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In an interview with America Magazine, Pope Francis spoke of a "martyred" people of Ukraine and said that invading non-Russian ethnic soldiers are "probably the cruelest". Most Chechens are Muslims, while Buryats are Tibetan Buddhists and Shamans. The media's discriminatory treatment of...
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In the eighth century, Charles Martel confiscated Church property to make distributions of benefices and precaria to his vassals. This project was an investment in state capacity and secularizations of Church property were continued under Charles' son Pippin III. Many scholars have characterized...
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economy. “…indeed society developed only so fast as religion enlarged its sphere. We cannot say that religious progress …
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We exploit a historical experiment that occurred in Czechoslovakia after World War Two to study the drivers of social capital accumulation in an extremely unfavorable environment. Between 1945 and 1948, the Sudetenland became the scene of ethnic cleansing, with the expulsion of nearly three...
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villages with a different majority religion, and villages with more within-village social gatherings; (2) villages with …
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We study the connection between religion and political radicalization in Weimar Germany, where the Catholic Church …
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In this paper, we investigate how attachment to religion is connected to conservative gender role beliefs and to what …-progressive political regimes and ideology can weaken this chain of effects, by eroding either the way religion shapes gender roles or the … religion is in both groups associated with more traditional gender roles; however, the link is significantly weaker for the …
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, there has been little study of the determinants of economic freedom. We investigate whether religion affects economic …
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Can weakened religiosity lead to the rise of totalitarianism? The Nazi Party set itself up as a political religion …
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Can weakened religiosity lead to the rise of totalitarianism? The Nazi Party set itself up as a political religion …
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