. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we then characterize conditions under which a temporary decline in social mobility … produces a large and long-lasting rise in religious participation. Religion in our model helps to cope with loss, which occurs …

tradition - namely, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - are juxtaposed here in one volume to facilitate a fruitful inter …

From its genesis in the seventh century onwards, Islam has been a major paradigm that has shaped the politico … structures of Muslim-majority nations, it has mostly been assumed that Islam predicates an autocratic theocracy and a …. Conversely, with a reactive consciousness, orthodox Muslims take it for granted that Islam's divinely ordained normative axioms …

a merely static redistribution system unsustainable. Islam added a set of dynamic redistributive rules that were self …