Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Loek Halman and Ole Riis -- Series Editors’ Preface / Loek Halman -- Acknowledgments / Loek Halman and Ole Riis -- Figures and Tables / Loek Halman and Ole Riis -- Chapter One Contemporary European Discourses on Religion and Morality / Loek Halman and Ole Riis -- Chapter Two Religion and the Spirit of Capitalism in Modern Europe / Ole Riis -- Chapter Three Differential Patterns of Secularization in Europe: Exploring the Impact of Religion on Social Values / Loek Halman and Thorleif Pettersson -- Chapter Four Religion and the Family / Karel Dobbelaere , Josette Gevers , and Loek Halman -- Chapter Five Individual Religiosity, Religious Context and Values in Europe and North America / Michael Procter and Michael P. Hornsby-Smith -- Chapter Six Integration into Catholicism and Protestantism in Europe: The Impact on Moral and Political Values / Pierre Bréchon -- Chapter Seven Religion and Social Capital Revisited / Loek Halman and Thorleif Pettersson -- Chapter Eight Globalization and Patterns of Religious Belief Systems / Loek Halman and Thorleif Pettersson -- Chapter Nine Japanese Religiosity and Morals / Robert J. Kisala -- Appendix Tables Chapter 6 / Loek Halman and Ole Riis -- About the Authors / Loek Halman and Ole Riis.

The European Values Study is a large-scale, cross-national, and longitudinal survey research program on basic human values, initiated by the European Value Systems Study Group (EVSSG) in the late 1970s, at that time an informal grouping of academics. Now, it is carried on in the setting of a foundation, using the (abbreviated) name of the group European Values Study (EVS). The EVSSG aimed at designing and conducting a major empirical study of the moral and social values underlying European social and political institutions and governing conduct. A rich academic literature has now been created around the original survey, and numerous other works have made use of the findings.

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