arise from long-term processes influenced by geography, major historical events, culture, and, less commonly, religion. This … chapter reviews the available evidence to demonstrate that religion has a strong effect on formal (laws, judicial and … empirical challenges inherent in the study of religion and institutions, and proposes way to overcome them. It also suggests …

participants toward members of the other religion one week after the training program finished. While we find that most of the …

Catholics, Protestants and non-believers, those of Eastern Orthodox religion have less social capital and prefer old ideas and …

Culture has played a pivotal role in human evolution. Yet, the ability of social scientists to study culture is limited … by the currently available measurement instruments. Scholars of culture must regularly choose between scalable but sparse … can advance the study of human culture by providing quantitative, scalable, and high-resolution measurement of …