Moral Pluralism in Contemporary Europe: Evidence from the Project Religious and Moral Pluralism (RAMP)
Modernization processes like specialization and the division of labor, secularization, differentiation, individualization, and more recently globalization, are often said to make mass public morality in the contemporary Western world increasingly heterogeneous. There is a noteworthy lack of well doc...
| Published in: | Research in the social scientific study of religion |
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| Authors: | ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2002
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Research in the social scientific study of religion
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| Further subjects: | B
History of religion studies
B Social sciences B Religionswissenschaften B Religion & Gesellschaft |
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| Summary: | Modernization processes like specialization and the division of labor, secularization, differentiation, individualization, and more recently globalization, are often said to make mass public morality in the contemporary Western world increasingly heterogeneous. There is a noteworthy lack of well documented empirical evidence for such growing pluralism. This article explores the data from the project on Religious and Moral Pluralism for such evidence. We have investigated three kinds of moral pluralism: moral issue pluralism, moral principle pluralism and generalized moral pluralism. Our theoretical assumptions were that the more secularized and the more economically advanced countries would demonstrate higher levels of these kinds of moral pluralism. Furthermore, the younger, the better educated, and the less church involved people were also expected to demonstrate higher levels of such kinds of pluralism. In general, the assumptions were confirmed, although the country and group differences were only modest. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Research in the social scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004496347_012 |