Measuring Christian Religiosity by Google Trends

This work proposes a new method to construct a measure of religiosity by utilizing information obtained from Google Trends. The proposed measure, named Christian Religiosity Revealed by Search, is built upon ten comparisons between religious and non-religious topics, and is shown to perform better t...

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主要作者: Yeung, Timothy Yu-Cheong (Author)
格式: 電子 Article
語言:English
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出版: Springer [2019]
In: Review of religious research
Year: 2019, 卷: 61, 發布: 3, Pages: 235-257
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B 基督教 / 宗教性 / Messbarkeit / 谷歌 / 信息檢索 / World Values Survey
IxTheo Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AE Psychology of religion
CB Christian life; spirituality
Further subjects:B Google Trends
B Christianity
B Religiosity
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總結:This work proposes a new method to construct a measure of religiosity by utilizing information obtained from Google Trends. The proposed measure, named Christian Religiosity Revealed by Search, is built upon ten comparisons between religious and non-religious topics, and is shown to perform better than the frequently used Gallup Poll and World Values Survey religiosity scores in explaining some economic and political indicators.
ISSN:2211-4866
Contains:Enthalten in: Review of religious research
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s13644-019-00379-w