The role of education, religiosity and development on support for violent practices among Muslims in thirty-five countries.

ABSTRACT: Despite widespread scholarly interest in values and attitudes among Muslim populations, relatively little work has focused on specific attitudes popularly thought to indicate anti-modern or anti-liberal tendencies within Islam. In this article, we use data from the Pew Research Center from 2008-2012 to examine support for violent practices among Muslims in thirty-five countries. Support for violent practices is defined by three questions on the acceptability of killing apostates, the stoning of adulterers, and severe corporal punishment for thieves. Using multilevel models that capture country-level variability, we analyze the relationship between support for violent practices and education, religiosity, and development. In general, we find that support for violent practices is less common

SUBMITTER: Gullickson A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8612526 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature