TY - JOUR
T1 - The World Religion Dataset, 1945-2010
T2 - Logic, Estimates, and Trends
AU - Maoz, Zeev
AU - Henderson, Errol A.
N1 - Funding Information:
This project was funded by grant #13242 from the Templeton Foundation, with the support of the Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) at the Pennsylvania State University. We wish to thank Roger Finke, the project director, and our assistants and coders: Carl Palmer, Aimee Tannehill, Paul Johnson, Katherine Unger, Tatiana Vashchilko, Molly Sweeny, Anisha Chikarmane, Samantha Gallardo, and Phil Shafer. The World Religion datasets are posted on the Correlates of War (http://www.correlatesofwar.org) and the ARDA (http://www.thearda. com) websites. Responsibility for the data and its interpretations in this paper is ours alone.
PY - 2013/7
Y1 - 2013/7
N2 - This study introduces a new dataset on world religions. The World Religion Project consists of (a) a systematically developed classification of major world religions and religious families within major world religions, which enabled (b) the collection of data on the distribution of the population of all states in the international system across these religious categories, over the period of 1945-2010, and (c) a set of methods to reconcile among conflicting data from multiple sources, to deal with missing data, and to integrate multiple figures for a given observation. In the present study we discuss the significance of the World Religion Project, its internal logic and the development of the religion tree system of classification, and the data collection and data management process. We then provide a number of descriptive statistics about national, dyadic, regional, and global distributions of world religions, as well as some preliminary relationships between the religious similarity of states and their regime type, alliance patterns, and propensity to conflict. We discuss the potential contribution of this dataset to the study of the relationship between religion and international conflict and cooperation.
AB - This study introduces a new dataset on world religions. The World Religion Project consists of (a) a systematically developed classification of major world religions and religious families within major world religions, which enabled (b) the collection of data on the distribution of the population of all states in the international system across these religious categories, over the period of 1945-2010, and (c) a set of methods to reconcile among conflicting data from multiple sources, to deal with missing data, and to integrate multiple figures for a given observation. In the present study we discuss the significance of the World Religion Project, its internal logic and the development of the religion tree system of classification, and the data collection and data management process. We then provide a number of descriptive statistics about national, dyadic, regional, and global distributions of world religions, as well as some preliminary relationships between the religious similarity of states and their regime type, alliance patterns, and propensity to conflict. We discuss the potential contribution of this dataset to the study of the relationship between religion and international conflict and cooperation.
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U2 - 10.1080/03050629.2013.782306
DO - 10.1080/03050629.2013.782306
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84878963729
SN - 0305-0629
VL - 39
SP - 265
EP - 291
JO - International Interactions
JF - International Interactions
IS - 3
ER -