advancements in military technology, they waited almost three centuries to sanction printing in Ottoman Turkish (in Arabic ….g., military, religious, or secular authorities). The Ottomans regulated the printing press heavily to prevent the loss it would … characters). Printing spread relatively rapidly throughout Europe following the invention of the printing press in 1450 despite …

advancements in military technology, they waited almost three centuries to sanction printing in Ottoman Turkish (in Arabic ….g., military, religious, or secular authorities). The Ottomans regulated the printing press heavily to prevent the loss it would … characters). Printing spread relatively rapidly throughout Europe following the invention of the printing press in 1450 despite …

its ability to confer legitimacy on the rulers. Change or stagnation has emerged as the outcome of the strategic …

varies over time and place. We address this problem by exploiting quasi-random variation in the religion of rulers in the … religion of the ruler had no statistically significant impact on Muslim literacy, railroad ownership, or post office provision …

Networks of Church and State that originated in premodern times played an important role as conduits for the … economy. “…indeed society developed only so fast as religion enlarged its sphere. We cannot say that religious progress …

the theory that the spread of the Reformation is linked to the spread of the printing press. I test this theory by … omitted variable bias with a city's distance from Mainz, the birthplace of printing, suggests that cities with at least one … printing press by 1500 were at minimum 29 percentage points more likely to be Protestant by 1600. © 2014 The President and …

(over-)reliance on religious legitimacy, use of slave soldiers, and persistence of restrictive proscriptions of religious …

established state religions and adopted laws with religious origins, sometimes even claiming to have divine powers. We propose a … theocracy, such as the organization of the religion market, monotheism vs. polytheism, and strength of the ruler. We use two …

State and religion, two of the oldest institutions known to mankind, have historically had a close relationship with … relationship in recent centuries, the state-religion alliance remains strong in some societies. We use a political economy approach … and a unique dataset to examine the relationship between state and religion since the year 1000. We constructed the data …