Autori
Dalla Zuanna, Giampiero
Castegnaro, Alessandro

Titolo
Studiare la pratica religiosa: differenze tra rilevazione diretta e dichiarazione degli intervistati sulla frequenza alla messa
Periodico
Polis
Anno: 2006 - Volume: 20 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 85 - Pagina finale: 112

Over the last 40 years, half of all Italians interviewed in sample sur-veys have stated that they go mass at least once a month. A comparison between a 2004-05 survey and a direct counts performed in the churches of the Venice patriarchate (around four hundred thousand residents of Northeastern Italy) suggests that surveys strongly overestimate church at-tendance (both regular and occasional). This may be due mainly to three causes: a stronger tendency among less educated religious individuals to participate willingly in surveys about religion (i.e., sample bias); the de-sire - shared by many low frequenters - to self-represent themselves as coherently religious people; differences in the interpretation of the mean-ing of questions on mass attendance (while interviewers and researchers intend to record a behaviour, interviewees adapt their answers to their at-titude on religion). The consequences of these hypotheses on some as-pects of research on religion in Italy are discussed. If the results of the study carried out in Venice could be extended to Italy as a whole, the idea of a strong and persisting proximity between Italians, the catholic church and religion would have to be reconsidered.



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