Theological Modernism, Cultural Libertarianism and Laissez-Faire Economics in Contemporary European Societies.(Statistical Data Included)
From: Sociology of Religion
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Date: 3/22/2001
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Author: Davis, Nancy J.; Robinson, Robert V.
Nancy J. Davis [*]
Through analyses of national surveys of 12 European countries and Israel, we test hypotheses relating moral cosmology to cultural and economic attitudes. Modernists are theologically more individualistic than the religiously orthodox in that they see individuals, not a deity, as responsible for their fates and as the ultimate moral arbiters. We hypothesize that modernists, as theological individualists, are culturally individualistic or libertarian in ...
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