Census data is never enough: How to make visible the religious diversity in Mexico
Since 1895, the Population and Housing Census of Mexico has included the variable ‘religious affiliation’, and this helped to affirm the monopoly of the Catholic religion. In the new millennium, the dynamics of religious diversification of recent decades required a change of design in order to captu...
| Published in: | Social compass |
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| Authors: | ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Sage
[2017]
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| In: |
Social compass
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Mexico
/ Religious pluralism
/ Measurability
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AX Inter-religious relations KBR Latin America |
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| Summary: | Since 1895, the Population and Housing Census of Mexico has included the variable ‘religious affiliation’, and this helped to affirm the monopoly of the Catholic religion. In the new millennium, the dynamics of religious diversification of recent decades required a change of design in order to capture the new situation, making religious minorities visible in a way that would propitiate a culture of pluralism. To this end, a team of researchers worked together to capture the diversity of religions in Mexico for the 2010 census. In this article we shall describe: a) the methodological strategies developed to improve the census classifier, and a critique of its achievements in capturing the diversity of religious affiliations and memberships in Mexico; b) the need to combine a quantitative approach to religious affiliation with qualitative approaches to religious self-identification in order to describe and analyze religious deinstitutionalization and individualization tendencies, applying questionnaires to representative samples of the population. |
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| ISSN: | 1461-7404 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Social compass
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0037768617697912 |