RT Article
T1 By Faith Alone?: Church Attendance and Christian Faith in three European Countries
JF Journal of contemporary religion
VO 22
IS 1
SP 35
OP 48
A1 Lüchau, Peter
LA English
PB Carfax Publ.
YR 2007
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1691155357
AB Many social scientists seem to believe that Catholics attend church more often than Protestants because of differences in theology and not necessarily because Protestants are more secularised. In an attempt to settle this issue, this article uses data from the 1999 European Values Study to determine what factors influence church attendance in a Catholic, Protestant, and mixed European country (Italy, Denmark, and Germany). Using an ordinary least squares multiple regression the article shows that for both Catholics and Protestants it is predominantly the level of Christian faith that determines the rate of church attendance. Hence the differences in church attendance among Catholics and Protestants reflect differences in overall levels of religiosity and are not just artefacts of different views of the importance of going to church. Even Protestants do not live by faith alone.
DO 10.1080/13537900601114479