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Developing and Archiving International Religion Data

Developing and Archiving International Religion Data. Brian J. Grim Roger Finke ( Grim@psu.edu ) Pennsylvania State University Association of Religion Data Archives. Research supported by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation. Starting in July, also in cooperation with the

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Developing and Archiving International Religion Data

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  1. Developing and Archiving International Religion Data Brian J. GrimRoger Finke (Grim@psu.edu) Pennsylvania State University Association of Religion Data Archives

  2. Research supported by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation Starting in July, also in cooperation with the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life Washington, DC

  3. Situation Religion, religiously-related values, and socio-religious conflict are important and growingforces in the world today: • whether due to the irony of secularization • or due to an increasing supply of religious competition.

  4. Problem Demographic data on religion around the globe come from a limited number of sources, e.g., • Oxford’s World Christian Encyclopedia • CIA’s World Factbook Religious values data are limited, e.g., • World Values Survey • Global Attitudes Project (Pew) Data to study this are deficient.

  5. “Solutions” Collect more religion-specific data, e.g., • Pew’s current 9-country Pentecostalism poll Centralize data from existing sources, e.g., • WVS, GAP, WCD, etc. (incl. aggregate database) • Other sources (see handout) Innovatively generate new data, e.g., coding: - International Religious Freedom (IRF) Reports

  6. State Dept. IRF Reports (annual)

  7. Coding of IRF Reports

  8. Indicators of Data’s Validity

  9. The number of countries = 173 150

  10. The number of countries = 98 125

  11. The number of countries = 81 104

  12. The number of countries = 143 = 73% of countries

  13. Conclusions Religion can and must be better understood. A specific focus on empirical socio-religious data is needed. These data must be archived and made available to multiple audiences: - researchers - educators - the press - policy-makers

  14. www.TheARDA.com

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