Entry:

Warner, R. Stephen, "Work in Progress Toward a New Paradigm for the Sociological Study of Religion in the United States," American Journal of Sociology, 98 (March, 1993), 1044-93.


Abstract:

The author reviews recent research on religion and discusses a change in paradigm in sociologists' study of religion. Religion is viewed not as something which is primordially rooted, but as something which is available in a "marketplace of ideas."

GSS Years:

1972-1991

Other Data Sets:

Gallup 1988, 1990

GSS Codebook Variables referenced by document:

Variable Name

Variable Label

 
 
ATTEND

HOW OFTEN R ATTENDS RELIGIOUS SERVICES

GOD

RS CONFIDENCE IN THE EXISTENCE OF GOD

POSTLIFE

BELIEF IN LIFE AFTER DEATH

MEMCHURH

MEMBERSHIP IN CHURCH GROUP

PRAY

HOW OFTEN DOES R PRAY