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Religion and democracy : a worldwide comparison /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Anckar, Carsten, 1969-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
Series:Routledge studies in religion and politics.
Subjects:
Democracy > Religious aspects > Comparative studies.
Table of Contents:
  • Defining and measuring religious dominance
  • Defining and measuring democracy
  • Controlling extraneous variance
  • Religious affiliation and democratic values
  • Christianity
  • Judaism
  • Islam
  • Buddhism
  • Hinduism
  • Chinese folk religions
  • Ethnoreligions
  • Knitting the threads together
  • Secularism and religious constellations
  • Bivariate patterns
  • Multivariate patterns
  • Regional patterns
  • Global patterns
  • Regional patterns
  • What have we learnt?
  • How much do numbers tell us?
  • Appendix : countries included in the third, fourth, and fifth waves of the world values surveys according to dominant religion and Freedom House status at time of survey.