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Dissection of a religious revival: a case study of Georgia

Dissection of a religious revival: a case study of Georgia. Marion Burkimsher University of Lausanne. Full page advertisement in The Economist and the Wall Street Journal, spring 2012. Main religions of Georgia and its neighbours Georgia: Georgian Orthodox

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Dissection of a religious revival: a case study of Georgia

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  1. Dissection of a religious revival:a case study of Georgia Marion Burkimsher University of Lausanne

  2. Full page advertisement in The Economist and the Wall Street Journal, spring 2012

  3. Main religions of Georgia and its neighbours Georgia: Georgian Orthodox Armenia: Armenian Apostolic church (Orthodox) Azerbaijan: Muslim (predominantly Shia) Russia: Russian Orthodox Turkey: Muslim (predominantly Sunni)

  4. Data sources World Values Survey (WVS)Repeated cross-sectional surveys, 96 countries Georgia 1996 and 20082008 and 1500 respondents European Values Study (EVS)Successor to WVS, 47 countries surveyed in 2008Georgia 1500 respondents Generation and Gender Survey (GGS)3 wave longitudinal study: Georgia 2006, 2009, 2012: 10,000 respondents in wave 1 European Social Survey (ESS)5 waves, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010Does not include Georgia, does include Turkey and Russia

  5. Proportion of each age group attending religious services at least once a month Data source: GGS wave 1, 2006

  6. How unusual is Georgia’s religious landscape? • Age differentials • Cohort differentials • Cohort trends over time • Trends of young people over time • Changes in individual religiosity over life course • Trends in relation to Human Development Index • Variable considered is ‘attendance at religious services’, with frequency of at least once a month defining an ‘attender’

  7. Georgia data from WVS 2008

  8. Data sources: WVS and ESS

  9. Trends in religious attendance rates over time for specific cohort bands: countries experiencing revival Solid lines are for the 1950s cohort band; dashed lines for the 1960s; dotted lines for the 1970sData sources: Georgia WVS, GGS, EVS; Romania, Latvia, Russia WVS, ESS

  10. Data sources WVS, ESS

  11. Change in frequency of religious attendance between age 12 and time of survey GreatBritain Data source: EVS 2008

  12. Data source: WVS

  13. Ongoing research • Small collaboration between: • Stefan Huber - religious studies, Bern • Odilo Huber - sociologist, Fribourg • Irina Badurashvili - demographer, Georgia • Marion Burkimsher - demographer, Lausanne • Added several questions to GGS wave 3: • 1. How often do you pray? • 2. How often do you think about religious issues? • 3. How often do you experience situations where you have the feeling that God or something divine intervenes in your life? • 4. To what extent do you believe in God or something divine? • 5. All in all, how religious would you consider yourself to be? • 6. And what about when you were around 11 or 12, how often did you attend religious services then?

  14. Thank you! • Questions, comments? • What questions should be investigated in this project?

  15. Data source ESS 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008

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