Declining Religious Authority? Confidence in the Leaders of Religious Organizations, 1973–2010

One view of secularization is that it can be conceived of as declining religious authority. Although studies conducted in the 1990s suggested that confidence in the leaders of religious organizations—a promising indicator of religious authority—decreased in the 1970s and 1980s, research has not exam...

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Main Author: Hoffmann, John P. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage Publications 2013
In: Review of religious research
Year: 2013, Volume: 55, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-25
Further subjects:B Trend data
B Declining religious authority
B Secularization
B Confidence in religious organizations
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