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Welfare spending reduces religious participation

Ingrid Storm By Ingrid Storm Filed Under: All posts, Inclusive Growth Posted: April 25, 2017

Dr Ingrid Storm from The University of Manchester finds that people who live in countries with lower GDP (Gross Domestic Product) and lower social welfare spending are more religious on average. This is in part because religiosity can act as an alternative form of social security when government welfare is not available. The results have […]

Tagged With: GDP, religion, religious participation, welfare spending

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Does religion have any impact on morality in modern Europe?

Ingrid Storm By Ingrid Storm Filed Under: All posts Posted: January 7, 2016

New research drawing on European survey data finds that religious decline does not equal moral decline. Dr Ingrid Storm explains why involvement in religion makes most difference to morality in the most religious countries, and matters less for moral values now than it did in the 1980s. A recent report by the Commission on Religion […]

Tagged With: europe, morality, morals, religion, society

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Do religious people volunteer more?

Ingrid Storm By Ingrid Storm Filed Under: Ethnicity, Featured Posted: December 18, 2014

Among ethnic minorities in Britain, religious people are more likely to volunteer, but only for ethnic and religious organisations, explains Dr Ingrid Storm.  Since the 1990s, the government has involved ‘faith groups’ as partners in local policy and service provision in order to promote civic participation and community cohesion.  However, it is as yet unclear […]

Tagged With: civic participation, CoDE, ethnic minorities, Ethnic Minority British Election Survey, ethnicity, European Values Study, religion, Robert Putnam

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Challenging the myth of religious violence

Kate Cooper By Kate Cooper Filed Under: Featured Posted: November 25, 2014

Religion is being wrongly blamed for ‘driving’ global violence, but it is moderate religious voices who are best positioned to address the problem, argues Professor Kate Cooper. The recently published Global Terrorism Index 2013 is being reported  as confirming that “religion has become the main driver of terrorism”, surpassing nationalist and other motives. But there […]

Tagged With: Augustine of Hippo, Christianity, City of God, Global Terrorism Index, Islam, Judaism, religion, religious wars, Terrorism

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Don’t blame religion for political conflicts, Mr Blair

Kate Cooper By Kate Cooper Filed Under: Featured Posted: May 15, 2014

Just because wars are justified by reference to religion doesn’t mean they are religious wars – organised religion can also bring people together to resolve conflicts, argues Prof Kate Cooper. As an ancient historian, I am surprised by the easy causality which commentators think they find between ‘religious motives’ and modern social conflict. Take the […]

Tagged With: Christianity, Islam, Jasmine Revolution, Middle East, northern ireland, religion, religious wars, Tony Blair, Tunisia, wars

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