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  1. National context, parental socialization, and the varying relationship between religious belief and practice

    David Voas and Ingrid Storm

    1. Religion
    2. Child Development
    3. Societies
    4. Social Attitudes
    5. Sociology Of Households
    6. Social Psychology

  2. The Dawkins effect? Celebrity scientists, (non)religious publics and changed attitudes to evolution

    Amy Unsworth and David Voas

    1. Public Opinion
    2. Psychology
    3. Science And Technology
    4. Religion
    5. Social Attitudes
    6. Social Psychology

  3. Is the secularization research programme progressing? Debate on Jörg Stolz’s article on secularization theories in the 21st century: ideas, evidence, and problems

    David Voas

    1. Science And Technology
    2. Religion
    3. Social Change
    4. Research

  4. Attitudes to evolution among Christians, Muslims and the Non-Religious in Britain: differential effects of religious and educational factors

    Amy Unsworth and David Voas

  5. Stress levels among Anglican clergy: the beneficial effects of feeling supported

    Leslie J. Francis, Andrew Village, and David Voas

    1. Social Networks
    2. Psychology
    3. Religion
    4. Well Being
    5. Health

  6. Intentionality, numerical growth and the rural church

    David Voas

  7. Post-materialist religion: pagan identities and value change in modern Europe, by Mika T. Lassander -book review-

    David Voas

  8. Do social crises cause religious revivals? What British church adherence rates show

    Steve Bruce and David Voas

  9. Is the United States a counterexample to the secularization thesis?

    David Voas and Mark Chaves

  10. Psychological types and self-assessed leadership skills of clergy in the Church of England

    Laura Watt and David Voas

    1. Psychology
    2. Religion
    3. Organizations And Firms

  11. Religious involvement over the life course: problems of measurement and classification

    David Voas

    1. Religion
    2. Survey Methodology
    3. Life Course Analysis

  12. The normalization of non-religion: a reply to James Lewis

    David Voas

  13. Introduction for special section: attitudes: ontology, methodology, impact

    Mark Elliot, David Voas, and Alison Park

    1. Social Sciences
    2. Sociology

  14. Does education develop or diminish spirituality in Taiwan?

    David Voas

    1. Religion
    2. Education

  15. The world’s religions in figures: an introduction to international religious demography, by Todd M. Johnson and Brian J. Grim -book review-

    David Voas

    1. Demography
    2. Religion

  16. Afterword: some reflections on numbers in the study of religion

    David Voas

    1. Statistical Analysis
    2. Religion

  17. Immigrant generation, religiosity and civic engagement in Britain

    Siobhan McAndrew and David Voas

  18. Towards a sociology of attitudes

    David Voas

    1. Social Attitudes
    2. Sociology

  19. Modernization and the gender gap in religiosity: evidence from cross-national European surveys

    David Voas, Siobhan McAndrew, and Ingrid Storm

  20. European-born Muslims and religion

    David Voas

  21. Church growth in Britain: 1980 to the present, by D. J. Goodhew (ed.) -book review-

    David Voas

  22. The intergenerational transmission of religious services attendance

    Ingrid Storm and David Voas

    1. Demography
    2. Religion
    3. Social Behaviour

  23. Three puzzles of non-religion in Britain

    David Voas and Siobhan McAndrew

  24. The intergenerational transmission of churchgoing in England and Australia

    David Voas and Ingrid Storm

    1. Demography
    2. Religion
    3. Social Behaviour

  25. Islam moves West: religious change in the first and second generations

    David Voas and Fenella Fleischmann

    1. Migration
    2. Religion

  26. Secularization in Europe: religious change between and within birth cohorts

    David Voas and Stefanie Doebler

    1. Demography
    2. Religion
    3. Social Change

  27. The emergence of conspirituality

    Charlotte Ward and David Voas

    1. Philosophy
    2. Religion

  28. Value liberalization or consumption: comment on Hirschle’s analysis of Ireland's economic boom and the decline in church attendance

    David Voas

    1. Religion
    2. Social Change
    3. Economics

  29. Vicarious religion: an examination and critique

    Steve Bruce and David Voas

    1. Religion
    2. Social Behaviour

  30. The maintenance and transformation of ethnicity: evidence on mixed partnerships in Britain

    David Voas

    1. Social Groups
    2. Religion
    3. Family Formation And Dissolution

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