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  • Over the last decennia, the position of the Church and religion in Western societies has become less central to social, cultural and public life. On top of structural processes of secularization, the Catholic Church has, more recently, faced painful moments of deep crisis because of child sexual abuse scandals. This contribution investigates how the child abuse scandal involving Roger Vangheluwe (the bishop of Bruges), has affected institutional trust in the Catholic Church in Belgium. To do this, we analyse panel data from EVS wave 4 (2009) and a follow-up survey among the same respondents in 2010. This panel design -with the child abuse scandal as a natural experiment in between the two measurements- allows us to study conjunctural changes in trust in the Church. Our results indicate that the loss of trust in the church-as-institution is especially outspoken among the religiously more involved persons. Those who are convinced that the church authorities did not fulfill their role as ‘guardians of trust’ in dealing with the pedophilia cases report the strongest decrease in trust. These results are illustrative of churchgoers’ disappointment with the behavior of priests and indignation about the improper functioning of church hierarchies. (xsd:string)
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  • The Impact of the Child Abuse Scandals on Trust in the Church: Empirical Evidence from Belgium (xsd:string)
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  • Reflections on European Values: Honouring Loek Halman's contribution to the European Values Study (xsd:string)
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  • In Reflections on European Values: Honouring Loek Halman's contribution to the European Values Study, edited by Luijkx, Ruud and Reeskens, Tim and Sieben, Inge, 208-221, Open Press TiU, 2022 (xsd:string)
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