The thesis promoted in some contributions as well as in the title, preface and introduction of the KMU V, namely that distance to the church and lack of affiliation with a denomination would correlate with religious indifference, is above all based on the question of the religious self-perception of church members and non-denominational people. However, findings from the areas of sociology of knowledge, identity theory and methodology as well as further survey results of the KMU V and its predecessors corroborate the assumption that weak church affiliation and lack of denominational attachment are not necessarily associated with increasing irreligion. External religio-sociological ascriptions may well and legitimately contradict religious self-perceptions.

Enthalten in:
Evangelische Theologie; 2015/3 Zweimonatsschrift (2015)

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Serie / Reihe: Evangelische Theologie

Personen: Raatz, Georg

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