Measuring Christian Religiosity by Google Trends
This work proposes a new method to construct a measure of religiosity by utilizing information obtained from Google Trends. The proposed measure, named Christian Religiosity Revealed by Search, is built upon ten comparisons between religious and non-religious topics, and is shown to perform better t...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Sage Publications
[2019]
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In: |
Review of religious research
Year: 2019, Volume: 61, Issue: 3, Pages: 235-257 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Christianity
/ Religiosity
/ Measurability
/ Google
/ Information retrieval
/ World Values Survey
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RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AE Psychology of religion CB Christian life; spirituality |
Further subjects: | B
Google Trends
B Christianity B Religiosity |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Resolving-System) |
Summary: | This work proposes a new method to construct a measure of religiosity by utilizing information obtained from Google Trends. The proposed measure, named Christian Religiosity Revealed by Search, is built upon ten comparisons between religious and non-religious topics, and is shown to perform better than the frequently used Gallup Poll and World Values Survey religiosity scores in explaining some economic and political indicators. |
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ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s13644-019-00379-w |