Abstract The debate about a resurgence of religion in the public life of Western European societies is ongoing in media and academic circles. Yet there is a shortage of systematic and longitudinal empirical studies of the coverage of religion in European mass media. This article presents some empirical findings, but the focus is on methodological considerations in a longitudinal quantitative content analysis of indicators of religion in editorials in the Swedish daily press from 1976 to 2010. We present and discuss how the selection of keywords and of analytical units affects the outcome of our analysis as to tendencies over time regarding the frequency of religion indicators. As our results show, the question of a resurgence of religion in the daily press has no simple answer. Thus, methodological issues concerning reliability, validity and reflexivity are of crucial importance for this and similar studies measuring cultural change as reflected in the daily press.

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衡量宗教复兴？

摘要在媒体和学术界，有关西欧社会公共生活中宗教复兴的争论仍在进行。然而，对于欧洲大众媒体中宗教报道的系统性和纵向的实证研究不足。本文介绍了一些经验发现，但重点是从1976年至2010年瑞典日报的社论中对宗教指标进行纵向定量内容分析的方法学考虑。我们介绍并讨论关键字和分析单位的选择如何影响我们分析宗教指标频率随时间变化趋势的结果。正如我们的结果所示，在日常媒体中重新出现宗教的问题没有简单的答案。因此，有关可靠性的方法论问题，