Untitled Page 1 Page 2 While Ireland was once perceived as being characterised by
conservatism, Catholicism and cultural isolation, by the first decades of the twenty-first century …

Western Europe is experiencing growing levels of political polarization between parties of
the New Left and the Far Right. The authors argue that this antagonism reflects the …

Building on research on cultural threat‐induced polarization, we investigate the effect of the
individual‐level salience of cultural threats on polarization between social liberals and …

Background The thesis of religious decline, central to secularization theory, has become
massively contested among social-scientific students of religion. Its critics observe not so …

The protection and regulation of religious expression present complex challenges.
Blasphemy laws, which criminalize acts deemed disrespectful to religious beliefs, have been …

This article examines nationally representative survey data from the Netherlands, collected
in 2015 (N= 2,197) to study whether the 'spiritual but not religious' embrace New Age …

This article tests two contrasting hypotheses about changes in the electoral relevance of
moral traditionalism–progressiveness, which pertains to attitudes toward matters of …

In the Shadow of Secularization Theory: Neglected Issues in the Social-Scientific Study of
Spirituality 1 In the Shadow of Secularization Theory: Neglected Issues in the Social-Scientific …

This paper examines nationally representative survey data from the Netherlands collected in
2015 (N= 2,197) to study whether the 'spiritual but not religious' embrace New Age …

This project studies transformations of cultural politics in Western Europe in the last four
decades. Whereas the'new'cultural cleavage is typically viewed as pitting broadly culturally …