Franz Höllinger
Biographic Data
| ID | 304990 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Franz Höllinger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Franz |
| FAMILY NAME | Höllinger |
| SIGNATURE | HÖLLINGER F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Graz |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8882-7958 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 154 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The impact of paranormal belief, spiritual practice, and religiosity on attitudes to the Covid pandemic: Empirical findings from Austria
Pandemie und Wertewandel: Verschiebungen von Wertprioritäten in der österreichischen Bevölkerung und in einzelnen Wähler*innenschichten als Reaktion auf die Covid-19-Pandemie
Soziologische Zeitdiagnosen suggerieren, dass tiefgreifende gesellschaftliche Krisen wie die COVID-19-Pandemie unsere Wertorientierungen infrage stellen und auch relativ kurzfristig ändern könn(t)en. Von dieser Beobachtung ausgehend, wird untersucht, ob es in Österreich im Zeitraum Mai 2020 bis März/April 2021 zu signifikanten Verschiebungen von Wertprioritäten nach der Skala von Shalom Schwartz kam. Als Datenmaterial dienen die beiden ersten Wel…
Religiosität in Österreich: Einheimische und Muslim*innen im Vergleich
In diesem Beitrag wurde anhand der österreichischen Daten des Religionsmonitor 2017 untersucht, wie sich Österreicher*innen ohne Migrationshintergrund (Einheimische) und in Österreich lebende Muslim*innen in Hinblick auf Religiosität unterscheiden und wie sie die Religiosität der anderen Gruppe wahrnehmen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass sich die Religiosität von Einheimischen und Muslim*innen in unterschiedliche Richtungen entwickelt. Bei den Einhei…
Intergenerationenbeziehungen im bäuerlichen Milieu zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts
Trotz des Strukturwandels in der Landwirtschaft hat sich die bäuerliche Lebensform der Mehrgenerationenfamilie in Österreich weitgehend erhalten. Allerdings stellt sich die Frage, wie sich diese Lebensform zu den tiefgreifenden Individualisierungstendenzen, die moderne Gesellschaften durchziehen, verhält. Anhand von 30 Interviews und einer österreichweiten Umfrage unter 269 Betriebsleiterinnen und -leitern untersucht der vorliegende Artikel, wie …
Religiosity in the major religious cultures of the world
Compared to other cross-national surveys, the religion-modules of the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) include a larger number of indicators on individual religiosity and thus allow for more differentiated analyses of cross-national differences. In this paper, we use these findings to point out in which ways the forms and development of religiosity differ between the major religious cultures of the world. In order to have a sufficient…
The impact of religiousness on attitudes towards religious others
Based on data from the Austrian Social Survey 2018, this article analyzes to what extent attitudes towards religious others are influenced by one’s relationship with religion. Five aspects of religiosity and attitudes to religion are taken into account: church-related religiosity (religious belief and practice), spirituality (engagement with alternative spiritual methods), religious fundamentalism, positive or negative perceptions of the role of …
Betriebliche Rahmenbedingungen und Perspektiven multifunktional-innovativer Landwirtschaft: Ergebnisse einer Mixed-Methods-Befragung von LandwirtInnen in Österreich
Soziologie in Brasilien
Religiousness and existential insecurity: A cross-national comparative analysis on the macro- and micro-level
In Sacred and Secular (2011 [2004]) Norris and Inglehart argued that improvements in material living conditions and higher degrees of existential security lead to a decline in religiousness both on the macro-level of the comparison between countries and on the individual level. Since then, a number of studies have examined this relationship and confirmed the assumptions of the existential security thesis. This article revisits this thesis using d…
Sozialstruktur und Wertewandel in Österreich: Trends 1986-2016
Religionssoziologie
Value orientations and social attitudes in the holistic milieu
Based on a representative population survey for Germany this article investigates whether engagement in holistic activities is associated with privatized lifestyles and lack of social responsibility or with countercultural orientations and base-democratic political commitment. To analyse this question, respondents who are engaged in holistic activities are divided into three groups that are compared with each other as well as with Christians and …
Functional equivalence and validity of religiousness indicators in cross-cultural comparative surveys
Cross-cultural comparative surveys have become an important tool to investigate social attitudes across different countries. However, this methodology is confronted with a number of challenges. One of the core problems is the functional equivalence of the concepts and indicators used. In this article, we study this problem in regard to the investigation of religiousness in three prominent surveys, the World Value Survey, the International Social …
New Age Spirituality: Rethinking Religion
According to the editors of this collection, the study of New Age phenomena has proceeded in three waves: in the first wave, the primary goal was to determine the content of the so-called New Age m
Methodological Problems of Quantitative Comparative Social Research
The comparison between different countries and cultures constitutes the most important methodological tool of sociology and the social sciences. With the establishment of regular worldwide social surveys in the 1980s, international comparative research has accomplished a fundamental empirical and methodological breakthrough. The easy accessibility of these international comparative survey data and packages of statistical data analysis, however, m…
Volksreligion und Herrschaftskirche: Die Wurzeln religiösen Verhaltens in westlichen Gesellschaften
Size and Structure of the Holistic Milieu: A Comparison of Local Mapping Studies in Austria and Sweden
This article presents the results of two local mapping studies in Sweden and Austria that follow the methodological procedure of the British Kendal project. All practitioners offering courses, therapies or counseling in the areas of holistic spirituality and complementary health methods (such as yoga, Reiki, kinesiology, astrology, and shamanism) were mapped. A sub-sample of the mapped practitioners were contacted in person and asked about their …
Volksreligion und Herrschaftskirche: Die Wurzeln Religiösen Verhaltens in Westlichen Gesellschaften
Ganzheitliches Leben: Das holistische Milieu zwischen neuer Spiritualität und postmoderner Wellness-Kultur
Yoga, Astrologie, Feng Shui, Reiki oder Schamanismus: Ganzheitliche Körper-, Selbsterfahrungs- und Heilpraktiken erfreuen sich in den letzten Jahren zunehmender Beliebtheit. Das Buch beleuchtet diesen Trend anhand einer empirischen Studie aus soziologischer Perspektive, geht den sozialen und kulturellen Wurzeln der holistischen Bewegung nach und fragt u.a.: Wie weit sind die Heil oder Heilung versprechenden Praktiken in der Bevölkerung verbreitet…
Nationalstolz zwischen Patriotismus und Nationalismus: Empirisch-methodologische Analysen und Reflexionen am Beispiel des International Social Survey Programme 2003 „National Identity“
Christian Religion, Society and the State in the modern World
This paper is an attempt to explain why religious beliefs and practice have strongly declined in some parts of the world, in particular in Europe, while in other parts religion continues to play a central role in the public sphere and in private life. It is argued that the following factors determine the patterns of religiosity in contemporary Christian societies: substantive differences between religious doctrines and denominations with respect …
Does the counter-cultural character of new age persist? Investigating social and political attitudes of new age followers
From its beginnings in the 1960s up to the present, the New Age movement has undergone considerable change. Originally, it was a counter-cultural movement, interacting with other counter-cultural movements of that time, such as the ecology, hippie, and commune movements. During the last decades, spiritual and esoteric methods have been popularised and commercialised by an expanding market of literature and workshops. This has made New Age a socia…
Religion and Esotericism among Students: A Cross-Cultural Comparative Study
Analysing the results of a study on religious and esoteric beliefs and practice among university students from five European and five American countries, we found that the level of religiousness of students depends very much on their cultural environment: the level of religiosity and esoteric beliefs is significantly higher among North- and South-American students than among European students. On the other hand, Asian spiritual techniques and eso…
Mary Daly: The gender division of welfare. The impact of the British and German welfare state
Volksreligion und Herrschaftskirche
Das Kirchenvolksbegehren, das heuer in Österreich durchgeführt und von mehr als einer halben Million Menschen unterschrieben wurde, bringt zum Ausdruck, daß es in der Kirche wieder einmal -wie schon s
Kinship and social networks in modern societies: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Among Seven Nations
This paper examines social networks in cross-national comparison, especially the assumption that in modern societies kin ties are loosening while non-kin ties are gaining importance in people's social networks. This assumption can be held only for the Northwest-European cultural area and the New World-countries descending from them. Americans and Australians have gone further in the loosening of kin ties than Britons, Germans and Austrians. Itali…
Religiousness and existential insecurity: A cross-national comparative analysis on the macro- and micro-level
In Sacred and Secular (2011 [2004]) Norris and Inglehart argued that improvements in material living conditions and higher degrees of existential security lead to a decline in religiousness both on the macro-level of the comparison between countries and on the individual level. Since then, a number of studies have examined this relationship and confirmed the assumptions of the existential security thesis. This article revisits this thesis using d…
Does the counter-cultural character of new age persist? Investigating social and political attitudes of new age followers
From its beginnings in the 1960s up to the present, the New Age movement has undergone considerable change. Originally, it was a counter-cultural movement, interacting with other counter-cultural movements of that time, such as the ecology, hippie, and commune movements. During the last decades, spiritual and esoteric methods have been popularised and commercialised by an expanding market of literature and workshops. This has made New Age a socia…
Religion and Esotericism among Students: A Cross-Cultural Comparative Study
Analysing the results of a study on religious and esoteric beliefs and practice among university students from five European and five American countries, we found that the level of religiousness of students depends very much on their cultural environment: the level of religiosity and esoteric beliefs is significantly higher among North- and South-American students than among European students. On the other hand, Asian spiritual techniques and eso…
Religiosity in the major religious cultures of the world
Compared to other cross-national surveys, the religion-modules of the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) include a larger number of indicators on individual religiosity and thus allow for more differentiated analyses of cross-national differences. In this paper, we use these findings to point out in which ways the forms and development of religiosity differ between the major religious cultures of the world. In order to have a sufficient…
Christian Religion, Society and the State in the modern World
This paper is an attempt to explain why religious beliefs and practice have strongly declined in some parts of the world, in particular in Europe, while in other parts religion continues to play a central role in the public sphere and in private life. It is argued that the following factors determine the patterns of religiosity in contemporary Christian societies: substantive differences between religious doctrines and denominations with respect …
Value orientations and social attitudes in the holistic milieu
Based on a representative population survey for Germany this article investigates whether engagement in holistic activities is associated with privatized lifestyles and lack of social responsibility or with countercultural orientations and base-democratic political commitment. To analyse this question, respondents who are engaged in holistic activities are divided into three groups that are compared with each other as well as with Christians and …
Functional equivalence and validity of religiousness indicators in cross-cultural comparative surveys
Cross-cultural comparative surveys have become an important tool to investigate social attitudes across different countries. However, this methodology is confronted with a number of challenges. One of the core problems is the functional equivalence of the concepts and indicators used. In this article, we study this problem in regard to the investigation of religiousness in three prominent surveys, the World Value Survey, the International Social …
Nationalstolz zwischen Patriotismus und Nationalismus: Empirisch-methodologische Analysen und Reflexionen am Beispiel des International Social Survey Programme 2003 „National Identity“
Sozialstruktur und Wertewandel in Österreich: Trends 1986-2016
Methodological Problems of Quantitative Comparative Social Research
The comparison between different countries and cultures constitutes the most important methodological tool of sociology and the social sciences. With the establishment of regular worldwide social surveys in the 1980s, international comparative research has accomplished a fundamental empirical and methodological breakthrough. The easy accessibility of these international comparative survey data and packages of statistical data analysis, however, m…
Intergenerationenbeziehungen im bäuerlichen Milieu zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts
Trotz des Strukturwandels in der Landwirtschaft hat sich die bäuerliche Lebensform der Mehrgenerationenfamilie in Österreich weitgehend erhalten. Allerdings stellt sich die Frage, wie sich diese Lebensform zu den tiefgreifenden Individualisierungstendenzen, die moderne Gesellschaften durchziehen, verhält. Anhand von 30 Interviews und einer österreichweiten Umfrage unter 269 Betriebsleiterinnen und -leitern untersucht der vorliegende Artikel, wie …
Size and Structure of the Holistic Milieu: A Comparison of Local Mapping Studies in Austria and Sweden
This article presents the results of two local mapping studies in Sweden and Austria that follow the methodological procedure of the British Kendal project. All practitioners offering courses, therapies or counseling in the areas of holistic spirituality and complementary health methods (such as yoga, Reiki, kinesiology, astrology, and shamanism) were mapped. A sub-sample of the mapped practitioners were contacted in person and asked about their …
Kinship and social networks in modern societies: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Among Seven Nations
This paper examines social networks in cross-national comparison, especially the assumption that in modern societies kin ties are loosening while non-kin ties are gaining importance in people's social networks. This assumption can be held only for the Northwest-European cultural area and the New World-countries descending from them. Americans and Australians have gone further in the loosening of kin ties than Britons, Germans and Austrians. Itali…
Volksreligion und Herrschaftskirche
Das Kirchenvolksbegehren, das heuer in Österreich durchgeführt und von mehr als einer halben Million Menschen unterschrieben wurde, bringt zum Ausdruck, daß es in der Kirche wieder einmal -wie schon s
Church attachment and the role of Churches in state and society: A cross-national comparison
Mary Daly: The gender division of welfare. The impact of the British and German welfare state
Religion and Esotericism among Students: A Cross-Cultural Comparative Study
Analysing the results of a study on religious and esoteric beliefs and practice among university students from five European and five American countries, we found that the level of religiousness of students depends very much on their cultural environment: the level of religiosity and esoteric beliefs is significantly higher among North- and South-American students than among European students. On the other hand, Asian spiritual techniques and eso…
Does the counter-cultural character of new age persist? Investigating social and political attitudes of new age followers
From its beginnings in the 1960s up to the present, the New Age movement has undergone considerable change. Originally, it was a counter-cultural movement, interacting with other counter-cultural movements of that time, such as the ecology, hippie, and commune movements. During the last decades, spiritual and esoteric methods have been popularised and commercialised by an expanding market of literature and workshops. This has made New Age a socia…
Christian Religion, Society and the State in the modern World
This paper is an attempt to explain why religious beliefs and practice have strongly declined in some parts of the world, in particular in Europe, while in other parts religion continues to play a central role in the public sphere and in private life. It is argued that the following factors determine the patterns of religiosity in contemporary Christian societies: substantive differences between religious doctrines and denominations with respect …
Nationalstolz zwischen Patriotismus und Nationalismus: Empirisch-methodologische Analysen und Reflexionen am Beispiel des International Social Survey Programme 2003 „National Identity“
Ganzheitliches Leben: Das holistische Milieu zwischen neuer Spiritualität und postmoderner Wellness-Kultur
Yoga, Astrologie, Feng Shui, Reiki oder Schamanismus: Ganzheitliche Körper-, Selbsterfahrungs- und Heilpraktiken erfreuen sich in den letzten Jahren zunehmender Beliebtheit. Das Buch beleuchtet diesen Trend anhand einer empirischen Studie aus soziologischer Perspektive, geht den sozialen und kulturellen Wurzeln der holistischen Bewegung nach und fragt u.a.: Wie weit sind die Heil oder Heilung versprechenden Praktiken in der Bevölkerung verbreitet…
Volksreligion und Herrschaftskirche: Die Wurzeln Religiösen Verhaltens in Westlichen Gesellschaften
Volksreligion und Herrschaftskirche: Die Wurzeln religiösen Verhaltens in westlichen Gesellschaften
Size and Structure of the Holistic Milieu: A Comparison of Local Mapping Studies in Austria and Sweden
This article presents the results of two local mapping studies in Sweden and Austria that follow the methodological procedure of the British Kendal project. All practitioners offering courses, therapies or counseling in the areas of holistic spirituality and complementary health methods (such as yoga, Reiki, kinesiology, astrology, and shamanism) were mapped. A sub-sample of the mapped practitioners were contacted in person and asked about their …
New Age Spirituality: Rethinking Religion
According to the editors of this collection, the study of New Age phenomena has proceeded in three waves: in the first wave, the primary goal was to determine the content of the so-called New Age m
Methodological Problems of Quantitative Comparative Social Research
The comparison between different countries and cultures constitutes the most important methodological tool of sociology and the social sciences. With the establishment of regular worldwide social surveys in the 1980s, international comparative research has accomplished a fundamental empirical and methodological breakthrough. The easy accessibility of these international comparative survey data and packages of statistical data analysis, however, m…
Functional equivalence and validity of religiousness indicators in cross-cultural comparative surveys
Cross-cultural comparative surveys have become an important tool to investigate social attitudes across different countries. However, this methodology is confronted with a number of challenges. One of the core problems is the functional equivalence of the concepts and indicators used. In this article, we study this problem in regard to the investigation of religiousness in three prominent surveys, the World Value Survey, the International Social …
Religionssoziologie
Value orientations and social attitudes in the holistic milieu
Based on a representative population survey for Germany this article investigates whether engagement in holistic activities is associated with privatized lifestyles and lack of social responsibility or with countercultural orientations and base-democratic political commitment. To analyse this question, respondents who are engaged in holistic activities are divided into three groups that are compared with each other as well as with Christians and …
Sozialstruktur und Wertewandel in Österreich: Trends 1986-2016
Religiousness and existential insecurity: A cross-national comparative analysis on the macro- and micro-level
In Sacred and Secular (2011 [2004]) Norris and Inglehart argued that improvements in material living conditions and higher degrees of existential security lead to a decline in religiousness both on the macro-level of the comparison between countries and on the individual level. Since then, a number of studies have examined this relationship and confirmed the assumptions of the existential security thesis. This article revisits this thesis using d…
The impact of religiousness on attitudes towards religious others
Based on data from the Austrian Social Survey 2018, this article analyzes to what extent attitudes towards religious others are influenced by one’s relationship with religion. Five aspects of religiosity and attitudes to religion are taken into account: church-related religiosity (religious belief and practice), spirituality (engagement with alternative spiritual methods), religious fundamentalism, positive or negative perceptions of the role of …
Betriebliche Rahmenbedingungen und Perspektiven multifunktional-innovativer Landwirtschaft: Ergebnisse einer Mixed-Methods-Befragung von LandwirtInnen in Österreich
Soziologie in Brasilien
Intergenerationenbeziehungen im bäuerlichen Milieu zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts
Trotz des Strukturwandels in der Landwirtschaft hat sich die bäuerliche Lebensform der Mehrgenerationenfamilie in Österreich weitgehend erhalten. Allerdings stellt sich die Frage, wie sich diese Lebensform zu den tiefgreifenden Individualisierungstendenzen, die moderne Gesellschaften durchziehen, verhält. Anhand von 30 Interviews und einer österreichweiten Umfrage unter 269 Betriebsleiterinnen und -leitern untersucht der vorliegende Artikel, wie …
Religiosity in the major religious cultures of the world
Compared to other cross-national surveys, the religion-modules of the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) include a larger number of indicators on individual religiosity and thus allow for more differentiated analyses of cross-national differences. In this paper, we use these findings to point out in which ways the forms and development of religiosity differ between the major religious cultures of the world. In order to have a sufficient…
Pandemie und Wertewandel: Verschiebungen von Wertprioritäten in der österreichischen Bevölkerung und in einzelnen Wähler*innenschichten als Reaktion auf die Covid-19-Pandemie
Soziologische Zeitdiagnosen suggerieren, dass tiefgreifende gesellschaftliche Krisen wie die COVID-19-Pandemie unsere Wertorientierungen infrage stellen und auch relativ kurzfristig ändern könn(t)en. Von dieser Beobachtung ausgehend, wird untersucht, ob es in Österreich im Zeitraum Mai 2020 bis März/April 2021 zu signifikanten Verschiebungen von Wertprioritäten nach der Skala von Shalom Schwartz kam. Als Datenmaterial dienen die beiden ersten Wel…
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (13 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Humanities (5 works)