HON498_Fall 2024_Moon Library Instruction_Aiken: Margaret

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures, Tables and Maps -- 1 Introduction -- 1 Why the Need to Study Insecurity and Religiosity? -- 2 A Guide for This Book -- 3 Methodology and Appendices -- 2 The Broad Frame of Secularization Theory -- 1 The Sociological Roots of Secularization Theory -- 2 Alternative Approaches -- 3 The Post-secularism -- 4 Modernity and Modernizations: How to Simplify the Complex -- 5 One Secularization, More Secularizations -- 6 Different Levels of Interpretation -- 7 Which Secularization? -- 3 Insecurity Theory in Sociological Literature -- 1 The Sociological Roots of Insecurity Theory -- 2 Insecurity Theory as a Macro-theory to Explain Religious Decline -- 3 Insecurity Theory as a Micro-theory to Explain Religious Change -- 3.1 Religiosity as a Social Buffer -- 3.2 Religiosity as an Economic Buffer -- 3.3 Religiosity as a Psychological or Cognitive Buffer -- 4 Religious Coping and Religious Resources -- 4 A Look at the World: The Empirical Bases of Insecurity Theory -- 1 Towards a More Robust Exploration -- 2 Steps in Modernization -- 5 Exploring Relations: Does Insecurity Matter? -- 1 Are Religious People Happier? -- 2 Does Religiosity Mitigate Losses in Life-satisfaction? -- 3 Are Insecure People More Likely to Be Religious? -- 4 Disentangling the Mechanisms: One Insecurity, More Insecurities -- 6 Bringing Back Individuals: Do Negative Events Foster Religiosity? -- 1 A Longitudinal Panel Study for Germany and the United Kingdom -- 2 Testing the Mechanisms of Individual Change -- 3 The (Non) Effect of Life-threatening Events -- 7 Moving into the Longitudinal: Changes in Insecurity and Secularization -- 1 Towards a Model for Explaining Religious Change -- 2 Conceptualizing Insecurity and Its Effect on Religiosity -- 3 Longitudinal Argumentations and Cross-sectional Data -- 4 Insecurity Theory: More Static Than Dynamic -- 8 Insecurity and Religious Change: Facts, Facets and Notes of Caution.

1 Europe as Exception or Example? -- 2 Religious Evolution in Asia, Africa and South America -- 2.1 Asia -- 2.2 Africa -- 2.3 South America -- 3 Same Path, Different Positions -- 9 Conclusions: The Triggering Role of Insecurity -- 1 Insecurity and Religious Decline: What Do We Know and What Should We Know? -- 2 From Observation to Understanding -- 3 Final Remarks -- Appendix 1: Studying Religion with Quantitative Methods: A Toolbox -- 1 Globalization of Surveys -- 2 Individual and Aggregate Relations -- Reasoning Multilevel -- 3 Causality and Associations -- 4 Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Relations -- 5 Multidimensionality -- Appendix 2: Data, Methods and Tables -- 1 The Surveys -- 2 The Techniques -- 3 The Tables -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Thematic Index.