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Occupation

PhD candidate in sociology of religon
- University of Lausanne (Switzerland)
- Working for the second wave of the National Congregation Study Switzerland (NCSS 2)

Senn, J., Stolz, J. and Monnot, C. (2024). Diversity dynamics. How local religious groups are born, stay, and die over time. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.
- http://doi.org/10.1111/jssr.12907
Stolz, J., Senn, J. (in press). Religious markets, religious marketing, and individual religious choice in Europe. In Fokas, E. and Georgie, A. (eds.) Routledge Handbook on Politics and Religion in Europe. London: Routledge.
Stolz, J., Senn, J. (2023). Säkularisierung und der Anstieg der Konfessionslosen in der Schweiz. Eine soziologische Perspektive. In Schulthess (Ed.). In Zeiten der Säkularisierung. Herausforderungen für das Verhältnis von Staat und Religion.
Stolz, J., and Senn, J. (2022). Generationen abnehmenden Glaubens. In J. Stolz, A. Bünker, A. Liedhegener, E. Baumann-Neuhaus, I. Becci, Z. Dandarova Robert, J. Senn, P. Tanner, O. Wäckerlig, & U. Winter-Pfändler (Eds.), Religionstrends in der Schweiz : Religion, Spiritualität und Säkularität im gesellschaftlichen Wandel (pp. 7-31). Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-36568-4_2

Senn, J., Stolz, J. (2023), NCSS II Dataset [csv & sav formats, 2417 cases, 207 variables, including weights]

Senn, J (2023). Les communautés locales musulmanes en suisse : évolution entre 2008 et 2020 Islam and Society
Stolz, J., Senn, J. (2021, November 11). La foi décroissante, une question de générations. Le Temps.
Stolz, J., Senn, J. (2021, December 30). Warum sich die Kirchen leeren Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

Senn, J. (2023, April 1). Radio interview about secularization in Switzerland. Interviewed by Z. Decker. 6h-9h Le samedi. RSR La Première.

Burri, J. (2023, March 28). Les causes du mouvement de sécularisation restent inexpliquées Réformés.
Fernandez, L. (2023, February 6). Plus d'un Neuchâtelois sur deux se dit «sans religion» Arc Info.
Hartmann, D. (2022, November 18). A chaque génération sa foi Le Courrier.
ATS (2022, November 13). Un certain déclin de la foi chrétienne en Suisse La Liberté.
Agathe Seppey (2022, April 15). Où va la foi? «Chaque génération est moins religieuse que la précédente» Le Temps.

SSSR+RRA 2022 Annual Meeting Baltimore, USA
- Is religious diversity really growing ? Results from the 2nd National Congregation Study Switzerland
Consortium for International Surveys of Congregations (CISC) Research Symposium University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Diversity dynamics. How local religious groups are born, stay, and die over time
Pluralité religieuse et enjeux de reconnaissance social (seminary) University of Strasbourg, France
- L’évolution du paysage religieux suisse (2008-2020). Diversité, mortalité et fusions des groupes religieux locaux
Atelier de terrain en sciences sociales des religions contemporaines (seminary) University of Lausanne, Switzerland
- Le champ des groupes religieux locaux en Suisse. Structure institutionnelle et diversité

36th SISR/ISSR Conference
- Changes in the Swiss religious landscape and diversity. First results in the light of two National Congregations Censuses
ISSR 2021 Research Symposium University of Lausanne
- L’évolution du paysage religieux suisse (2008-2020). Diversité, mortalité et fusions des groupes religieux locaux

2024 : Invited scholar for 6 months at Duke University (USA) with Mark Chaves (forthcoming)

Prize for the best Master of Arts thesis in sociology at the University of Neuchâtel ($1,000), “The hegemony of genes? Kinship as thought and practiced by people born of sperm donation”.

Statistical analysis
- Mostly with the R software
- Training
  - Machine learning (USI Summer School, prof. M. Steenbergen)
Coordination
- Organized the coordination with the scientific partners (ZRWP of the University of Basel and the CIC)
Team management
- Led a team of student assistants (up to 5 people simultaneously)
- Supervised the census of Swiss religious communities (N ≈ 6000)
Practical skills
- Mass mailing (2500 personalized invitation letters and physical mailing to contact and survey the communities leaders)
- (very) Rudimentary web content creation (NCSS 2 website)