RT Article
T1 Religiosity and Aging: Age and Cohort Effects and Their Implications for the Future of Religious Values in High-Income OECD Countries
JF Journal for the scientific study of religion
VO 58
IS 3
SP 591
OP 603
A1 Shulgin, Sergey
A1 Korotaev, Andrej Vitalʹevič 1961-
A1 Zinkina, Julia
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2019
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1681183129
AB It has long been noticed that older people tend to be more religious than younger people. However, it is still disputable whether this fact should be attributed to people generally becoming more religious with age per se (age effect), or to the process of secularization, wherein earlier cohorts (to which the now older people belong) used to be more religious than those that appeared later, younger cohorts (cohort effect). We try to distinguish between these two effects using a multifactor model applied to World Values Survey data (1981-2014) and find that at least in the developed countries the age effect strongly prevails over the cohort effect. This finding has important implications, e.g., that population aging in OECD countries can possibly slow down the transition from religious to secular values. This effect is already visible in some countries, such as Japan.
K1 Japan
K1 World Values Survey
K1 age effect
K1 Cohort Effect
K1 Developed countries
K1 global aging
K1 Older people
K1 Religiosity
K1 Secularization
DO 10.1111/jssr.12613