Correlations between values concerning the common good and religiosity

Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster

Start date of doctoral examination procedure: 01/11/2019

End date of doctoral examination procedure: 01/06/2023

Name of the doctoral candidate: Porada, Chiara

Doctoral subject: Soziologie

Doctoral degree: Dr. phil.

Awarded by: Department 06 - Education and Social Studies

Values are fundamental, internalised and relatively stable convictions, standards or ideals that serve the individual as an orientation for action or guideline for justifying and evaluating situations. For centuries, especially religion formed their foundation. Today, this connection between religion or religiosity and values is no longer self-evident. On the one hand, religion is losing its monopoly on values in the course of a loss of importance of the churches, secularisation tendencies and the privatisation and pluralisation of religiosity. On the other hand, a constant change in values and especially the value shift of the 1970s and 1980s are creating 'new', possibly more secular values. These aspects are interrelated and effect a diversity of value orientations. Can structures be found in this diversity to show how religiosity and values are connected today, or are they completely disconnected? I examine this question based on the three common good values of helpfulness, tolerance and ecological sustainability. Furthermore, I take into account the plurality of religious orientations by including not only traditional indicators such as denomination or frequency of church attendance but also different intensities of religiosity, individual and institutional religiosity as well as spirituality and different forms of non-religion. The core of this dissertation is the analysis of quantitative data, which were collected within the context of the Templeton project "The Transmission of Religion Across Generations".