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The role of education, religiosity and development on support for violent practices among Muslims in thirty-five countries
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 11, p e0260429 (2021), PLoS ONE
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021.
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Abstract
- Despite widespread scholarly interest in values and attitudes among Muslim populations, relatively little work has focused on specific attitudes popularly thought to indicate anti-modern or anti-liberal tendencies within Islam. In this article, we use data from the Pew Research Center from 2008-2012 to examine support for violent practices among Muslims in thirty-five countries. Support for violent practices is defined by three questions on the acceptability of killing apostates, the stoning of adulterers, and severe corporal punishment for thieves. Using multilevel models that capture country-level variability, we analyze the relationship between support for violent practices and education, religiosity, and development. In general, we find that support for violent practices is less common among individuals with more education and less religiosity and who come from more developed countries. However, when we examine variation across countries, we see evidence of substantial heterogeneity in the association of education and religiosity with support for violent practices. We find that education is more liberalizing in more liberal countries and in less developed countries. The effects of religiosity are also related to country-level context but vary depending on how religiosity is measured. Overall, the variation we observe across countries calls into question a civilizational approach to studying values among Muslim populations and points to a more detailed multiple modernities approach.
- Subjects :
- Male
Religion and Psychology
Culture
Social Sciences
Criminology
Cultural Anthropology
Geographical Locations
Mathematical and Statistical Techniques
Sociology
Psychological Attitudes
Psychology
bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Sociology|Regional Sociology
Multidisciplinary
Statistics
Multilevel model
Islam
Middle Aged
Democracy
bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Sociology
Aggression
Religion
Physical Sciences
Educational Status
Medicine
Female
Egypt
Factor Analysis
Developed country
Corporal punishment
Research Article
Adult
Religious Faiths
Asia
bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Sociology|Sociology of Religion
Political Science
Science
Developing country
Context (language use)
Violence
Research and Analysis Methods
Education
SocArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Sociology
Religiosity
Punishment
medicine
Humans
Statistical Methods
SocArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Sociology|Sociology of Religion
Educational Attainment
Biology and Life Sciences
SocArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Sociology|Development
medicine.disease
Educational attainment
Attitude
Anthropology
People and Places
Africa
bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences
Population Groupings
SocArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences
Mathematics
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 16
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLOS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9d4c679521e6b875479f114b65233ca8