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- 1. RELIGION AND INEQUALITY INEQUALITY (SPRING 2023) F E B R U ARY 2 N D , 2 0 2 3
- 4. FIRST ESTIMATES OF GLOBAL INEQUALITY BY RELIGION (NAVARRO AND SKIRBEKK, 2018)
- 8. FINDINGS Christian and Jewish societies tend to be the most unequal Inequality has risen substantially across all societies together with economic growth Muslims, Hindus and unaffiliated are among the most equal societies Muslim societies have experienced the highest rise in income inequality of all religions since 1990
- 9. BIG QUESTIONS • Is religion one cause of inequality, or one (or THE) solution? • How much do you agree with the statement that much of the national continuities in attitudes towards, and policies against, poverty can be traced back to religious roots (Kahl 2005)? • How much do you agree with Scheve’s (2006) statement that individuals who are religious tend to prefer lower levels of social insurance than individuals who are “secular”? • Do you perceive more religious communities as ones where discussions of economic inequality tend to occur more or less often?
Editor's Notes
- Jordan_2014 Gini: It gives a numeric value to how far from a totally equal distribution of income the present distribution is
- Visual representation of how welfare regime type maps onto contemporary measures of inequality and religiosity The evidence above, provides strong evidence in favor of the contention that religion plays an important role in shaping the structure of modern welfare states and, by extension, patterns of inequality, but is it possible that the levels of religiosity are influenced by the structure of the welfare state?
- It gives better information than the Gini on the crucial aspect of how redistribution of gross national income works (or does not) in a society between its richest and poorest members. The top 20 per cent of Jewish income earners receive 12 times the income of the poorest 20 per cent whilst the figure is 8.7 for Christians respectively.