Religion-Market Theory: A Qualitative Theory Testing
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چکیده
Despite industrialization and modernization, religion still has a significant impact on society politics. Many theories compete to answer questions about religion, yet this paper argues that religion-market theory superiority in explaining the failure of secularization diminish even most developed nations such as United States, while it succeeded others. Relying Mill’s method difference, study qualitatively compares two cases States Kingdom, relying history economic structures religious institutions. This proves Americans are far more than British because since foundation republic, U.S. not adopted any state UK Christianity English Reformation. Hence, links between state’s regulations religiosity its again.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Indonesian Journal of Religion and Society
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2684-852X']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36256/ijrs.v5i1.295