Modernity: The Canadian Case
The question of the relationship between modem industrialization and religiosity is examined in the Canadian setting, using data from the first national survey of religion in that country. The vast majority of Canadians are found to raise ultimate questions, but for most, such questions appear to be secondary rather than primary concerns. While perhaps two in five people give evidence of being inclined toward traditional Christianity, the New Rel…
Crime and punishment: A national reading
Patterns in Pluralism: A Portrait of American Religion
Journal Article Patterns in Pluralism: A Portrait of American Religion, by William M. Newman and Peter L. Halvorson. Washington: Glenmary Research Center, 1980, 62 pp. $6.50 Get access Reginald W. Bibby Reginald W. Bibby The University of Lethbridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 42, Issue 1, Spring 1981, Pages 78–80, https://doi.org/10.2307/3709709 Published: 01 March 1981
The precarious mosaic: Divergence and convergence in the Canadian 80s
Circulation of the Saints Revisited: A Longitudinal Look at Conservative Church Growth
Reginald W. Bibby, Merlin B. Brinkerhoff, Circulation of the Saints Revisited: A Longitudinal Look at Conservative Church Growth, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Sep., 1983), pp. 253-262
Searching for Invisible Thread: Meaning Systems in Contemporary Canada
Beginning with a review of the theoretical and empirical work on invisible religion, the author proceeds to use Canadian national data to identify a number of conventional and unconventional themes which might characterize meaning systems in that country. The extent to which these themes are associated with the immanent level in the form of sphere integration and the ultimate level in the form of answers to ultimate questions is then examined. Wh…
Religionless Christianity: A profile of religion in the Canadian 80s
The moral mosaic: Sexuality in the Canadian 80s
Cult Consumption in Canada: A Further Critique of Stark and Bainbridge
Stark and Bainbridge have asserted that because of the unique ability of religion to address ultimate questions, secularization stimulates religious innovation. The decline of some religions is associated with the rise of new ones, precisely because the market becomes more open. Stark and Bainbridge have used North American and European data to show that cult activity is in fact most concentrated where conventional participation appears to be wea…
Circulation of the Saints in South America: A Comparative Study
Having examined the nature of conservative church growth in a highly industrialized setting, Canada, the authors turn to South America and explore evangelical expansion in Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru. Protestants in these developing countries are found to be growing primarily through proselytism, at the expense of the Roman Catholic Church. Nevertheless, as in Canada, the religious market in South America appears to be fairly tight. Moreover, the d…
Religious Encasement in Canada: An Argument for Protestant and Catholic Entrenchment
On accepte généralement de penser qu'après la Seconde Guerre Mondiale, le christianisme au Canada est entré dans une phase de déclin. En conséquence, une attention particulière est accordée aux alternatives possibles vers lesquelles les canadiens peuvent se tourn er. Toutefois, l'examen des faits les plus saillants, depuis les reven dications des gens eux-mêmes jusqu'aux modèles d'affiliation intergénérationnelle, ne montrent qu'une faible tendan…
Fragmented Gods: The Poverty and Potential of Religion in Canada
Fragmented Gods: The Poverty and Potential of Religion in Canada
On the Circulatory Problems of Saints: A Response to Perrin and Mauss
Sociology (29 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (21 works) · Political science (20 works) · Philosophy (16 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (8 works) · History (7 works)