TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mehregan,Abbas
TI  - Religion, Religiosity, and Democratic Values: A Comparative Perspective of Islamic and Non-Islamic Societies
T2  - International Studies in Religion and Society Ser.
SN  - 9789004274464
AV  - BP173.63 -- .M44 2014eb 
U1  - 201.72 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Leiden
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Islam and civil society
KW  - Islam and social problems
KW  - Islam and world politics
KW  - Islamic countries -- Relations
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Religion, Religiosity, and Democratic Values -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- 1. Democratic Values, Islamic Principles, and Political Democracy -- Democratic Values and Political Democracy -- Islam and Free Market Economics -- Islam and Civil Society -- Theory of Political Modernization: Influencing Factors on Political Modernization -- 2. Religiosity, Market Economics, Civil Society: Comparisons of 60 Societies -- Religiosity in Cross-National Perspective -- Attitudes towards Free Market Economics in 60 Societies -- Confidence in Civil Society Organizations in Cross-National Comparison -- The Relationship between Democratic Political Tradition, HDI, and Predominant Religion of Societies -- 3. The Link between Religion, Religiosity, and Democratic Values: Multilevel Analyses -- Introduction -- Religion, Religiosity, and Free Market Economics in Islamic, Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, and Folk-Religion Societies -- Religion, Religiosity, and Confidence in Traditional, Modern, and Post-Modern Civil Society Organizations in Various Types of Religious Societies -- Religiosity and Attitudes towards Free Market Economics in Sunni and Shia Islamic Societies -- Religiosity and Confidence in Civil Society Organizations in Sunni and Shia Islamic Societies -- Discussion and Conclusions -- Appendix 1: Materials and Method -- Appendix 2: Additional Descriptive Statistics -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - In Religion, Religiosity, and Democratic Values, Abbas Mehregan examines empirically the effects of individual religiosity, historical religion, institutional democracy, and socioeconomic development on attitudes towards free market economics and confidence in civil society organizations in 60 Islamic and non-Islamic societies
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