European values at the turn of the millennium / edited by Wil Arts and Loek Halman.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

European values at the turn of the millennium : an introduction -- European value changes in the second age of modernity -- The link between subjective well-being and objective conditions in European societies -- Social capital and life satisfaction -- Voluntary organizations and the development of civil society -- Social values, prejudice and solidarity in the European Union -- Families and values in Europe -- Privatization in the family sphere : longitudinal and comparative analyses in four European countries -- Work and family life in Europe : value patterns and policy making -- European work orientations at the end of the twentieth century -- Religious beliefs and practices in contemporary Europe -- Normative orientations towards the differentiation between religion and politics -- Civic morality in stable, new, and half-hearted democracies -- Gender attitudes towards religion in six post-Soviet states.