Kerkelijke betrokkenheid in de 21ste eeuw

Auteurs

  • Joris Kregting Kaski, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
  • Charlotte Sederel Kaski, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54195/RS.12669

Samenvatting

Due to modernization, individualization and de-institutionalization, there has been a long period of decline in church membership rates in the Netherlands. In this article based on both survey research and church administrations, several levels of involvement are explored within church membership. Nowadays, 40% of the Dutch population is an initiated member of a Christian church. Almost 30% of the Dutch population considers themselves as a member of a church and almost 10% attends church on a regular basis. The participating church members have, besides their religious socialization, social and intrinsic motives to belong to their church. For all other members, church involvement seems to be an inheritance of their parents and almost nothing more than that. This has strong implications for the future while we expect that these large groups of non-participating members will not pass their church involvement on to next generations. Therefore church membership rates on all levels of involvement are expected to drop further.

Biografieën auteurs

Joris Kregting, Kaski, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen

Joris Kregting is als godsdienstsocioloog werkzaam bij het Kaski (onderdeel van de Faculteit Filosofie, Theologie en Religiewetenschappen van de Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

Charlotte Sederel, Kaski, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen

Charlotte Sederel studeert sociologie aan de Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen en is tot medio 2013 stagiaire bij het Kaski.

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Gepubliceerd

01-05-2013

Citeerhulp

Kregting, J., & Sederel, C. (2013). Kerkelijke betrokkenheid in de 21ste eeuw. Religie &Amp; Samenleving, 8(1), 41–62. https://doi.org/10.54195/RS.12669
Received 2022-08-06
Published 2013-05-01