Ettore Scappini
Biographic Data
| ID | 304835 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ettore Scappini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ettore |
| FAMILY NAME | Scappini |
| SIGNATURE | SCAPPINI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Education Studies University of Bologna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4909-8737 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Is There Really 'Another' Counterexample to the Secularization Thesis? Religious Dynamics in Italy between 1910 and 2013
Background Among the modern Western countries where the issue of religiosity has been studied, the United States and Italy offer the only examples of empirically verified periods when religious practice was consolidated or even revived to some extent. A recent study, however, shows that the nature of religious exceptionalism in the United States does not constitute a real counterexample. This leaves Italy as the only country that might provide ev…
Calibrating Questionnaires with Weekly Diaries
This article presents an innovative approach to improve the power of questionnaires by combining them with weekly diaries. The aim is to show how one can calibrate information collected from questionnaires, which provide a distribution that is in general biased, with diary data, which are more accurate but cannot provide a distribution across a range of frequencies. These problems become even more pronounced when the object of analysis is a speci…
Problems in Measuring Diachronic Religious Behavior, or Using Indicators to 'Make a Virtue of Necessity
The aim of this study is to show the different advantages and drawbacks of the main quantitative indicators used in research on diachronic religious behavior. We will demonstrate that religious affiliation has to be used in long-term studies; although it is extremely imprecise, it is often available over long periods of time. Instead, the best solution for medium-term studies is to use frequency of attendance at religious services. This indicator…
The Dynamics of Religious Practice in Spain from the Mid-19th Century to 2010
Like other Western countries, Spain is rapidly becoming more secularized. While there is almost unanimous agreement that this is happening, significant discord exists about the phases of the process and the speed of its development. This is mostly due to the use of partial and sometimes unreliable data. The aim of this study is to remedy these uncertainties. Our work is based on the data provided by time-use surveys conducted in 2003 and 2010. Us…
Church Attendance, Problems of Measurement, and Interpreting Indicators
Church attendance is usually measured in surveys by asking a direct question about frequency of churchgoing over a preset period of time, which is typically a year. Different studies have cast doubt over the validity of this indicator as it tends to overestimate actual attendance to a significant degree. The aim of this article is to compare data on church attendance provided by two different types of research conducted in the United States betwe…
Church Attendance, Problems of Measurement, and Interpreting Indicators
Church attendance is usually measured in surveys by asking a direct question about frequency of churchgoing over a preset period of time, which is typically a year. Different studies have cast doubt over the validity of this indicator as it tends to overestimate actual attendance to a significant degree. The aim of this article is to compare data on church attendance provided by two different types of research conducted in the United States betwe…
The Dynamics of Religious Practice in Spain from the Mid-19th Century to 2010
Like other Western countries, Spain is rapidly becoming more secularized. While there is almost unanimous agreement that this is happening, significant discord exists about the phases of the process and the speed of its development. This is mostly due to the use of partial and sometimes unreliable data. The aim of this study is to remedy these uncertainties. Our work is based on the data provided by time-use surveys conducted in 2003 and 2010. Us…
Is There Really 'Another' Counterexample to the Secularization Thesis? Religious Dynamics in Italy between 1910 and 2013
Background Among the modern Western countries where the issue of religiosity has been studied, the United States and Italy offer the only examples of empirically verified periods when religious practice was consolidated or even revived to some extent. A recent study, however, shows that the nature of religious exceptionalism in the United States does not constitute a real counterexample. This leaves Italy as the only country that might provide ev…
Calibrating Questionnaires with Weekly Diaries
This article presents an innovative approach to improve the power of questionnaires by combining them with weekly diaries. The aim is to show how one can calibrate information collected from questionnaires, which provide a distribution that is in general biased, with diary data, which are more accurate but cannot provide a distribution across a range of frequencies. These problems become even more pronounced when the object of analysis is a speci…
Problems in Measuring Diachronic Religious Behavior, or Using Indicators to 'Make a Virtue of Necessity
The aim of this study is to show the different advantages and drawbacks of the main quantitative indicators used in research on diachronic religious behavior. We will demonstrate that religious affiliation has to be used in long-term studies; although it is extremely imprecise, it is often available over long periods of time. Instead, the best solution for medium-term studies is to use frequency of attendance at religious services. This indicator…
Church Attendance, Problems of Measurement, and Interpreting Indicators
Church attendance is usually measured in surveys by asking a direct question about frequency of churchgoing over a preset period of time, which is typically a year. Different studies have cast doubt over the validity of this indicator as it tends to overestimate actual attendance to a significant degree. The aim of this article is to compare data on church attendance provided by two different types of research conducted in the United States betwe…
The Dynamics of Religious Practice in Spain from the Mid-19th Century to 2010
Like other Western countries, Spain is rapidly becoming more secularized. While there is almost unanimous agreement that this is happening, significant discord exists about the phases of the process and the speed of its development. This is mostly due to the use of partial and sometimes unreliable data. The aim of this study is to remedy these uncertainties. Our work is based on the data provided by time-use surveys conducted in 2003 and 2010. Us…
Problems in Measuring Diachronic Religious Behavior, or Using Indicators to 'Make a Virtue of Necessity
The aim of this study is to show the different advantages and drawbacks of the main quantitative indicators used in research on diachronic religious behavior. We will demonstrate that religious affiliation has to be used in long-term studies; although it is extremely imprecise, it is often available over long periods of time. Instead, the best solution for medium-term studies is to use frequency of attendance at religious services. This indicator…
Calibrating Questionnaires with Weekly Diaries
This article presents an innovative approach to improve the power of questionnaires by combining them with weekly diaries. The aim is to show how one can calibrate information collected from questionnaires, which provide a distribution that is in general biased, with diary data, which are more accurate but cannot provide a distribution across a range of frequencies. These problems become even more pronounced when the object of analysis is a speci…
Is There Really 'Another' Counterexample to the Secularization Thesis? Religious Dynamics in Italy between 1910 and 2013
Background Among the modern Western countries where the issue of religiosity has been studied, the United States and Italy offer the only examples of empirically verified periods when religious practice was consolidated or even revived to some extent. A recent study, however, shows that the nature of religious exceptionalism in the United States does not constitute a real counterexample. This leaves Italy as the only country that might provide ev…
Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (3 works) · Attendance (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Demography (2 works)