Defining the Contours of Religion, State, and Modernity.
Who commits religious discrimination, and why? Recent findings at the country level show an inverse relationship between societal religiosity and social religious discrimination, but findings at the individual level show an increase in conservatism among religious practitioners. In this study, I see...
| Publicado en: | Political Studies Vol. 74; no. 1; pp. 331 - 352 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Feb2026
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