The economics of religion is a relatively new field of research in economics. This survey
serves two purposes—it is backward-looking in that it traces the historical and sociological …

Muslim societies have been reshaped in recent decades by an Islamic revival. We document
a contemporaneous decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt, the epicentre …

Sacrifice is widely believed to enhance cooperation in churches, communes, gangs, clans,
military units, and many other groups. We find that sacrifice can also work in the lab, apart …

A single club model describes the collective production of both personal and social identity.
Personal identity, how one perceives oneself, is formed through a process of cultural …

This paper studies the impact of Jewish Emancipation and economic development on
Jewish religious culture in 19th century Europe. In Germany, a liberal Reform movement …

Scholarship on social class occupies a particular pedestal in British sociology. However,
recent research into the connections between religion and social position is conspicuously …

Despite public/private/third sector organisations creating and demonstrating the social value
of their interventions, they face challenges in understanding and executing the process of …

This chapter surveys existing work on the connection between religion and terrorism and
proposes an alternative theory, the religious utility hypothesis, in which terrorist …

This paper estimates the effects of economic downturns on the expansion of Pentecostal
Evangelicalism in Brazil. Regions more exposed to economic distress experienced a …

A large literature shows that religious participation is associated with various behaviors and
outcomes, but researchers lack an accepted instrument for religion and have struggled to …