Confucian Religion Dominant
| Quick info | |
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| Data type | Numeric |
| Scale | Binary |
| Value labels | 1 = Yes, 0 = No |
| Technical name | cult_relig_dom_confgenpct |
| Category | Culture |
| Label | Confucian Religion Dominant |
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At least 33% of citizens are adherent to Confucian religion
Coding rules
Religion constitutes one main part of a states’ culture. It forms a cohesive basis for values that are reproduced and shared in a state community. The data is taken from the “Correlates of War – World Religion Data (v1.1)” (Maoz and Henderson 2013) dataset. It provides information regarding the number of adherents by religion, as well as the percent of the state's population adherent to a given religion. We only consider aggregated Religions i.e. Christian, Muslim etc., and thereby ignoring intra-religious differences like Protestant/Catholic or Sunni/Shiite streams. As we are not interested in the differences within religious families, in this indicator, we rather want to have a simple but meaningful differentiation on the way the world is seen and interpreted, as well as what society and values a group strives for. The dataset covers a time frame of 1945 to 2010 in 5 year intervals. In order to get yearly coverage we linearly interpolated the data between every known data point of an entity. The dominant religion was calculated for each year, based on the assumption that if at least 33% of the population adheres to a specific religious family one can assume political, social and especially cultural, power. Defining dominant religion only by the one religion with the most adherents does not give us the exactness and fuzziness of data we would like to have. Take for example a country like Albania: If we assigned Islam as the dominant religion, as it has the most adherents, we lose information not only on the religious but also cultural fragmentation of Albanian society. We assume that dominant religions did not change before the beginning of the CoW data. We take the dominant religions first observed per country and write these back to the start of our cultural spheres data set. Exploring the data from Maoz and Henderson (2013), and simplifying it to our definition of dominant religion we noticed that there are hardly any changes over the time-span of 1945 to 2010. That makes us confident to not expect drastic changes in the time before 1945. Changes in dominant religion are very rare. As an example, one could take Ghana, in which the dominant religion before 1974 were Animist religions and Christianism. After that, Christianism has more than a third of the population as adherents and the combined animist religions have less than that. However, before that, the case was different and therefore Ghana has two dominant religions before 1974: Animism and Christianism. In our data set, according to our general coding rules, the dominant religion(s) are coded as 1; all others as 0.
For further information see the Technical Paper: Besche-Truthe, Fabian; Seitzer, Helen; Windzio, Michael. 2020 “Cultural Spheres – Creating a dyadic dataset of cultural proximity”. SFB 1342 Technical Paper Series, 5. Bremen, SFB 1342.
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Misc
Project manager(s): Fabian Besche-Truthe, Michael Windzio, Helen Seitzer
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Sources
Maoz, Zeev, and Errol A. Henderson. 2013. “The world religion dataset, 1945–2010: Logic, estimates, and trends.” International Interactions 39 (3): 265–91.
