Demografia e educação e comunicação como fenômenos de secularização? Correlação entre os índices de segurança existencial e de religiosidade na Europa

This research seeks to answer two fundamental arguments: the idea that we have reached a deadlock in the secularization debate, and that we need new theoretical and empirical approaches to understand the effects of modernity’s processes on religion. In order to do this and inspired by the assumptions of one of the most current, prominent and systematized theories of secularization –existential security –we propose the creation of an index of existential security that can be correlated with a measure of individual religiosity. We conclude that, for the set of selected European countries and for the time period considered (1999-2015), the secularization theory, which asserts that more existentially secure societies are less religious, still has empirical validity.