RT Article
T1 Violence, insecurity, and religiosity: a multilevel analysis of 71 countries
JF Terrorism and political violence
VO 32
IS 6
SP 1310
OP 1328
A1 Carreras, Miguel
A1 Verghese, Ajay
A2 Verghese, Ajay
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1831799871
AB A large social science literature demonstrates a link between personal insecurity and religiosity. When individuals are healthy, literate, and gainfully employed, they tend to be less religious. One of the most fundamental threats to an individual is the risk of violence, but this important marker of insecurity has been unexplored in recent studies of the determinants of religiosity. We use a unique dataset that measures state-sponsored terror, an ideal measure for studying insecurity, and explore the relationship between violence and religious beliefs and practices in 71 countries during the period 1981–2011. We find a robust positive association between violence and religiosity, and offer several reasons to believe that this is a causal relationship. Drawing on psychological studies, we argue that the specific mechanism at work deals with religious coping, a uniquely efficacious way of combating the stress and anxiety produced by the threat of recurrent violence.
NO Gesehen am 23.01.2023
NO Published online: 27 Jun 2018
K1 Violence
K1 Insecurity
K1 Religiosity
K1 Religious Coping
DO 10.1080/09546553.2018.1466704