Diffusion of Islam in the United States: Comparative Personal Conversion Social Networks

Erin, Şakin

doi:10.1515/irsr-2016-0024

International Review of Social Research

2016

DOI: 10.1515/irsr-2016-0024

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Diffusion of Islam in the United States: Comparative Personal Conversion Social Networks

Şakin Erin¹

Abstract: Conversion is one of the ways in which religion diffuses in society. Different than other diffusions, such as adopting a new technology or a fad, religious adoption can be riskier since it entails a life changing transition thereby making it a complex contagion. This study investigates whether Islam diffuses through weak ties or strong ties.

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Historical and Comparative Research on Social Diffusion: Mechanisms, Methods, and Data

Everton

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2022

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Historical and comparative social scientists are increasingly interested in explaining the spread of innovations—which social scientists commonly refer to as diffusion and, broadly conceived, can include the spread of new ideas, behaviors, technologies, and institutions. However, in spite of the profusion of studies, researchers do not always specify a diffusion model or its underlying causal mechanisms. Whereas many studies document spatial diffusion, not all specify a vector, model flows of influence and information, or show how people and places are connected (tied) to one another. In reviewing some of the most important work on the spread of religion, violent conflict, and social movements over the last few decades, it is clear to us that social network analysis has revolutionized the historical study of diffusion. Even so, many studies have yet to embrace concepts, methods, and measures from social network analysis. Nevertheless, we are convinced that the combination of historical perspectives on change and innovation, new methods of historical data collection and analysis, and growing sophistication in the application of network concepts and models is shedding light on a host of historical questions and contributing to our general understanding of diffusion.

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Historical and Comparative Research on Social Diffusion: Mechanisms, Methods, and Data

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Pfaff

2022

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Diffusion of Islam in the United States: Comparative Personal Conversion Social Networks

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Historical and Comparative Research on Social Diffusion: Mechanisms, Methods, and Data

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