An increase in religiosity followed.

Religiosity European countries have experienced a decline in church membership and church attendance.

Thomas and Cornwall (1990) state that the growing body of research is focused towards martial stratification and religiosity findings indicate that the ratio of higher religiosity with in marriage indicate a happier and stable partnership.

Religion s largest growth is in China. Indeed, the religiosity of China is worth reflecting on.

Many Turks who go to the US for the first time are puzzled, indeed, by its religiosity .

I see this very plainly spending so much time in Jerusalem, where East and West there is an emphatic increase in religiosity.

For example, Americans may define religiosity differently than Middle Easterners, with perhaps a weaker attachment to religious beliefs than is true in Islamic countries.

Strikingly, though, its fertility rate is still nearly twice as high (2.3 children per woman) as that in Spain or Italy, despite comparable religiosity figures.

In post conflict societies like Croatia, where a hyper nationalism and religiosity have created an environment unbearable for anyone who might be considered a social outcast.

Blogger Evgeny Schultz contextualized the recent events in the Middle East amid growing religiosity in Russia in a post titled , Religion on the March In Libya and Russia

Sociologists of religion have long argued that in a monolithic religious environment, or when religious institutions are closely tied to the state, the overall religiosity of the public declines.

In the article entitled Religion, religiosity and craftsmen, Cheikh criticised his country s discriminatory caste system, linking it to what he identified as similar practices from the lifetime of Prophet Muhammad.

We traveled high into the paramo, and as we crested the hills, we realized that the men were interpreting every single bump on the landscape in terms of their own intense religiosity.

To be sure, in all four countries, religiosity is widespread, with more than 90 of respondents collectively reporting that they believe in God, in life after death, and in heaven and hell.

But the gap in self defined religiosity between Saudis, on the one hand, and Iranians, Jordanians, and Egyptians, on the other, is so great that it challenges the prevalent perception of Saudi Arabia as a highly conservative and religious society.

And it is an arresting fact that right across the board, in every single one of the major world faiths, compassion the ability to feel with the other in the way we've been thinking about this evening is not only the test of any true religiosity, it is also what will bring us into the presence of what Jews, Christians and Muslims call God or the Divine.