Abstract
Previous data collections have demonstrated that the state discriminates against religions in many
ways, but few offer measures on societal discrimination, and none collect data on societal
discrimination using religious minorities as the unit of analysis. This study introduces and presents
the Religion and State round 3 (RAS3) dataset as a comprehensive collection including a newly
collected Societal Module as well as a revised Minorities Module. The Societal Module offers
important new measures on societal actions against religious minorities as well as the actions of
minorities against other religious groups. This data includes a wide range of discriminatory
behaviors ranging from specific forms of harassment and economic discrimination to specific forms
of physical violence. Each of these measures was collected for 183 nations and for 771 religious
minorities which includes all minorities meeting a 0.25 percent population cutoff as well as some
smaller minorities. This study reviews and evaluates the RAS3 collection and finds a high level of
reliability and validity for most of the newly constructed indexes and the measures they include.
Original language | American English |
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Article number | 14 |
Number of pages | 37 |
Journal | Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion |
Volume | 14 |
State | Published - 2018 |