A Need for Religion : Insecurity and Religiosity in the Contemporary World.

Intro -- A Need for Religion: Insecurity and Religiosity in the Contemporary World -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures, Tables and Maps -- 1 Introduction -- 1 Why the Need to Study Insecurity and Religiosity? -- 2 A Guide for This Book -- 3 Methodology and Appendices -- 2 The Broad Frame of Secularization Theory -- 1 The Sociological Roots of Secularization Theory -- 2 Alternative Approaches -- 3 The Post-secularism -- 4 Modernity and Modernizations How to Simplify the Complex -- 5 One Secularization, More Secularizations -- 6 Different Levels of Interpretation -- 7 Which Secularization? -- 3 Insecurity Theory in Sociological Literature -- 1 The Sociological Roots of Insecurity Theory -- 2 Insecurity Theory as a Macro Theory to Explain Religious Decline -- 3 Insecurity Theory as a Micro Theory to Explain Religious Change -- 4 Religious Coping and Religious Resources -- 4 A Look at the World: The Empirical Bases of Insecurity Theory -- 1 Towards a More Robust Exploration -- 2 Steps in Modernization -- 5 Exploring Relations: Does Insecurity Matter? -- 1 Are Religious People Happier? -- 2 Does Religiosity Mitigate Losses in Life satisfaction? -- 3 Are Insecure People More Likely to Be Religious? -- 4 Disentangling the Mechanisms One Insecurity, More Insecurities -- 6 Bringing Back Individuals: Do Negative Events Foster Religiosity? -- 1 A Longitudinal Panel Study for Germany and the United Kingdom -- 2 Testing the Mechanisms of Individual Change -- 3 The (Non) Effect of Life-threatening Events -- 7 Moving into the Longitudinal: Changes in Insecurity and Secularization -- 1 Towards a Model for Explaining Religious Change -- 2 Conceptualizing Insecurity and Its Effect on Religiosity -- 3 Longitudinal Argumentations and Cross-sectional Data -- 4 Insecurity Theory More Static Than Dynamic.

8 Insecurity and Religious Change: Facts, Facets and Notes of Caution -- 1 Europe as Exception or Example? -- 2 Religious Evolution in Asia, Africa and South America -- 3 Same Path, Different Positions -- 9 Conclusions: The Triggering Role of Insecurity -- 1 Insecurity and Religious Decline What Do We Know and What Should We Know? -- 2 From Observation to Understanding -- 3 Final Remarks -- Appendix 1 Studying Religion with Quantitative Methods: A Toolbox -- 1 Globalization of Surveys -- 2 Individual and Aggregate Relations - Reasoning Multilevel -- 3 Causality and Associations -- 4 Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Relations -- 5 Multidimensionality -- Appendix 2 Data, Methods and Tables -- 1 The Surveys -- 2 The Techniques -- 3 The Tables -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Thematic Index.

In A Need for Religion: Insecurity and Religiosity in the Contemporary World Francesco Molteni analyses the decline in religiosity observed in developed countries in relation to the diminished need for reassurance and support that religion provides.

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