The Effect of Religiosity on Life Satisfaction in a Secularized Context: Assessing the Relevance of Believing and Belonging
The positive relationship between religiosity and life satisfaction is well-established. This relationship is, however, likely to vary across cultural contexts and different religious affiliations. Furthermore, research is needed to uncover why religion is relevant for life satisfaction. Addressing...
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Publicado: |
[2017]
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| En: |
Review of religious research
Año: 2017, Volumen: 59, Número: 2, Páginas: 135-155 |
| (Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar: | B
Niederlande
/ Cristiano
/ Musulmán
/ Religiosidad
/ Conforto físico
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| Clasificaciones IxTheo: | AD Sociología de la religión BJ Islam CA Cristianismo KBD Benelux |
| Otras palabras clave: | B
Religious Affiliation
B Subjective well-being B Religión B Belonging B Life Satisfaction B Believing |
| Acceso en línea: |
Presumably Free Access Volltext (Publisher) Volltext (doi) |
| Sumario: | The positive relationship between religiosity and life satisfaction is well-established. This relationship is, however, likely to vary across cultural contexts and different religious affiliations. Furthermore, research is needed to uncover why religion is relevant for life satisfaction. Addressing these issues, we investigate what dimensions of being religious play a role in the life satisfaction of individuals with different religious affiliations, including the understudied Muslim category, in the highly secularized Dutch context. We examine believing', which captures how religion provides meaning and a coherent worldview, and belonging', which comprises both cultural benefits of being embedded in a congregation with a shared framework of meaning and structural benefits due to more social ties. Analyses of the NEtherlands Longitudinal Lifecourse Study (n = 5312) first indicate that Muslims display significantly lower life satisfaction than the non-religious, which appears to be due to their underprivileged social position rather than intra-religious factors of believing and belonging. Second, we find that Catholics experience significant life satisfaction benefits compared to those who are not religious, and that only belonging plays a role in this association. Next to the beneficial effect of the structural aspect of belonging, which revolves around social ties, a cultural aspect of religious belonging appears to be salient, suggesting that an important life satisfaction advantage of religious communities lies in their ability to foster a sense of solidarity and commitment through a shared framework of meaning. We make several recommendations for further research based on these findings. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Obras secundarias: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s13644-016-0282-1 |
