Does State Repression Suppress the Protest Participation of Religious People?

The relationship between religion and protest participation has long been of interest to sociologists, however few cross-national, quantitative studies have examined this relationship in a robust methodological way. In addition, how state repression influences the protest participation of religious...

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Authors: Lu, Yunfeng 1975- (Author) ; Yang, Fenggang 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford Univ. Press [2019]
In: Sociology of religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 80, Issue: 2, Pages: 194-221
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B State / Social movement / Oppression / Religiosity / Participation in
IxTheo Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AG Religious life; material religion
ZB Sociology
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Summary:The relationship between religion and protest participation has long been of interest to sociologists, however few cross-national, quantitative studies have examined this relationship in a robust methodological way. In addition, how state repression influences the protest participation of religious people is still not clear. Using a dataset integrating the sixth wave of the World Values Surveys, the freedom index created by the Freedom House, and the Religion and State project, we first examine the relationship between individual-level religious participation and protest participation on a worldwide scale, and then assess how country-level repression moderates this relationship. The results of our multilevel logistic regression models show that (1) religious participation has a positive effect on protest participation, and (2) this positive effect is stronger in more repressive countries.
ISSN:1759-8818
Contains:Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/socrel/sry029