, unimpeded science, a passive Church and high levels of taxes and transfers. Second, a "Theocratic" regime with knowledge …

includes survey information over the last 20 years on church attendance and an array of religious beliefs. Although religiosity … declines overall with economic development, the nature of the response varies with the dimension of development. Church … economic growth responds positively to the extent of some religious beliefs but negatively to church attendance. That is …

last 20 years on church attendance and religious beliefs. In accordance with the secularization view, overall economic …

The Catholic Church has been making saints for centuries, typically in a two-stage process featuring beatification and … naming of blessed persons seems to reflect a response by the Catholic Church to competition from Protestantism or …

We combine a new dataset of weekly Catholic church donations with a new dataset of presidential-election campaign stops … appear to vary based on the political language used by the parish in its own church bulletins. However, the effect does …

The availability of public funding for charitable church activity has increased dramatically in the past decade. A key … race affects charitable church activity. In all three datasets there is evidence that all-white congregations become less … charitable activities, not when looking at other types of church activity. Additionally, all-white congregations favorably …

then use a variety of datasets to show that when a state repeals its blue laws religious attendance falls, and that church …

complementary institutions, notably the church, could have mutually reinforced each other over many overlapping generations, long …

populations and the church promoted the doctrine of purgatory, guilds that bundled together religious and occupational activities …