attendance and religious beliefs are positively related to education (thereby conflicting with theories in which religion … and lower fertility. We investigate the effects of official state religions, government regulation of the religion market … the measures of official state religion, government regulation, and religious pluralism …

Two important theories of religiosity are the secularization hypothesis and the religion-market model. According to the … depends on the presence of a state religion, regulation of the religion market, suppression of organized religion under … religion tends to increase religiosity, probably because of the subsidies that flow to organized religion. However, in …

This paper argues that the relationship between democracy and the separation of religion and state needs to be … reexamined. Previous studies have misconceptualized the impact a lack of religion-state separation can have on democracy, or have … that measure the separation of religion and state then the most relevant indicators for the social aspects of religion …