Testing the Veracity of Self-Reported Religious Practice in the Muslim World.
Survey findings suggest that predominantly Muslim countries are among the most religious in the world and validate commonly held, but overly simplistic, perceptions of Muslims as extremely and uniformly religious. Existing research has demonstrated that survey estimates can give a distorted view of...
| Publicado en: | Social Forces Vol. 92; no. 3; pp. 1009 - 1038 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Mar2014
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