How secularized is Germany? Cohort and comparative perspectives1

Social Compass

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 111-126

  Wolf, Christof ^a  

^a GESIS LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Church; Germany; Individual religiosity; Secularization

Indexed keywords

EID: 43349101239     PISSN: 00377686     EISSN: 14617404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0037768608089733     Document Type: Article

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