Swiss Metadatabase of Religious Affiliation in Europe

The Swiss Metadatabase of Religious Affiliation in Europe ( SMRE ) is a religious-sociological metadatabase in which various data sets on religious affiliation for all European countries were collected, weighted, their results critically evaluated and then summarized.

The project to create the database, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, was carried out at the University of Lucerne under the direction of Antonius Liedhegener and Anastas Odermatt from 2015 to 2018. The aim was to create a database in which the various available data are recorded on a country-specific basis, analyzed with regard to their origin, structure and quality, and reliable data on the religious affiliation of the population of Europe is presented on this database. During the project period, it was made possible for data sets that have not yet been recorded to be contributed by researchers from different countries. Sociological religion data are widely scattered on the one hand and in different quality on the other. Data sets were recorded from 2006 to 2015.

Since in some European countries religious affiliation is no longer recorded in censuses , in some cases only data from surveys is available. All data are "technically / didactically unusually well prepared".

literature

• Antonius Liedhegener , Anastas Odermatt : Religious Affiliation in Europe - Empirical. The "Swiss Metadatabase of Religious Affiliation in Europe" (SMRE) . In: Kurt Appel , Isabella Guanzini , Angelika Walser (editor): Europe with or without religion? The contribution of religion to present and future Europe . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014. ISBN 3847003208 . Pp. 121-170.

Web links

• Swiss Metadatabase of Religious Affiliation in Europe

Remarks

1. ↑ Summary of the project at the University of Lucerne
2. ↑ Detlef Pollack , Volkhard Krech , Olaf Müller, Markus Hero (editor): Handbuch Religionssoziologie . Springer 2018. ISBN 3531189247 , p. 291 f.
3. ^ Swiss Metadatabase of Religious Affiliation in Europe
4. ^ Swiss Metadatabase of Religious Affiliation in Europe (SMRE) at the Weltanschauungen research group in Germany