Сross-country Analysis of Religiosity During the Pandemic

Student: Tishchenko Dmitry

Faculty: Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences

Educational Programme: Modern Social Analysis (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2024

According to Inglehart's “evolutionary theory of modernization”, if survival of the society is not threatened, people's values change across generations and the values of self-expression become the most sought after. However, crises and shocks can cause values to change more rapidly. One of the biggest shocks in recent years is the COVID-19 pandemic, which has become a challenge for the whole world. This master's thesis analyzes the changing levels of religiosity in 15 countries before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. A multilevel analysis was used, which was conducted on data from the World Value Survey (before the pandemic), European Social Survey (before the pandemic), and Values in Crisis (during the pandemic).

Student Theses at HSE must be completed in accordance with the University Rules and regulations specified by each educational programme.

Summaries of all theses must be published and made freely available on the HSE website.

The full text of a thesis can be published in open access on the HSE website only if the authoring student (copyright holder) agrees, or, if the thesis was written by a team of students, if all the co-authors (copyright holders) agree. After a thesis is published on the HSE website, it obtains the status of an online publication.

Student theses are objects of copyright and their use is subject to limitations in accordance with the Russian Federation’s law on intellectual property.

In the event that a thesis is quoted or otherwise used, reference to the author’s name and the source of quotation is required.

Search all student theses