Religion and Civil Society in Europe

Religion is back again in Europe after never having been gone. It is manifest in the revival of religious institutions and traditions in former communist countries, in political controversies about the relationship between the church(es) and the state and

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Religion and Civil Society in Europe

Religion and Civil Society in Europe

Joep de Hart • Paul Dekker • Loek Halman Editors

Religion and Civil Society in Europe

Editors Joep de Hart The Netherlands Institute for Social Research | SCP The Hague, The Netherlands

Paul Dekker Tilburg University/The Netherlands Institute for Social Research | SCP Tilburg/The Hague, The Netherlands

Loek Halman Department of Sociology Tilburg University Tilburg, The Netherlands

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Note on the European Values Study as Main Data Source

Many of the contributions in this book make use of the survey data collected by the European Values Study. This longitudinal and international comparative survey research project started collecting data in 1981 for the first time in all, then, European Community member states and organised repeat surveys with a time interval of 9 years in an expanding number of countries. The latest wave of surveys took place in 2008 in all European countries, not only members of the European Union