Demography and Religion in the Last Thirty Years: a Content Analysis of Revista Brasileira de Estudos de População
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The objective of this paper was to do a content analysis of the scientific production regarding demography and religion, published by Revista Brasileira de Estudos de População - Rebep (Brazilian Journal of Population Studies), a periodical that belongs to Associação Brasileira de Estudos Populacionais (Brazilian Population Studies Association). The period under study goes from January 1984 to July 2014. Out of 567 texts (articles, research notes, points of view, and book reviews) published in the last 30 years, 47 were more closely related to religion/religiosity, either as the main topic, variable of interest, control variable, or relevant for the analysis. Written by 70 authors who belong to 42 different institutions, the 47 selected texts were grouped into nine themes (families, adolescents/youth, migration, indigenous people, sexual and reproductive health, mortality and health, politics, vital registration, and religion). The first two were the most frequent. In eleven of the texts, religion/religiosity was in the title. Twenty two of them used only quantitative data, eight used qualitative data, and only four combined both. Despite the fact that Brazilian censuses offer information about religious affiliation since 1940, it would be crucial to collect data on frequency of attendance to religious service as well.
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