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Religious Mobility in the Uk

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  • Richard Breen
  • Bernadette C. Hayes

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For the last 30 years, the question of religious mobility has generated increasing division and controversy among social scientists. This is particularly the case among sociologists of religion, where an on‐going debate concerning the expected growth in conservative Protestant churches at the expense of their more liberal colleagues has dominated the literature. Using recent data from both Great Britain and Northern Ireland and employing a technique of analysis not hitherto adopted in the religious mobility literature, this paper examines the nature and extent of religious mobility within the UK. The results suggest that, whereas the majority of church members never change their religion of origin, for the religiously mobile, religious disaffiliation is by far the most common outcome.

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  • Richard Breen & Bernadette C. Hayes, 1996. "Religious Mobility in the Uk," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, Royal Statistical Society, vol. 159(3), pages 493-504, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jorssa:v:159:y:1996:i:3:p:493-504
    DOI: 10.2307/2983327
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    1. Bayo Lawal, 2008. "On fitting the conditional difference asymmetry models to square contingency tables with nominal categories," Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 42(5), pages 605-612, October.
    2. Ian Smith & John Sawkins, 2003. "The economics of regional variation in religious attendance," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 35(14), pages 1577-1588.

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