War increases religiosity
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11230/19:10388418 RIV/00216208:11640/19:00517979
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0512-3" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0512-3</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0512-3" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41562-018-0512-3</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
War increases religiosity
Original language description
Does the experience of war increase people’s religiosity? Much evidence supports the idea that particular religious beliefs and ritual forms can galvanize social solidarity and motivate in-group cooperation, thus facilitating a wide range of cooperative behaviours including—but not limited to—peaceful resistance and collective aggression. However, little work has focused on whether violent conflict, in turn, might fuel greater religious participation. Here, we analyse survey data from 1,709 individuals in three post-conflict societies—Uganda, Sierra Leone and Tajikistan. The nature of these conflicts allows us to infer, and statistically verify, that individuals were quasirandomly afflicted with different intensities of war experience—thus potentially providing a natural experiment. We then show that those with greater exposure to these wars were more likely to participate in Christian or Muslim religious groups and rituals, even several years after the conflict. The results are robust to a wide range of control variables and statistical checks and hold even when we compare only individuals from the same communities, ethnic groups and religions.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Nature Human Behaviour
ISSN
2397-3374
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
3
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
7
Pages from-to
129-135
UT code for WoS article
000458449900010
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85060784407