Churchgoing in Edinburgh and Leith, 1836–2016: The Statistical Record
In the ongoing scholarly debate about the secularisation of Scottish (and British) society, churchgoing is one of the few metrics for which longitudinal data exist, albeit fragmentarily. This article assembles and analyses the evidence about levels of church attendance in Scotland’s capital (and sec...
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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) |
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2024
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Scottish church history
Año: 2024, Volumen: 53, Número: 2, Páginas: 79-102 |
| Clasificaciones IxTheo: | AD Sociología de la religión KAH Edad Moderna KAJ Época contemporánea KBF Islas Británicas RB Ministerio eclesiástico |
| Otras palabras clave: | B
Scotland
B Secularisation B Edinburgh B Leith B Churchgoing B Church censuses |
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| Sumario: | In the ongoing scholarly debate about the secularisation of Scottish (and British) society, churchgoing is one of the few metrics for which longitudinal data exist, albeit fragmentarily. This article assembles and analyses the evidence about levels of church attendance in Scotland’s capital (and second largest) city during the nineteenth to early twenty-first centuries. It draws upon quantitative data (nine religious censuses, with varying methodologies, in 1836, 1851, 1882 and between 1980 and 2016) and qualitative sources (chiefly local newspapers). Relative to population, churchgoing in Edinburgh and Leith appears to have declined continuously since the mid-nineteenth century, in-person attendance standing at an estimated 3.59% of the city’s residents on an average Sunday in 2022-3, somewhat lower than in Glasgow. Possible explanations for this decrease are briefly explored. |
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| ISSN: | 2516-6301 |
| Obras secundarias: | Enthalten in: Scottish church history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3366/sch.2024.0119 |
