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What 1.3 billion Muslims really think : an answer to a recent Gallup study, based on the World Values Survey

Title
What 1.3 billion Muslims really think : an answer to a recent Gallup study, based on the World Values Survey / Arno Tausch.
Published
New York : Nova Science Publishers, [2009], ©2009.
Description
xv, 601 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm
Contents
Amitai Etzioni on Islam
Anti-Enlightenment prejudice in a nutshell : the covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement - Hamas
Ch. 1. Introduction
Ch. 2. Inglehart and the consequences : Islam on the map of global value changes - a first assessment
Ch. 3. Euro-Islam and Europe's leading culture : 6.6 million homophobes among 229 million tax evaders?
Ch. 4. The global protest potential against the "Washington Consexus" (=liberal market economy + liberal democracy + sexual permissiveness + secularization)
Ch. 5. Another look at asabiyya : the social cohesion of society
Ch. 6. The northward migration of global intolerance and the global tolerance index
Ch. 7. Simon Kuznets revisited : the U-shaped tradeoff between tolerance and development
Ch. 8. Active society, tolerance and development : the cross-national evidence
Ch. 9. "Who are we?" : a factor analysis of global value differences
Ch. 10. By way of conclusion : how much secularization is necessary, and how much secularization is recommendable?
App. I. Analysis of WVS data : methodological notes on sample size, error probability, sample composition, et cetera
App. II. What the Gallup booklet unfortunately does not tell you : what Muslims really think - the data from the world values survey, with a full documentation and the original SPSS XIV/XV tables, and the most important survey results for the Muslim global sample from the world values survey
App. III. Ibn Khaldoun revisited : a factor analytical model of central world values survey indicators
App. IV. The Active Society index
App. V. Islam and Enlightenment : the possible way ahead - a quantitative view; the cross-national determinants of economic growth, the active society, global tolerance, traditional values, the intransparent society and asabiyya
App. VI. Mapping the world civilization : is Islam compatible with Enlightenment? : a factor analytical model
App. VII. Secularization - how much? : some further materials on the Scylla and Charybdis on the path to modernization and the governance of value change
App. VIII. Muslims are no security risk in a multicultural Europe : a world values survey comparison of European Union, EEA and EFTA country opinions on major issues and social realities by the major religious groups in Europe.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language
English
LCCN
2009002413
ISBN
9781606927311 (hbk.)
1606927310 (hbk.)
Format
Book Book
Location
Call Number: DS35.6 .T33 2009
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