J Stolz
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 7847 |
|---|---|
| NOME | J Stolz |
| PRENOMES | J |
| SOBRENOME | Stolz |
| ASSINATURA | STOLZ J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Lausanne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3849-7812 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 125 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The Faith Factor. How Scholars’ Religiosity Biases Research Findings on Secularization
Secularization is one of the most debated areas of research in current sociology of religion. Despite hundreds of empirical studies, researchers do not even agree on the very existence of secularization in different parts of the world. This article investigates whether some of the variability in findings may be attributed not to the social reality investigated but to bias in the form of researchers' own religiosity. Specifically, we test whether …
The Sequential Rise of Female Religious Leadership
In his seminal work 'Ordaining Women,' Mark Chaves (1997b) highlighted the phenomenon of 'loose coupling' regarding female religious leadership: congregations often display inconsistencies between their stated policies and actual practices. Some congregations declare openness to female leadership but do not practice it, whereas others officially forbid female leadership yet have women in leadership roles. Our article identifies a theoretical mech…
Beyond Doubt
Journal Article Beyond Doubt: The Secularization of Society. By Isabella Kasselstrand, Phil Zuckerman, and Ryan T. Cragun Get access Beyond Doubt: The Secularization of Society. By Isabella Kasselstrand, Phil Zuckerman, and Ryan T. Cragun. New York: New York University Press, 2023. 169pp. $30.00 paper. Jörg Stolz Jörg Stolz University of Lausanne, ISSR, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3849-7812 Search fo…
To speak out or not to speak out? Exploring the reporting of discrimination among Muslims and Jews in Switzerland
Muslims and Jews are among the minorities in Switzerland who are most disliked and discriminated against, but the frequency with which the two groups report racist incidents to official bodies and initiate court proceedings differs greatly. The goal of this paper is to establish the extent of these differences and to explore the reasons for them. We use data from a representative survey, official datasets of reported cases of discrimination and l…
Can We Explain the Generation Gap in Churchgoing
In western societies, secularization in the sense of declining individual religiosity is mainly caused by cohort replacement. Every cohort is somewhat less religious than its predecessor, indicating that religious transmission is incomplete. The puzzle is just what causes this incomplete transmission and whether there is one or a restricted number of factors that mainly explain the process. Our aim in this article is to establish, describe, and e…
Diversity Dynamics
Religious diversity is often described and measured statically. This article goes a step further by describing how congregational religious diversity changes over time, and by exposing the mechanisms underlying these changes. We combine data from two censuses (from 2008 and 2020) of congregations in Switzerland with a sample-based national congregation study conducted in 2008. Our main findings are the following: (1) overall, the number of congre…
The theory of social games
Sociological general theories (or “grand theories”) have been criticized for being too abstract to be of any practical use for empirical sociological work. This paper presents the outline of a general theory that claims to be better linked to empirical social research than previous theoretical attempts. The theory analyzes social life as a multitude of interacting social games. A social game is an entity created by players with resources who enga…
A counterexample to secularization theory? Assessing the Georgian religious revival
Secularization theory allows for transitory religious revivals under certain conditions, such as extreme societal crises or state weakness. The country of Georgia has witnessed the largest religious revival of Orthodox countries and one of the most striking religious resurgences worldwide. This paper gives both a statistical and historical description of this revival and asks whether it is a counterexample to secularization theory. We show that t…
Bens de salvação e mercados religiosos
Apesar do enorme sucesso do conceito de "mercados religiosos", ainda não está claro o que são "bens religiosos", e sob quais condições um "mercado religioso" de fato existe em uma determinada sociedade. O autor integra diferentes conceitos dos teóricos da escolha racional e de Max Weber em uma nova tipologia de bens religiosos individuais e sociais. A tipologia mostra que os mercados são apenas uma possibilidade entre tantas outras de produção, t…
Explaining Religious Revival in the Context of Long-Term Secularization
Secularization theory has often been criticized for not being able to explain counterexamples. However, secularization theorists argue that transitory religious resurgences are expected to occur even in modernizing conditions. The aim of this article is to identify mechanisms that can explain the temporary upswing of religion against the backdrop of long-term modernization. We classify the mechanisms under five broad headings: crisis, reaction, t…
Perceived discrimination among Muslims and its correlates. A comparative analysis
Many studies have found that Muslims in Western countries perceive more discrimination than most other religious groups. However, less attention has been paid to the life domains and correlates of this perceived discrimination. The aim of this study is to determine the scope of perceived discrimination among Muslims and to test hypotheses regarding how their perceived discrimination is correlated with socio-structural disadvantages and ingroup id…
Is France exceptionally irreligious? A comparative test of the cohort replacement theory
Si les chercheurs ont souvent souligné le fait que la France est peut-être un pays exceptionnellement irréligieux, cette hypothèse n'a pas encore été testée avec des données longitudinales ; et les chercheurs n'ont pas non plus tenté d'expliquer cette prétendue irréligiosité. Le présent article tente de combler cette lacune de la littérature en comparant la France à d'autres pays catholiques d'Europe occidentale. Pour ce faire, nous utilisons l'e…
Losing My Religion as a Natural Experiment
The sociological literature has produced a remarkably consistent picture of the quantitative patterns of religious disaffiliations in Western countries. This article argues, and demonstrates, that strong changes in a social context may lead individuals to disaffiliate rapidly, leading to very different aggregate effects from those in the 'western model.' We use the unique situation of the separation of Germany from 1949 to 1989 and its subsequent…
Secularization theories in the twenty-first century
This article argues that quantitative secularization research has made important progress in the last 20 years in seven areas. We have gained knowledge of how religion and religiosity are connected to insecurity, education, socialization, secular transition, secular competition, pluralism, and regulation. This has led to a better understanding of the causes and the form of the secularization process. In this article, the author discusses the new …
Secularization research and its competitors
This article is a response to the articles published in this issue of Social Compass by François Gauthier, Tobias Müller, David Voas and Sarah Wilkens-Laflamme about the presidential address given by Jörg Stolz at the SISR Congress in July 2019 and titled Secularization theories in the twenty-first century: Ideas, evidence, and problems
Does establishment suppress the political activities of religious congregations? Evidence from Switzerland
Establishment of churches is a central feature of the church-state regime in most European countries, and understanding the nature of such privileges is of key importance for both theoretical and political reasons. Yet, there is little empirical research on how establishment influences the organizational behavior of congregations. This article looks at this question by focusing on one relationship in one geographical context: we investigate wheth…
Can the State Accelerate the Secular Transition? Secularization in East and West Germany as a Natural Experiment
Germany was a divided country from 1949 until 1989. During this period, West Germany remained a rather religious country, while East Germany became, under socialist rule, one of the most secular regions in the world. We use this case of socialist state intervention as a natural experiment to test Voas' model of secular transition, which states that all Western and Central European countries follow the same path and speed of secularization. We emp…
The Titanic Game
Despite tremendous interest in social games and game studies, the potential of game heuristics for the field of mixed methods remains unknown. This article introduces game heuristics to mixed methods research, showing how it was used in a specific study on the survival probabilities on the Titanic. Specifically, we describe how game heuristics was used to create the explanandum, code and interpret the qualitative material, and set up and interpre…
Female religious leadership in Switzerland
Women’s access to positions of leadership in religions is a highly contested issue in Western societies, both inside religions themselves and in societal discussions of religion. Reliable data on actual female leadership are, however, scarce, especially in European countries and regarding minority religions. This article describes and explains statistically the normative openness of congregations to female leadership as well as the actual existen…
Growth and Decline of Evangelicals, Fundamentalists, Pentecostals, and Charismatics in Switzerland 1970-2013
This article describes and explains patterns of growth and decline undergone by evangelical, fundamentalist, and Pentecostal/Charismatic (EFPC) denominations in Switzerland from 1970 to 2013. We combine data from different censuses, membership registers of denominations, and a National Congregation Study (NCS) to establish and explain patterns of growth and decline. Our main results are that (1) the overall EFPC milieu has grown since the 1970s; …
The Muslim Employment Gap, Human Capital, and Ethno-Religious Penalties
In Europe, Muslims are more likely to be unemployed than non-Muslims. Many studies try to explain this employment gap by human capital and contextual factors on the one hand, and by ethno-religious penalties (discrimination due to religious affiliation, religiosity, or migration factors) on the other. In these studies, it is normally assumed that human capital mediates the effect of Muslim affiliation, and that controlling for human capital will …
Economics of religion on trial
According to ideas in contemporary economics of religion, religious disestablishment will lead to religious vitality: more strictness, more evangelising, and more growth. The present article puts this theory to the test by inspecting the historical record (1900 to the present) of the two Swiss cantons where disestablishment went farthest—Geneva and Neuchâtel—and by comparing them to other Swiss cantons where church and state remained closely link…
Does disestablishment lead to religious vitality? The case of Switzerland
Economists and sociologists of religion have claimed that religious establishment dampens religious vitality, leading to lower recruitment efforts, low attendance, declining membership within established congregations, and the 'crowding out' of non-established congregations. Conversely, these authors have told us, disestablishment will lead to more religious vitality. Remarkably, even though these claims rest on the connection between establishme…
Vielfalt der Religionen – Risiken und Chancen des Zusammenlebens
Revue d’Histoire et de Philosophie Religieuses. 2017 - 1, 97e année, n° 1
Fondée en 1921, la Revue d’Histoire et de Philosophie religieuses publie, en français, des articles scientifiques couvrant l’ensemble des disciplines de la théologie protestante
Explaining religiosity
The article presents a unified theoretical model, explaining differences in Christian and 'alternative' religiosity at individual and collective levels. The model reconstructs and integrates the most important theories explaining religiosity (deprivation, regulation, socialization, cultural production, and ethnicity) as complementary causal mechanisms in a rational-action based framework. It is maintained that the mechanisms of the various theori…
Can the State Accelerate the Secular Transition? Secularization in East and West Germany as a Natural Experiment
Germany was a divided country from 1949 until 1989. During this period, West Germany remained a rather religious country, while East Germany became, under socialist rule, one of the most secular regions in the world. We use this case of socialist state intervention as a natural experiment to test Voas' model of secular transition, which states that all Western and Central European countries follow the same path and speed of secularization. We emp…
All Things Are Possible
Pentecostal miracles and healings have often been described and interpreted, but rarely explained in their sociological workings. As former research implies, actual biomedical effects of Pentecostal healings are possible (the so-called placebo effect), but quite limited. In Pentecostal healing services, however, very impressive miracles and healings are routinely produced: paralytics arise from wheelchairs, cancerous ulcers disappear, legs grow, …
A counterexample to secularization theory? Assessing the Georgian religious revival
Secularization theory allows for transitory religious revivals under certain conditions, such as extreme societal crises or state weakness. The country of Georgia has witnessed the largest religious revival of Orthodox countries and one of the most striking religious resurgences worldwide. This paper gives both a statistical and historical description of this revival and asks whether it is a counterexample to secularization theory. We show that t…
Elements of a Theory of Religious-Secular Competition
Este artigo apresenta elementos básicos de uma teoria da competição religioso-secular ao nível individual. A teoria argumenta que, em muitas sociedades, os indivíduos podem escolher entre opções seculares e religiosas, criando uma situação de competição entre instituições religiosas e seculares. A competição entre fornecedores religiosos e seculares é influenciada por três fatores contextuais importantes: inovação, regulação e recursos. Oferecemo…
Explaining Religious Revival in the Context of Long-Term Secularization
Secularization theory has often been criticized for not being able to explain counterexamples. However, secularization theorists argue that transitory religious resurgences are expected to occur even in modernizing conditions. The aim of this article is to identify mechanisms that can explain the temporary upswing of religion against the backdrop of long-term modernization. We classify the mechanisms under five broad headings: crisis, reaction, t…
Is France exceptionally irreligious? A comparative test of the cohort replacement theory
Si les chercheurs ont souvent souligné le fait que la France est peut-être un pays exceptionnellement irréligieux, cette hypothèse n'a pas encore été testée avec des données longitudinales ; et les chercheurs n'ont pas non plus tenté d'expliquer cette prétendue irréligiosité. Le présent article tente de combler cette lacune de la littérature en comparant la France à d'autres pays catholiques d'Europe occidentale. Pour ce faire, nous utilisons l'e…
The Muslim Employment Gap, Human Capital, and Ethno-Religious Penalties
In Europe, Muslims are more likely to be unemployed than non-Muslims. Many studies try to explain this employment gap by human capital and contextual factors on the one hand, and by ethno-religious penalties (discrimination due to religious affiliation, religiosity, or migration factors) on the other. In these studies, it is normally assumed that human capital mediates the effect of Muslim affiliation, and that controlling for human capital will …
Does disestablishment lead to religious vitality? The case of Switzerland
Economists and sociologists of religion have claimed that religious establishment dampens religious vitality, leading to lower recruitment efforts, low attendance, declining membership within established congregations, and the 'crowding out' of non-established congregations. Conversely, these authors have told us, disestablishment will lead to more religious vitality. Remarkably, even though these claims rest on the connection between establishme…
Can We Explain the Generation Gap in Churchgoing
In western societies, secularization in the sense of declining individual religiosity is mainly caused by cohort replacement. Every cohort is somewhat less religious than its predecessor, indicating that religious transmission is incomplete. The puzzle is just what causes this incomplete transmission and whether there is one or a restricted number of factors that mainly explain the process. Our aim in this article is to establish, describe, and e…
Losing My Religion as a Natural Experiment
The sociological literature has produced a remarkably consistent picture of the quantitative patterns of religious disaffiliations in Western countries. This article argues, and demonstrates, that strong changes in a social context may lead individuals to disaffiliate rapidly, leading to very different aggregate effects from those in the 'western model.' We use the unique situation of the separation of Germany from 1949 to 1989 and its subsequent…
Female religious leadership in Switzerland
Women’s access to positions of leadership in religions is a highly contested issue in Western societies, both inside religions themselves and in societal discussions of religion. Reliable data on actual female leadership are, however, scarce, especially in European countries and regarding minority religions. This article describes and explains statistically the normative openness of congregations to female leadership as well as the actual existen…
Growth and Decline of Evangelicals, Fundamentalists, Pentecostals, and Charismatics in Switzerland 1970-2013
This article describes and explains patterns of growth and decline undergone by evangelical, fundamentalist, and Pentecostal/Charismatic (EFPC) denominations in Switzerland from 1970 to 2013. We combine data from different censuses, membership registers of denominations, and a National Congregation Study (NCS) to establish and explain patterns of growth and decline. Our main results are that (1) the overall EFPC milieu has grown since the 1970s; …
Economics of religion on trial
According to ideas in contemporary economics of religion, religious disestablishment will lead to religious vitality: more strictness, more evangelising, and more growth. The present article puts this theory to the test by inspecting the historical record (1900 to the present) of the two Swiss cantons where disestablishment went farthest—Geneva and Neuchâtel—and by comparing them to other Swiss cantons where church and state remained closely link…
Opening the Black Box. How the Study of Social Mechanisms Can Benefit from the Use of Explanatory Mixed Methods
This article argues that analytical sociology an approach that attempts to study social mechanisms ‘without, black boxes’ can benefit from the use of explanatory mixed methods. Analytical sociologists mainly relate their theoretical and agent-based models to representative surveys and experiments. While their central claim is to find and test the actual mechanisms that have produced the explanandum. the mechanisms they postulate often remain spec…
Does establishment suppress the political activities of religious congregations? Evidence from Switzerland
Establishment of churches is a central feature of the church-state regime in most European countries, and understanding the nature of such privileges is of key importance for both theoretical and political reasons. Yet, there is little empirical research on how establishment influences the organizational behavior of congregations. This article looks at this question by focusing on one relationship in one geographical context: we investigate wheth…
Entwurf einer Theorie religiös-säkularer Konkurrenz
Wie wirkt Pluralität auf individuelle Religiosität? Eine Konfrontation von Wissenssoziologie und Rational Choice
Interdisziplinär konzipiert, zeigt dieses Buch in historischer und gegenwartsbezogener Perspektive die Komplexität und den Facettenreichtum des religiösen Pluralismus auf, der unsere gesellschaftliche Wirklichkeit zunehmend bestimmt. Die hier dokumentierten religionswissenschaftlichen, soziologischen, rechtlichen und philosophischen Zugänge sind dabei behilflich, sich mit Religion und ihrer weltweit wachsenden gesellschaftlichen Relevanz auseinan…
The Evangelical Milieu
English The authors give the first description of evangelicalism in Switzerland using representative data. It is shown that evangelicalism can be conceived of as a “milieu” which is characterized by certain structural and cultural traits, boundaries and high internal communication. The relative success of the evangelical milieu compared to other religious milieus is explained by its remarkable ability to retain its own numerous offspring, while o…
Salvation Goods and Religious Markets
English In spite of the tremendous success of the concept of “religious markets”, it has remained unclear just what “religious goods” are and if, and under what conditions, a “religious market” actually exists in a given society. The author integrates different concepts from rational choice theorists and Max Weber into a new typology of individual and social religious goods. The typology shows that markets are only one possibility among others of…
Religiöse Vielfalt und moderne Gesellschaft
Religiöse Vielfalt in der Schweiz
Vorwort
Autorinnen und Autoren
Die Evangelikalen
Einleitung
Religiöse Vielfalt
Vielfalt der Religionen - Risiken und Chancen des Zusammenlebens
"Débats autour de la sécularisation, la "guerre des genres'' et le clivage entre qualitatif et quantitatif
Les trois contributions de Pollack, Woodhead et Lamine proposent, chacune à leur manière, un état des lieux original sur la question: Pollack présente et confronte la théorie de l'individualisation à la théorie du marché et de la sécularisation. Woodhead, quant à elle, propose une théorie de la sécularisation basée sur une perspective de genre et Lamine, enfin, se focalise sur les complexités de la micro-croyance. L'auteur évalue les points forts…
Explaining religiosity
The article presents a unified theoretical model, explaining differences in Christian and 'alternative' religiosity at individual and collective levels. The model reconstructs and integrates the most important theories explaining religiosity (deprivation, regulation, socialization, cultural production, and ethnicity) as complementary causal mechanisms in a rational-action based framework. It is maintained that the mechanisms of the various theori…
All Things Are Possible
Pentecostal miracles and healings have often been described and interpreted, but rarely explained in their sociological workings. As former research implies, actual biomedical effects of Pentecostal healings are possible (the so-called placebo effect), but quite limited. In Pentecostal healing services, however, very impressive miracles and healings are routinely produced: paralytics arise from wheelchairs, cancerous ulcers disappear, legs grow, …
Entwurf einer Theorie religiös-säkularer Konkurrenz
The Diversity of Religious Diversity. Using Census and NCS Methodology in Order to Map and Assess the Religious Diversity of a Whole Country
Use of Islam in the Definition of Foreign Otherness in Switzerland
(Un)Believing in Modern Society
Religious NGOs in International Relations
The author of this book claims that the resurgence of religion in the public domain, indicated by authors such as Jose Casanova, Martin Riesebrodt, Samuel Huntington, and Mark Juergensmeyer, can to
Opening the Black Box. How the Study of Social Mechanisms Can Benefit from the Use of Explanatory Mixed Methods
This article argues that analytical sociology an approach that attempts to study social mechanisms ‘without, black boxes’ can benefit from the use of explanatory mixed methods. Analytical sociologists mainly relate their theoretical and agent-based models to representative surveys and experiments. While their central claim is to find and test the actual mechanisms that have produced the explanandum. the mechanisms they postulate often remain spec…
Institutional, Alternative, Distanced, and Secular
Milieus and Mixed Methods
Elements of a Theory of Religious-Secular Competition
Este artigo apresenta elementos básicos de uma teoria da competição religioso-secular ao nível individual. A teoria argumenta que, em muitas sociedades, os indivíduos podem escolher entre opções seculares e religiosas, criando uma situação de competição entre instituições religiosas e seculares. A competição entre fornecedores religiosos e seculares é influenciada por três fatores contextuais importantes: inovação, regulação e recursos. Oferecemo…
The Muslim Employment Gap, Human Capital, and Ethno-Religious Penalties
In Europe, Muslims are more likely to be unemployed than non-Muslims. Many studies try to explain this employment gap by human capital and contextual factors on the one hand, and by ethno-religious penalties (discrimination due to religious affiliation, religiosity, or migration factors) on the other. In these studies, it is normally assumed that human capital mediates the effect of Muslim affiliation, and that controlling for human capital will …
Economics of religion on trial
According to ideas in contemporary economics of religion, religious disestablishment will lead to religious vitality: more strictness, more evangelising, and more growth. The present article puts this theory to the test by inspecting the historical record (1900 to the present) of the two Swiss cantons where disestablishment went farthest—Geneva and Neuchâtel—and by comparing them to other Swiss cantons where church and state remained closely link…
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