Religiosity Decline in Europe: Age, Generation, and the Mediating Role of Shifting Human Values.

Our results confirm a pronounced trend of religiosity decline and explain this process by changes in personal values.

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We demonstrate that starting with the generation born before 1928, there is a clear trend of decreasing emphasis on conservation values, and increasing emphasis on openness to change, responsible for the reduction in religiosity in Europeans.

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