Religion and State Project

Data source: Bar-Ilan University

Description:

The Religion and State (RAS) project is a university-based project located at Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel. The general goal is to provide detailed codings on several aspects of separation of religion and state for 183 states on a yearly basis between 1990 and 2014. This constitutes all countries with populations of 250,000 or more, as well as a sampling of countries with lower populations.

Last updated by source: 2017-08-03

Dataset type:	Time-Series
Dataset level:	Country

Citation:

When using this dataset, please cite as:

• Fox, J. (2008). A world survey of religion and the state. Cambridge University Press.

• Fox, J. (2015). Political secularism, religion, and the state: A time survey analysis of worldwide data. Cambridge University Press.

• Fox, J. (2016). The unfree exercise of religion: A world survey of religious discrimination against religious minorities. NY: Cambridge University Pres.

• Fox, J. (2017). Religion and state dataset: Round 3. http://www.religionandstate.org/

• Fox, J. (2019). A world survey of secular-religious competition: State religion policy from 1990 to 2014. Religion, State and Society, 47(1), 10–29. https://doi.org/10.1080/09637494.2018.1532750

• Fox, J., Finke, R., & Mataic, D. R. (2018). New data and measures on societal discrimination and religious minorities. Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion, 2(14).

    @article{biu1,
 author = {Fox, Jonathan},
 doi = {10.1080/09637494.2018.1532750},
 journal = {Religion, State and Society},
 number = {1},
 pages = {10--29},
 title = {A World Survey of Secular-Religious Competition: State Religion policy from 1990 to 2014},
 volume = {47},
 year = {2019}
}

@article{biu2,
 author = {Fox, Jonathan and Roger Finke and Dane R. Mataic},
 journal = {Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion},
 number = {14},
 title = {New Data and Measures on Societal Discrimination and Religious Minorities},
 volume = {2},
 year = {2018}
}

@book{biu3,
 author = {Fox, Jonathan},
 city = {New York},
 publisher = {NY: Cambridge University Pres},
 title = {The Unfree Exercise of Religion: A World Survey of Religious Discrimination against Religious Minorities},
 year = {2016}
}

@book{biu4,
 author = {Jonathan Fox},
 city = {Cambridge},
 publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
 title = {Political Secularism, Religion, and the State: A Time Survey Analysis of Worldwide Data},
 year = {2015}
}

@book{biu5,
 author = {Jonathan Fox},
 city = {Cambridge},
 publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
 title = {A World Survey of Religion and the State},
 year = {2008}
}

@misc{biu6,
 author = {Jonathan Fox},
 title = {Religion and State Dataset: Round 3},
 url = {http://www.religionandstate.org/},
 year = {2017}
}

Variables in this dataset:

Official Religion

QoG Code: biu_offrel

Official Religion measures whether the government has an established religion. For a religion to be established there must be a constitutional clause, a law, or the equivalent explicitly stating that a specific religion or specific religions are the official religions of that state. This variable is coded on the following scale: 0. The state has no official religion 1. The state has multiple established religions 2. The state has one established religion

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Religious Legislation

QoG Code: biu_relleg

This variable refers to laws or government policies which legislate or otherwise support aspects of religion. This includes diverse laws and policies including the direct legislation of religious precepts, funding religion, religious monopolies on aspects of policy or law, and giving clergy and religious institution official powers or influence. The variable ranges from 0-52. Higher scores indicate higher levels of religious legislation.

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