Secularization Index Modeling
Secularization index modeling measures the decline of religion in modern societies and models its dynamics across generations. It combines two tasks: building defensible indices of religiosity from survey items on belief, belonging, and practice, and decomposing observed change into age, period, and cohort components to determine whether religion is fading as individuals age, as eras shift, or as each successive birth cohort enters life less religious than the last. Steve Bruce's God is Dead (2002) restated the classic secularization thesis that modernization corrodes religious authority and participation, while David Voas's 2009 analysis of European data showed that decline is overwhelmingly a cohort phenomenon and introduced the idea of 'fuzzy fidelity' - a large middle that is neither firmly religious nor wholly secular - that swells and then shrinks as societies move through the secular transition.
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- Voas, D. (2009). The Rise and Fall of Fuzzy Fidelity in Europe. European Sociological Review, 25(2), 155-168. DOI: 10.1093/esr/jcn044 ↗
- Bruce, S. (2002). God is Dead: Secularization in the West. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN: 9780631232759
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ScholarGate. (2026, June 23). Secularization Index Modeling (Religious-Decline Measurement and Cohort Modeling). ScholarGate. https://scholargate.app/sw/sociology-of-religion/secularization-index-modeling
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