Many surveys of respondents from multiple countries or subnational regions have now been
fielded on multiple occasions. Social scientists are regularly using multilevel models to …

Corruption, in both the developing and the developed world, has been studied in many
disciplines, especially economics and politics, but there is considerable scope for a …

This article argues that quantitative secularization research has made important progress in
the last 20 years in seven areas. We have gained knowledge of how religion and religiosity …

This paper provides an overview over the application of mixed models (multilevel models) to
comparative survey data where the context units of interest are countries. Such analyses …

Economic development and increases in material security have been suggested as primary
causes of secularization in the West. However, the relationship between economic insecurity …

Religious change continues to be a controversial topic that involves both theoretical and
methodological issues. As to the European context, the main dispute is between …

Multilevel models with persons nested in countries are increasingly popular in cross-country
research. Recently, social scientists have started to analyze data with a three-level structure …

Patterns of religiosity among both settled and migrant populations have been the subject of
intense, and often conflicting, scholarly debate. In Europe, most analysis of migrant …

Comprehensive and engaging, this textbook introduces students not only to foundational
sociological work, but also to insights from contemporary sociological theory and research …

Nothing puzzles sociologists of religion more than the reasons and the patterns behind
religious change. In the literature on secularization processes, it is broadly accepted that …