Essays about: "church attendance"
Found 5 essays containing the words church attendance.
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1. Lund University Students, Christianity and Lund Cathedral
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologiAbstract : Lund Cathedral, founded in the beginning of the 12th century, is part of the history of Sweden, being visited by people of different cultural and religious backgrounds. Although its popularity among tourists, said institution is facing difficulties to attract young Swedes to their activities, among them, Swedish students of Lund University. READ MORE
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2. Hard Times on Main Street, High Times on Church Street: Religious Activity and the State of the Economy
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomiAbstract : This paper examines the relationship between the business cycle and religious activity. Using Swedish and Norwegian data on Protestant denomination membership, and data on religious service attendance in the Church of Sweden, we test if religious activity is positively affected by an economic crisis or recession. READ MORE
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3. Does religious similarity influence the direction of trade? : Evidence from US bilateral trade with other 168 countries
University essay from Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaperAbstract : Despite interest in the influence of religion on economic activity by early economists like Adam Smith, modern economists have done little research on the subject. In light of the apparent religious fervour in many parts of the global economy, economists' seeming lack of interest in studying how religious cultures enhance or retard the globalization of economic activity is especially surprising. READ MORE
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4. Modeling church services supply and performance, using geographically weighted regression
University essay from Ämnesavdelningen för samhällsbyggnadAbstract : The objective of this study is to develop a multiple linear regression model that measures the relationship between the church services supply and the attendance to the services in the Uppsala diocese, Church of Sweden. By reviewing previous models and examining the nature of data available, two research questions were introduced, namely, the problem of omitted variables and the problem of spatial autocorrelation. READ MORE
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5. "Anders Andersson hade eld i sin tjärdal" : en analys av Jonas Åströms dagböcker 1868-1891
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Forest Ecology and ManagementAbstract : "Anders Andersson had a fire in his tar-kiln ". Analysis of Jonas Åström 's peasant-diary 1868-1891 Peasant diaries are notes written by farmers, crofters and other people connected with small-scale agriculture. READ MORE
