Grace Riestra Claire Davie is a British sociologist, born in 1946, who serves as professor emerita of sociology at the University of Exeter. She is best known for her book Religion in Britain Since 1945: Believing Without Belonging, which introduced the influential concept of believing without belonging to describe the pattern, common in modern Britain and much of Europe, in which people continue to hold religious beliefs and identify with a religious tradition while rarely attending church or otherwise formally belonging to a religious institution.
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Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionCoined the phrase "believing without belonging" to describe religiosity and secularization in Britain 1 Notable WorkReligion in Britain Since 1945 1 Connections
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Davie coined believing without belonging to describe a pattern of religious institutions losing membership while private religious belief persisted.
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1. Wikipedia: Grace Davie
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born 1946
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1946-09-02
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British sociologist
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Grace Riestra Claire Davie
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she coined the phrase "believing without belonging" to describe religiosity and secularization in Britain
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Religion in Britain Since 1945 (1994)
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