{"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":"<p>Here\u2019s an interesting story from the New York Times: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/01\/31\/arts\/31GOD.html\">Research Around the World Links Religion to Economic Development<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Intriguing excerpts:<\/p>\n<p><i>Since the German sociologist Max Weber wrote about the Protestant work ethic and the spirit of capitalism, social scientists have argued that culture  including religious habits  is part of the complex mix that determines a country\u2019s economic health. What distinguishes the work of Mr. Barro and Ms. McCleary, some scholars said, is that it uses a sophisticated analysis of a huge set of data to quantify the arguments of anthropologists, sociologists and political scientists.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p><i>As the couple began their study, Ms. McCleary said, it was clear that the widely discussed secularization thesis  the idea that a country becomes more secular as it becomes richer and more industrialized  did not apply to the United States, one of the most religious nations in the&nbsp;world.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>And over the last 30 years, many East Asian countries, including Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea, have experienced both rapid economic growth and the spread of Christianity, Mr. Barro&nbsp;said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSouth Korea is a good example of that rapid growth and more religion,\u201d he said. There the number of converts from Confucianism and other Eastern religions to Christianity is growing rapidly, he explained.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some of the lowest levels of religiosity were found in China and North Korea. The lowest levels of economic growth were in sub-Saharan African countries. The former East Germany (which includes Weber\u2019s birthplace) was one of the lowest in both religiosity and growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s an interesting story from the New York Times: Research Around the World Links Religion to Economic Development. Intriguing excerpts: Since the German sociologist Max Weber wrote about the Protestant work ethic and the spirit of capitalism, social scientists have argued that culture including religious habits is part of the complex mix that determines a \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/02\/04\/religion-and-economic-growth-linked\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cReligion and Economic 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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"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}]}}