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PhD Sociology University of Essex
Masters Sociology University of Essex
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According to Wikipedia, David Voas is a quantitative social scientist. He is currently Professor of Social Science and Head of the Department of Social Science at the UCL Institute of Education. He was previously Professor of Population Studies at the University of Essex and Simon Professor of Population Studies at the University of Manchester.

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Religion in Britain: Neither Believing nor Belonging (2005) (443)
The Rise and Fall of Fuzzy Fidelity in Europe (2008) (373)
Religious pluralism and participation: Why previous research is wrong (2002) (309)
Generations of Decline: Religious Change in 20th‐Century Britain (2006) (221)
Islam Moves West: Religious Change in the First and Second Generations (2012) (219)
Is the United States a Counterexample to the Secularization Thesis?1 (2016) (218)
An evaluation of the combinatorial optimisation approach to the creation of synthetic microdata (2000) (169)
Intermarriage and the demography of secularization. (2003) (116)
Evaluating Goodness-of-Fit Measures for Synthetic Microdata (2001) (107)
Conflicting Preferences: A Reason Fertility Tends to Be Too High or Too Low (2003) (103)
Research note: The 2001 census and christian identification in Britain (2004) (87)
The diversity of diversity: a critique of geodemographic classification (2001) (82)
The Emergence of Conspirituality (2011) (72)
The Scale of Dissimilarity: Concepts, Measurement and an Application to Socio‐Economic Variation Across England and Wales (2000) (68)
Three Puzzles of Non-religion in Britain (2012) (64)
Religion in Britain and the United States (2010) (64)
Secularization in Europe: religious change between and within birth cohorts (2011) (60)
Modernization and the gender gap in religiosity: Evidence from cross-national European surveys (2013) (59)
Is the United States a Counterexample to the Secularization Thesis? (2019) (50)
The Spiritual Revolution: Another false dawn for the sacred (2007) (49)
Immigrant generation, religiosity and civic engagement in Britain (2014) (45)
Measuring Religiosity Using Surveys: Survey Question Bank Topic Overview 4 (2011) (41)
Surveys of Behaviour, Beliefs and Affiliation: Micro-Quantitative (2007) (40)
Religious decline in Scotland: New evidence on timing and spatial patterns (2006) (38)
Vicarious Religion: An Examination and Critique (2010) (34)
The continuing secular transition (2007) (33)
‘A Divergence of Views: Attitude change and the religious crisis over homosexuality’ (2003) (32)
The Maintenance and Transformation of Ethnicity: Evidence on Mixed Partnerships in Britain (2009) (31)
Societal causes of infertility and population decline among the settled Fulani of North Cameroon. (1981) (31)
The Intergenerational Transmission of Churchgoing in England and Australia (2012) (31)
Measuring Spatial Concentration: The Use of Threshold Profiles (2003) (30)
Towards a Sociology of Attitudes (2014) (29)
Does Religion Belong in Population Studies? (2007) (28)
The Intergenerational Transmission of Religious Service Attendance (2012) (26)
Leaving home in Spain: When, where and why? (2002) (23)
Religious Toleration and Organisational Typologies (2007) (19)
Attitudes to evolution among Christians, Muslims and the Non-Religious in Britain: Differential effects of religious and educational factors (2018) (16)
Estimating the Jewish undercount in the 2001 Census: a comment on Graham and Waterman (2005) ‘Underenumeration of the Jewish Population in the UK 2001 Census’: Population, Space and Place 11: 89–102 (2007) (15)
The Resilience of the Nation-State: Religion and Polities in the Modern Era (2004) (15)
Even intense religiosity is declining in the United States: Comment (2018) (13)
Surveys of behaviour, beliefs and affiliation (2007) (13)
Sacred Canopies or Religious Markets? The Effect of County‐Level Religious Diversity on Later Changes in Religious Involvement (2020) (13)
The Artificial Society Analytics Platform (2020) (12)
Minority Integration in a Western City: An Agent-Based Modelling Approach (2019) (11)
The World’s Religions in Figures: An Introduction to International Religious Demography (2014) (11)
The Normalization of Non-religion: A Reply to James Lewis (2015) (9)
11. Secularization in Europe: An Analysis of Inter-Generational Religious Change (2014) (8)
Do Social Crises Cause Religious Revivals? What British Church Adherence Rates Show (2016) (8)
Explaining Change over Time in Religious Involvement (2016) (8)
Afterword: Some reflections on numbers in the study of religion (2014) (8)
Does Education Develop or Diminish Spirituality in Taiwan (2014) (8)
Psychological types and self-assessed leadership skills of clergy in the Church of England (2015) (7)
National Context, Parental Socialization, and the Varying Relationship Between Religious Belief and Practice (2020) (6)
Fertility and Faith: The Demographic Revolution and the Transformation of World Religions (2021) (5)
European Values Study 2008: Integrated Dataset (EVS 2008) (2011) (5)
Stress Levels among Anglican Clergy: The Beneficial Effects of Feeling Supported (2018) (5)
Value Liberalization or Consumption: Comment on Hirschle's Analysis of Ireland's Economic Boom and the Decline in Church Attendance (2010) (5)
Patterns of Inheritance of Spiritual Capital (2005) (4)
The Dawkins effect? Celebrity scientists, (non)religious publics and changed attitudes to evolution (2021) (4)
Is religion giving way to spirituality (2006) (3)
Introduction for Special Section: Attitudes: Ontology, Methodology, Impact (2014) (3)
Social Cohesion, social capital and the geography of religion in England (2007) (3)
The so-so construction of sociology. (2003) (3)
Psychological type theory, femininity and the appeal of Anglo-Catholicism: A study among Anglican clergymen in England (2020) (3)
British Religion in Numbers (2020) (3)
Religious involvement over the life course: problems of measurement and classification (2015) (2)
Religion: For life or just for Christmas? (2005) (2)
Response (The diversity of diversity (2001) (2)
Religion in British society (2008) (2)
Ordained but disdained: Women's work in the Church of England (2007) (2)
The alternative Bible : a narrative summary based on the King James Version : the Old Testament (1993) (2)
Linking the fertility and secular transitions (2022) (1)
The Trumpet Sounds Retreat: (2021) (1)
Is the secularization research programme progressing? Debate on Jörg Stolz’s article on Secularization theories in the 21st century: ideas, evidence, and problems (2020) (1)
Intentionality, Numerical Growth and the Rural Church (2017) (1)
THEINTERGENERATIONALTRANSMISSION OF RELIGIOUS SERVICEATTENDANCE (2012) (1)
Computational Simulation Is a Vital Resource for Navigating the COVID-19 Pandemic (2021) (1)
The nature and future of the gender gap in religiosity : Evidence from cross-national European surveys (2014) (1)
In the Course of a Lifetime: Tracing Religious Belief, Practice, and Change. By Michelle Dillon and Paul Wink (2008) (1)
Adapting Cohort-Component Methods to a Microsimulation: A case study (2022) (0)
Religion, religious experience and education in Taiwan (2013) (0)
Secularization Vindicated (2023) (0)
Alasdair Crockett and Richard O’Leary (Eds.): Patterns and Processes of Religious Change in Modern Industrial Societies—Europe and the United States (2008) (0)
The Intergenerational Transmission of Churchgoing in England and Australia (2011) (0)
Running head: FEMININITY AND THE APPEAL OF ANGLO-CATHOLICISM 1 (2020) (0)
The future of Europe: secular but not secularist; diverse but not divided (2013) (0)
Religion is in decline in the West, and America is no exception (2016) (0)
The Changing Psychological Type Profile and Psychological Temperament of Church of England Clergy (2020) (0)
Book Reviews (2009) (0)
Modernization and the gender gap in religiosity: Evidence from cross-national European surveys (2013) (0)
Religious and secular morality across Europe (2012) (0)
The Turn Toward Extraversion: The Changing Psychological Profile of Anglican Clergy (2019) (0)
Review: Post-Materialist Religion: Pagan Identities and Value Change in Modern Europe by Mika T. Lassander (2016) (0)
Robert Wuthnow, Inventing American Religion: Polls, Surveys, and the Tenuous Quest for a Nation’s Faith (2016) (0)
Measurements of religion (2015) (0)
Religion, Sociology of (2015) (0)
A Matter of Attitude: Homosexuality and Divisions in the Church (2004) (0)
Modeling Fuzzy Fidelity: Using Microsimulation to Explore Age, Period, and Cohort Effects in Secularization (2022) (0)
Journal of Contemporary Religion (2007) (0)
Review: Kelvin Randall, Evangelicals Etcetera: Conflict and Conviction in the Church of England's Parties (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005), 252 + xiii pp. £35/£15.99. ISBN 0—7546—5215—7 (hbk); 0—7546—5217—3 (pbk). DOI: 10.1177/1744136607074404 (2007) (0)

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