Young people and Religiosity

Dr Marion Burkimsher of the University of Geneva, has published a report on the age distribution of religiosity. She writes

" From a western perspective, we tend to assume that older people are more religious than younger people, and that people in general are less religious than they used to be. This study aims to give a considerably wider view of these questions by looking at comparable data from countries around the world. One of her results is the striking finding that in western European countries people do not become more religious with increasing age, as the figure shows for a 1960's cohort.

1960's cohort, evolution of attendance rates at Christian religious services (click to enlarge)

The report which is freely available from Dr Marion Burkimsher's personal website at http://drmarionb.free.fr/YoungPeopleReligiosity.pdf but can also be downloaded from this site here: Young people and religiosity.

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