Gutenberg Open Science: A short scale for measuring political secularism

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dc.contributor.author	Arzheimer, Kai	-
dc.date.accessioned	2023-05-04T13:17:28Z	-
dc.date.available	2023-05-04T13:17:28Z	-
dc.date.issued	2022	-
dc.identifier.uri	https://openscience.ub.uni-mainz.de/handle/20.500.12030/8845	-
dc.description.abstract	As religiousness is declining across democracies, scientific interest in secular orientations and their political implications is growing. One specific and particularly important aspect of secular attitudes is political secularism. Political secularism is not merely the absence of religiousness, but rather a world view which holds that religious beliefs should play no role in politics. While there are hundreds of survey instruments that measure the strength and content of religiousness, there is no comparable measure that taps into political secularism. In this research note, I briefly review the concept of political secularism and present a cluster of items which target it. Utilizing data from four large population representative samples taken from the eastern and western states of Germany, I use confirmatory factor analysis to show that these items form a short but internally consistent scale. This scale also displays convergent and discriminant validity. It may be readily used in future surveys.	en_GB
dc.language.iso	eng	de
dc.rights	CC BY	*
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	*
dc.subject.ddc	200 Religion	de_DE
dc.subject.ddc	200 Religion	en_GB
dc.subject.ddc	320 Politik	de_DE
dc.subject.ddc	320 Political science	en_GB
dc.title	A short scale for measuring political secularism	en_GB
dc.type	Zeitschriftenaufsatz	de
dc.identifier.doi	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-8829	-
jgu.type.contenttype	Scientific article	de
jgu.type.dinitype	article	en_GB
jgu.type.version	Published version	de
jgu.type.resource	Text	de
jgu.organisation.department	FB 02 Sozialwiss., Medien u. Sport	de
jgu.organisation.number	7910	-
jgu.organisation.name	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz	-
jgu.rights.accessrights	openAccess	-
jgu.journal.title	Politics and Religion	de
jgu.journal.volume	15	de
jgu.journal.issue	4	de
jgu.pages.start	827	de
jgu.pages.end	840	de
jgu.publisher.year	2022	-
jgu.publisher.name	Cambridge University Press	de
jgu.publisher.place	Cambridge	de
jgu.publisher.issn	1755-0491	de
jgu.organisation.place	Mainz	-
jgu.subject.ddccode	200	de
jgu.subject.ddccode	320	de
jgu.publisher.doi	10.1017/S1755048322000104	de
jgu.organisation.ror	https://ror.org/023b0x485	-
jgu.subject.dfg	Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften	de
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