William James Hoverd
Biographic Data
| ID | 4223552 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William James Hoverd |
| GIVEN NAMES | William James |
| FAMILY NAME | Hoverd |
| SIGNATURE | HOVERD W J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria University of Wellington |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5184-2599 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Secret History
Representing New Zealand Religious Diversity? The Removal of the Words "True Religion" and "Jesus Christ" from the Parliamentary Prayer
On November 11, 2017, the Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives the Rt. Hon. Trevor Mallard chose to open the House with an amended version of the traditional Parliamentary Prayer. This new version omitted the traditional references to “Jesus Christ our Lord,” “true religion,” and “the honour of the Queen.” Moreover, it was also spoken in the indigenous language, Te Reo (Māori).1 For some religious groups, this omission stirred stro…
The Christchurch Call
New Zealand Religious Community Responses to Covid-19 While Under Level 4 Lockdown
Social scientific research into the impact of COVID-19 on religious communities is emergent. This research combines interview data (n = 12) collected, as New Zealand moved into Level 3-Restrict and then Level 4-Lockdown, with Facebook and online news media analysis to understand how religious leaders and their communities responded to COVID-19. Our data found four challenges: (1) The requirement to reassess worship practices, (2) the need to miti…
Playing Hide and Speak
The deliberate disclosures of vast tranches of classified information to the media is a relatively recent phenomenon, with some scholars predicting that “the mass leaker may replace or supplement t
Forecasting religious change
For over a century, sociologists of religion have been describing declining trends in religious affiliation across most industrialized countries, a trend that Max Weber characterized as “the disenchantment of the world.” Although secularization is a matter of ongoing debate, there is relatively little predictive modeling. Using New Zealand census data from 1966–2006, we develop a Bayesian predictive model to forecast the proportion of the populat…
Does poverty predict religion
The question of how religion relates to poverty has long fascinated social scientists, yet answers remain elusive. Deprivation theory holds that lower socio-economic standing is associated with higher religious identification, but not with religious affiliation. Cross-cultural support, however, is limited. The present study addressed this gap by testing the predictions of deprivation theory using a large (n =6,518) national probability sample of …
Group Size and the Trajectory of Religious Identification
The relative size of religious groups or denominations within societies or nations influences variation in the extent to which group members psychologically identify with their religion. National-level census data measuring the proportional size of religious groups in New Zealand are merged with nationally representative data on self-reported psychological identification drawn from the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study. A multilevel random c…
The Gap in the Subjective Wellbeing of Māori and New Zealand Europeans Widened Between 2005 and 2009
Immoral Bodies
Three studies examined the ways in which cognitive appraisals of health and the condition of the body use moral discourse derived from Christianity. Study 1 indicated that people explicitly rated health-related behaviors such as exercising and dieting as more pious and less sinful than their negative counterparts. Studies 2 and 3 elaborated upon these results using the Implicit Association Test, a cognitive procedure for examining automatic (or i…
The Gap in the Subjective Wellbeing of Māori and New Zealand Europeans Widened Between 2005 and 2009
Immoral Bodies
Three studies examined the ways in which cognitive appraisals of health and the condition of the body use moral discourse derived from Christianity. Study 1 indicated that people explicitly rated health-related behaviors such as exercising and dieting as more pious and less sinful than their negative counterparts. Studies 2 and 3 elaborated upon these results using the Implicit Association Test, a cognitive procedure for examining automatic (or i…
Group Size and the Trajectory of Religious Identification
The relative size of religious groups or denominations within societies or nations influences variation in the extent to which group members psychologically identify with their religion. National-level census data measuring the proportional size of religious groups in New Zealand are merged with nationally representative data on self-reported psychological identification drawn from the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study. A multilevel random c…
Immoral Bodies
Three studies examined the ways in which cognitive appraisals of health and the condition of the body use moral discourse derived from Christianity. Study 1 indicated that people explicitly rated health-related behaviors such as exercising and dieting as more pious and less sinful than their negative counterparts. Studies 2 and 3 elaborated upon these results using the Implicit Association Test, a cognitive procedure for examining automatic (or i…
The Gap in the Subjective Wellbeing of Māori and New Zealand Europeans Widened Between 2005 and 2009
Group Size and the Trajectory of Religious Identification
The relative size of religious groups or denominations within societies or nations influences variation in the extent to which group members psychologically identify with their religion. National-level census data measuring the proportional size of religious groups in New Zealand are merged with nationally representative data on self-reported psychological identification drawn from the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study. A multilevel random c…
Does poverty predict religion
The question of how religion relates to poverty has long fascinated social scientists, yet answers remain elusive. Deprivation theory holds that lower socio-economic standing is associated with higher religious identification, but not with religious affiliation. Cross-cultural support, however, is limited. The present study addressed this gap by testing the predictions of deprivation theory using a large (n =6,518) national probability sample of …
Forecasting religious change
For over a century, sociologists of religion have been describing declining trends in religious affiliation across most industrialized countries, a trend that Max Weber characterized as “the disenchantment of the world.” Although secularization is a matter of ongoing debate, there is relatively little predictive modeling. Using New Zealand census data from 1966–2006, we develop a Bayesian predictive model to forecast the proportion of the populat…
Playing Hide and Speak
The deliberate disclosures of vast tranches of classified information to the media is a relatively recent phenomenon, with some scholars predicting that “the mass leaker may replace or supplement t
The Christchurch Call
New Zealand Religious Community Responses to Covid-19 While Under Level 4 Lockdown
Social scientific research into the impact of COVID-19 on religious communities is emergent. This research combines interview data (n = 12) collected, as New Zealand moved into Level 3-Restrict and then Level 4-Lockdown, with Facebook and online news media analysis to understand how religious leaders and their communities responded to COVID-19. Our data found four challenges: (1) The requirement to reassess worship practices, (2) the need to miti…
Representing New Zealand Religious Diversity? The Removal of the Words "True Religion" and "Jesus Christ" from the Parliamentary Prayer
On November 11, 2017, the Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives the Rt. Hon. Trevor Mallard chose to open the House with an amended version of the traditional Parliamentary Prayer. This new version omitted the traditional references to “Jesus Christ our Lord,” “true religion,” and “the honour of the Queen.” Moreover, it was also spoken in the indigenous language, Te Reo (Māori).1 For some religious groups, this omission stirred stro…
Secret History
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Demography (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (3 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (3 works)