RT Article
T1 Religion Mattered: Religious Differences in Switzerland and Their Impact on Demographic Behaviour (End of the 18th Century to the Middle of the 20th Century)
JF Historical social research
VO 42
IS 2
SP 23
OP 58
A1 Head-König, Anne-Lise
LA English
PB GESIS
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1738431460
AB The impact of the two main religions on demographic behaviour until the middle of the 20th century is striking and, depending on religious affiliation, remarkable differences can be observed with regard to celibacy, fertility and size of family. In Catholic regions all three were much higher at the end of the 18th century already. As from the middle of the 19th century migration increased considerably to Protestant towns and industrialised regions from within the country and from abroad and this included a large number of Catholics. Migration affected both the migrant and the indigenous populations. On the one hand those immigrants coming from regions practising little or no birth control adopted the family limitation characteristic of the local population after a period of adjustment and, on the other hand, immigrants practicing family limitation influenced the conservative agrarian Catholic population that received them. Nevertheless, important differences existed within each main religion and there was also some notable atypical demographic behaviour according to affiliation within Protestantism, as seen in Pietism, and to a certain extent, too, within the Catholic population, depending on their political views. The erosion both of the “State” religion and of the influence of the Catholic Church as from the end of the 19th century contributed above all in urban and industrialised contexts to an increase in the proportion of mixed marriages and to a process of secularisation which resulted in a significant reduction in fertility.
K1 19. Jahrhundert
K1 20. Jahrhundert
K1 Bevölkerungsentwicklung
K1 Calvinism
K1 Calvinismus
K1 Catholicism
K1 Familiengröße
K1 Familienplanung
K1 Fruchtbarkeit
K1 Heirat
K1 Katholizismus
K1 Kinderzahl
K1 Migration
K1 Mischehe
K1 Pietismus
K1 Protestantism
K1 Protestantismus
K1 Religionszugehörigkeit
K1 Säkularisierung
K1 Säugling
K1 Schweiz
K1 Sterblichkeit
K1 Switzerland
K1 baby
K1 Family Planning
K1 Family size
K1 Fertility
K1 Intermarriage
K1 Mortality
K1 Nineteenth Century
K1 number of children
K1 Pietism
K1 population development
K1 regional difference
K1 regionaler Unterschied
K1 Religiöse Faktoren
K1 Religious Affiliation
K1 Religious factors
K1 Secularization
K1 Twentieth Century
K1 Wedding
DO 10.12759/hsr.42.2017.2.23-58