{"id":854,"date":"2004-02-04T11:33:15","date_gmt":"2004-02-04T19:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/02\/04\/religion-and-economic-growth-linked\/"},"modified":"2004-02-04T11:33:15","modified_gmt":"2004-02-04T19:33:15","slug":"religion-and-economic-growth-linked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/02\/04\/religion-and-economic-growth-linked","title":{"rendered":"Religion and Economic Growth Linked"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s an inter\u00adest\u00ading sto\u00adry from the New York Times: Research Around the World Links Reli\u00adgion to Eco\u00adnom\u00adic Devel\u00adop\u00adment<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Intrigu\u00ading excerpts:<\/p>\n

Since the Ger\u00adman soci\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgist Max Weber wrote about the Protes\u00adtant work eth\u00adic and the spir\u00adit of cap\u00adi\u00adtal\u00adism, social sci\u00aden\u00adtists have argued that cul\u00adture \u2014 includ\u00ading reli\u00adgious habits \u2014 is part of the com\u00adplex mix that deter\u00admines a coun\u00adtry\u2019s eco\u00adnom\u00adic health. What dis\u00adtin\u00adguish\u00ades the work of Mr. Bar\u00adro and Ms. McCleary, some schol\u00adars said, is that it uses a sophis\u00adti\u00adcat\u00aded analy\u00adsis of a huge set of data to quan\u00adti\u00adfy the argu\u00adments of anthro\u00adpol\u00ado\u00adgists, soci\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgists and polit\u00adi\u00adcal sci\u00aden\u00adtists.<\/i><\/p>\n

\u2026<\/p>\n

As the cou\u00adple began their study, Ms. McCleary said, it was clear that the wide\u00adly dis\u00adcussed sec\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adiza\u00adtion the\u00adsis \u2014 the idea that a coun\u00adtry becomes more sec\u00adu\u00adlar as it becomes rich\u00ader and more indus\u00adtri\u00adal\u00adized \u2014 did not apply to the Unit\u00aded States, one of the most reli\u00adgious nations in the world.<\/i><\/p>\n

And over the last 30 years, many East Asian coun\u00adtries, includ\u00ading Malaysia, Sin\u00adga\u00adpore and South Korea, have expe\u00adri\u00adenced both rapid eco\u00adnom\u00adic growth and the spread of Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty, Mr. Bar\u00adro said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSouth Korea is a good exam\u00adple of that rapid growth and more reli\u00adgion,\u201d he said. There the num\u00adber of con\u00adverts from Con\u00adfu\u00adcian\u00adism and oth\u00ader East\u00adern reli\u00adgions to Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty is grow\u00ading rapid\u00adly, he explained. <\/p>\n

Some of the low\u00adest lev\u00adels of reli\u00adgios\u00adi\u00adty were found in Chi\u00adna and North Korea. The low\u00adest lev\u00adels of eco\u00adnom\u00adic growth were in sub-Saha\u00adran African coun\u00adtries. The for\u00admer East Ger\u00admany (which includes Weber\u2019s birth\u00adplace) was one of the low\u00adest in both reli\u00adgios\u00adi\u00adty and growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s an inter\u00adest\u00ading sto\u00adry from the New York Times: Research Around the World Links Reli\u00adgion to Eco\u00adnom\u00adic Devel\u00adop\u00adment. Intrigu\u00ading excerpts: Since the Ger\u00adman soci\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgist Max Weber wrote about the Protes\u00adtant work eth\u00adic and the spir\u00adit of cap\u00adi\u00adtal\u00adism, social sci\u00aden\u00adtists have argued that cul\u00adture \u2014 includ\u00ading reli\u00adgious habits \u2014 is part of the com\u00adplex mix that \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cReli\u00adgion and Eco\u00adnom\u00adic Growth Linked\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-integration"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-dM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}