Sacred canopies or religious markets? The effect of county-level religious diversity on later changes in religious involvement

• Main Authors: Olson, Daniel V. A., Marshall, Joey, Jung, Jong Hyun, Voas, David
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Social sciences::Sociology; Religion; Secularization Theory
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/143221
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Secularization theories, such as Berger's Sacred Canopy argument, hold that religious diversity leads to a decline in religious participation. Religious market models (e.g., Finke and Stark) argue the opposite. Voas, Olson, and Crockett found that nearly all of the vast research exploring this...