Religious practice versus subjective religiosity: Catholics and those with 'no religion' in the French 2017 presidential election

Since the 1930s, the frequency of mass attendance has been the most widely used indicator of involvement in Catholicism in France. Yet its validity is sometimes debated: to what extent can subjective religiosity constitute an alternative measure? Both indicators seem closely related. However, the so...

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Auteur principal: Dargent, Claude (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Sage [2019]
Dans: Social compass
Année: 2019, Volume: 66, Numéro: 2, Pages: 164-181
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Présidents / Élection présidentielle / Pratique religieuse / Catholique / Irréligion / Religiosité / Geschichte 2017
Classifications IxTheo:AB Philosophie de la religion
KBG France
KDB Église catholique romaine
ZC Politique en général
Sujets non-standardisés:B Electoral Behavior
B Survey
B Catholicisme
B comportement électoral
B Catholicism
B subjective religiosity
B religiosité subjective
B Religious Practice
B Pratique religieuse
B sondage
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Résumé:Since the 1930s, the frequency of mass attendance has been the most widely used indicator of involvement in Catholicism in France. Yet its validity is sometimes debated: to what extent can subjective religiosity constitute an alternative measure? Both indicators seem closely related. However, the social distributions they perform diverge at the margin. And the large sample on which this research is based reveals changes in contemporary Catholicism - particularly with regard to the urban rather than rural character of today's practitioners. Electoral behaviour is also used in this article as a touchstone for the comparison of the two indicators. Previous research has established the strong link between Catholic religious practice and right-wing - but not far-right - voting. Despite the singularity of the 2017 election, the analysis establishes that this still holds true - and that the combination of these two indicators allows for subtler insight into this link.
ISSN:1461-7404
Contient:Enthalten in: Social compass
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0037768619832805