Measuring Christian Religiosity by Google Trends

This work proposes a new method to construct a measure of religiosity by utilizing information obtained from Google Trends. The proposed measure, named Christian Religiosity Revealed by Search, is built upon ten comparisons between religious and non-religious topics, and is shown to perform better t...

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Autore principale: Yeung, Timothy Yu-Cheong (Autore)
Tipo di documento: Elettronico Articolo
Lingua:Inglese
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Pubblicazione: [2019]
In: Review of religious research
Anno: 2019, Volume: 61, Fascicolo: 3, Pagine: 235-257
(sequenze di) soggetti normati:B Cristianesimo / Religiosità / Misurabilità / Google / Information retrieval / World Values Survey
Notazioni IxTheo:AD Sociologia delle religioni
AE Psicologia delle religioni
CB Esistenza cristiana
Altre parole chiave:B Google Trends
B Christianity
B Religiosity
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Riepilogo:This work proposes a new method to construct a measure of religiosity by utilizing information obtained from Google Trends. The proposed measure, named Christian Religiosity Revealed by Search, is built upon ten comparisons between religious and non-religious topics, and is shown to perform better than the frequently used Gallup Poll and World Values Survey religiosity scores in explaining some economic and political indicators.
ISSN:2211-4866
Comprende:Enthalten in: Review of religious research
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s13644-019-00379-w