2015
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9248.12212
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

State-Level Restriction of Religious Freedom and Women’s Rights: A Global Analysis

Abstract: The literature is divided on the nature of the relationship between state-level restriction of religious freedom and women's rights, as religious freedom can empower members of marginalized groups or advance genderdiscriminatory practices. Employing a time-series cross-sectional analysis of data for two decades from 153 nations, this study shows that the relationship between religious regulation and women's rights depends on the type of regulation, with regulation of the majority religion improving state-level… Show more

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...
1
1
1
1

Citation Types

0
9
0

Year Published

2016
2016
2022
2022

Publication Types

Select...
7
2
1

Relationship

1
9

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 29 publications
(9 citation statements)
references
References 50 publications
0
9
0
Order By: Relevance
“…As a result, RET predicts religious freedom to lead to greater competition among religious organizations for adherentsa process that motivates various religious groups or organizations to cater to the special interests of specific groups (Finke & Stark, 1988, p. 42;Finke, 2013; also see Gill, 1998). Under such competition, we might expect religious leadership to have more incentives to become politically involved in and actively defend the interests of their community to increase their outreach (Ben-Nun Bloom, 2016;Ben-Nun Bloom, Arikan, & Sommer, 2014;Gill, 2008).…”
Section: Religious Markets As Opportunity Structuresmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As a result, RET predicts religious freedom to lead to greater competition among religious organizations for adherentsa process that motivates various religious groups or organizations to cater to the special interests of specific groups (Finke & Stark, 1988, p. 42;Finke, 2013; also see Gill, 1998). Under such competition, we might expect religious leadership to have more incentives to become politically involved in and actively defend the interests of their community to increase their outreach (Ben-Nun Bloom, 2016;Ben-Nun Bloom, Arikan, & Sommer, 2014;Gill, 2008).…”
Section: Religious Markets As Opportunity Structuresmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This change involves a shift from an emphasis on religiosity and respect for authority (in agrarian societies) to secularization, nationalism and pursuit of material security (in industrial economies) and towards post-material concerns with individual autonomy, quality of life and self-expression (in post-industrial economies). In turn, the expression of post-materialist values is manifested in greater acceptance of otherness, more egalitarian conceptions of gender roles, and greater gender equality in policy and practice (Ben-Nun Bloom, 2016; Inglehart and Norris, 2003). Alongside these overall trends, however, CMT theorists find that the effects of economic development, which globalization spurs, on a country’s level of gender equality vary greatly across nations.…”
Section: Economic Globalization and Gender Statusmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A particularly fruitful field of inquiry has been the research on regulation of religion. Several studies have focused on understanding the consequences of such regulation for topics as various as forced migration (Kolbe and Henne 2014), religious persecution (Grim and Finke 2007), women's rights (Ben-Nun Bloom 2015), and the vote on defamation in the United Nations (Henne 2013).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%