A three-state dynamical model for religious affiliation

M McCartney; DH Glass

doi:10.1016/j.physa.2014.09.052

A three-state dynamical model for religious affiliation

M McCartney, DH Glass

John Templeton Foundation

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Abstract

In the last century the western world has seen a rapid increase in the number of people describing themselves as affiliated with no religious group. We construct a set of models using coupled differential equations in which members of a society can be in one of three groups; religiously committed, religiously affiliated or religiously not affiliated. These models are then used to analyse post World War II census data for Northern Ireland.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	145-152
Number of pages	8
Journal	Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
Volume	419
Early online date	15 Oct 2014
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2014.09.052
Publication status	Published (in print/issue) - 1 Feb 2015

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Religion
Group behaviour
Nonlinear models

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