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Do ‘spiritual’ self-identifications signify affinity with New Age religion? Survey evidence from the Netherlands Open
sponsorship: This research was supported by KU Leuven (grant number 3H160220) as part of thefirstauthor's PhD project on religious decline and religious change in Western-Europe. (KU Leuven|3H160220)
Toward electoral (ir)relevance of moral traditionalism? Religious decline and voting in Western Europe (1981–2017) Open
This article tests two contrasting hypotheses about changes in the electoral relevance of moral traditionalism–progressiveness, which pertains to attitudes toward matters of procreation, sexuality, and family and gender roles. While the “c…
How polarized is Europe? Public opinion disagreement, issue alignment, and sorting across European countries Open
Whereas attitudinal polarization has become a hot topic for academic debates in the USA over recent decades, the question of whether, and over which issues, European countries are polarized has so far received limited scholarly attention. …
Religious and secular value divides in Western Europe: A cross-national comparison (1981–2008) Open
Studies on cultural divisions in Western European politics typically combine two different value divides. The first divide is moral traditionalism versus progressiveness, which pits the religious and the secular against each other on matte…
‘Believing without Belonging’ in Twenty European Countries (1981–2008) De-institutionalization of Christianity or Spiritualization of Religion? Open
Extending and building on previous work on the merits of Grace Davie's theory about ‘believing without belonging’, this paper offers a comparative analysis of changes in the relationships between ‘believing’ and ‘belonging’ across countrie…
The “New” Cultural Cleavage in Western Europe: A Coalescence of Religious and Secular Value Divides?—ERRATUM Open
status: Published online
The “New” Cultural Cleavage in Western Europe: A Coalescence of Religious and Secular Value Divides? Open
Moral traditionalism versus progressiveness and secular authoritarianism versus libertarianism are often understood as central to the same “new” cultural cleavage in politics. Despite the often-found sizable correlations between these two …