After Secularization: Changing religious values between generations

The study focuses religiosity in an extremely secular society: the case of Sweden. It examines secularization at three levels: societal, organizational, and individual level. The main data are surveys of the adult Swedish population 1986-2008 and official statistics collected by Statistics Sweden and Church of Sweden from 1920 to present. The result shows that people born after 1960 express a stronger interest in religion than people born in the 1940s and 1950s. However, this is a psychological interest. Between these generations, there is no report of changed religious behavior.