– It tells me that we live in a good and safe society. Most Norwegians do not “god” to master everyday life, says Bjørn Øyvind Fjeld, Associate in practical theology at Ansgar Theological College.
Meanwhile, the other half directed his gaze toward a higher power at least once last year .
– Also Norwegians are vulnerable people in certain situations seek help beyond the security we have in ourselves, says Fjeld.
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Prayer is strong
Hallgeir Elstad, academic dean at the Faculty of Theology (TF) University of Oslo, says the survey shows that prayer still standing reasonably strong in the population.
– In other surveys say around 50 percent said they believe in God or expect a spiritual power. From such a base figure is however not as sensational, if one assumes one correspondence between faith and prayer, says Elstad.
Professor Fjeld think that the figure of pleading would have been even higher if the question in the survey had included one greater part of the life cycle than the last year.
– answers says more about religiosity than about faith in the people, if it refers to the Christian faith. “A higher power” may include any kind of religiosity, he stressed.
In comparison pray over half of the residents in the United States every day, while one in ten never asks, according to the National Opinion Research Centers survey in 2010.
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Non-believers asks not
Norwegian Social Science Data Services rendered in 2007 a value survey. Where they ask, among other things it set aside for prayer, meditation, contemplation or similar. 33 percent answered yes, 66 percent no.
Over 15 percent of those who do not consider themselves as believers, is nevertheless that it happened that during the year have asked to higher powers. That figure is confirmed by the survey Infact has done for the day.
– This may be an expression of prayer as a public or private religious tradition, which does not necessarily correspond to whether people consider themselves believers or not, says study dean Elstad .
Gender Differences
More women than men ask, which may indicate that women are more religious than men.
– This is something that increasingly looks, also in historical material, said Elstad.
One theory is that it is women who are the closest living relations and therefore drawn more to the religious.
– It may be that traditional religious values of Christianity appeals more to women than to men, for example charity and care. Historically, it was primarily women who were responsible for the religious upbringing of the children, study says Dean.
He notes that Christian preaching is not always communicate so well with a “man world” that emphasizes competition, economy and technology.
– Just as it is pointed out that the school favors girls, it can be said about the church and Christianity today that they favor women over men, says Elstad.
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Eastern asks least
Prayer is strongest among vestlendinger and weakest among Østlendingen, according to Dagens survey.
– In Norway, there are clear differences between regions when it comes to religion, says Elstad.
Other surveys show that most personal religious belief in Western and Southern. Eastern Norway is characterized by diversity in religions.
– Are there other explanations than chapeau environments and Bible-belt, Fjeld?
– I do not know. Perhaps the challenges of the sea and nature throughout the ages has made vestlendingene less self-sufficient, says Bjørn Øyvind Fjeld.
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