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ArticleScientific reports2025

Religious centrality across 22 countries.

Robert D Woodberry, Kathryn A Johnson, Brendan Case, Matt Bradshaw, Tyler J VanderWeele, Byron R Johnson

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Article in Scientific reports, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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6 authors.

Robert D WoodberryInstitute for Studies of Religion, Baylor University, One Bear Place #97326, Waco, TX, 76798-7326, USA. Robert_Woodberry@baylor.edu.
Kathryn A JohnsonPsychology Department, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
Brendan CaseThe Human Flourishing Program, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Matt BradshawInstitute for Studies of Religion, Baylor University, One Bear Place #97326, Waco, TX, 76798-7326, USA.
Tyler J VanderWeeleThe Human Flourishing Program, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Byron R JohnsonInstitute for Studies of Religion, Baylor University, One Bear Place #97326, Waco, TX, 76798-7326, USA.

Funding

Fetzer Institute #4354John Templeton Foundation #61665Templeton Religion Trust #1308TWCF #0605
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Religious Centrality has been widely studied in Europe and North America and is generally associated with better psychological and social outcomes. Religious centrality is often assessed as a measure of intrinsic religiosity (IR)-religion as one's guiding approach to life - and has been widely validated in societies around the world. However, most studies of religious centrality/IR are cross-sectional and use samples from 'Western' societies or samples from single non-European societies. Moreover, most samples are not nationally representative. Systematic comparisons are difficult because the samples, measures, and procedures vary between studies. This article examines religious centrality across 22 nationally representative samples from religiously diverse countries from the 1

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ReligionAdultCross-Sectional StudiesEuropeFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedNorth AmericaComparative religionHuman flourishingReligious centralitySecularization theory

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PMID40307406
PMCPMC12043990

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