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It Is About Believing: Superstition and Religiosity
This paper has a novel framework analysing what shapes superstition in a multivariate analysis. The results indicate that socio-demographic and socio-economic variables matter. The results also indicate that there is a certain concurrence between churches and superstitious beliefs. In most of the cases we observe a negative correlation between superstition and attendance of church and other religious activities. Closeness to the churches goes in line with lower superstition. On the other hand, a generally higher perceived religiosity increases superstition. Furthermore, there is the tendency that people without a religious denomination have the lowest belief in superstition. Finally, the results indicate that there is a strong variety in superstition among countries. Especially people from formerly Communist countries have a higher degree of superstition than others.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: CREMA Working Paper ; No. 2003-10
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
- Subject
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Superstition
Religiosity
Culture
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Torgler, Benno
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA)
- (where)
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Basel
- (when)
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2003
- Handle
- Last update
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20.09.2024, 8:23 AM CEST
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Torgler, Benno
- Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA)
Time of origin
- 2003
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