reserve holdings of the world's central banks. Significant factors include: size of the home country …rival or surpass the dollar as the world's leading international reserve currency appears to depend on …

predictions using data on the foreign operations of US Protestant denominations in 2005 from the World Christian Database … productivity of pastor effort is higher. These findings shed light on factors determining the composition of religion within …

between religion and health. The topic is particularly germane for the health of women and of the elderly, who are much more … likely to be religious. In this paper, I use data from the Gallup World Poll to study the within and between country … nationally representative samples to study the correlates of religion within and between more than 140 countries using more than …

Questions about current and prior religion adherence from the International Social Survey Program and the World Values … religion adherence classified into eight major types. In a theoretical model based on rational individual choice, the frequency …" religion. Empirical findings for a panel of countries accord with several hypotheses: religious-conversion rates are positively …

- only one Communist country (Somalia in 1970) had a state religion in the usual sense. However, a past history of Communism …For 188 independent countries in 2000, 72 had no state religion in the years 2000, 1970, and 1900; 58 had a state … religion at all three dates; and 58 had some kind of transition. Among the 58 transitional countries, 12 had two transitions, 4 …

Two important theories of religiosity are the secularization hypothesis and the religion-market model. According to the … depends on the presence of a state religion, regulation of the religion market, suppression of organized religion under … Communism, and the degree of religious pluralism. We assess the theories by using survey information for 61 countries over the …