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Meaning Making and Death in a Secular Society: A Dutch Survey Study

Meaning Making and Death in a Secular Society: A Dutch Survey Study © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2010 DOI: 10.1163/157361210X532059 Archive for the Psychology of Religion 32 (2010) 363-373 brill.nl/arp Meaning Making and Death in a Secular Society: A Dutch Survey Study Joanna Wojtkowiak, a) Bastiaan T. Rutjens, b) and Eric Venbrux a) a) Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands E-mail: J.Wojtkowiak@rs.ru.nl b) University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Received: 23 February 2010; revised: 23 July 2010; accepted: 9 August 2010 Abstract This article focuses on the relation between death and religion in a secularized society. In the Netherlands, traditional religious membership has declined significantly together with tradi- tional belief systems. This study investigates the relation between the experience of death and religious affiliation (unaffiliated, Catholic, and Protestant) in relation to meaning making. Parts of a nationwide survey study (n = 1212) are analyzed in order to investigate different forms of meaning making (Christian meaning, personal meaning, and denial of meaning). The results show that the experience of the death of a loved one is related to personal meaning giving only for Protestant participants. Moreover, religiously unaffiliated, Catholics and Protestants differ significantly in different ways of meaning making. In the discussions the authors focus on the different effects of different religious groups http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Archive for the Psychology of Religion Brill

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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2010 DOI: 10.1163/157361210X532059 Archive for the Psychology of Religion 32 (2010) 363-373 brill.nl/arp Meaning Making and Death in a Secular Society: A Dutch Survey Study Joanna Wojtkowiak, a) Bastiaan T. Rutjens, b) and Eric Venbrux a) a) Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands E-mail: J.Wojtkowiak@rs.ru.nl b) University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Received: 23 February 2010; revised: 23 July 2010; accepted: 9 August 2010 Abstract This article focuses on the relation between death and religion in a secularized society. In the Netherlands, traditional religious membership has declined significantly together with tradi- tional belief systems. This study investigates the relation between the experience of death and religious affiliation (unaffiliated, Catholic, and Protestant) in relation to meaning making. Parts of a nationwide survey study (n = 1212) are analyzed in order to investigate different forms of meaning making (Christian meaning, personal meaning, and denial of meaning). The results show that the experience of the death of a loved one is related to personal meaning giving only for Protestant participants. Moreover, religiously unaffiliated, Catholics and Protestants differ significantly in different ways of meaning making. In the discussions the authors focus on the different effects of different religious groups

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Published: Jan 1, 2010

Keywords: death; religious affiliation; meaning making; secular society; The Netherlands

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