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Law of the leading digits and the ideological struggle for numbers [PDF]

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 391 (2012) pp. 792-798, 2011
Benford's law states that the occurrence of significant digits in many data sets is not uniform but tends to follow a logarithmic distribution such that the smaller digits appear as first significant digits more frequently than the larger ones. We investigate here numerical data on the country-wise adherent distribution of seven major world religions i.
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The influence of Islam on Zulu Muslims in KwaZulu-Natal

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
This article explores the influence of Islam among the Zulu Muslims in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN). Although several studies focus on the history and experiences of the Asian diaspora or Asian Muslim community, there is a considerable lack of literature on the ...
Simesihle E. Ngubane, Maniraj Sukdaven
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Spreading of Islam without any violence in Central, East and West Africa as a case study

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2018
This article studies the violence in the spreading of Islam by conquest and the factors that influenced the development of Islam in Central, East, West and Southeastern Africa.
Maniraj Sukdaven, Ensieh Bagheri
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For the greater good: Hinduism, selflessness, and social cohesion in South Africa

Theologia Viatorum
The heinous ideology of apartheid in South Africa created a citizenry of distrust, disharmony and discord. With the demise of apartheid in 1994, the South African society needed a process of healing.
Mathias Y. Shunmugam, Maniraj Sukdaven
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The structural advancement of religious communities and the commercialisation of the Christian religion in Nigeria

Theologia Viatorum, 2020
This article examines the activities of Christian religious communities and the birth of a commercialised Christian religion. It begins by creating an atmosphere that the Nigerians find themselves in, and explaining as to why they rely more on religious ...
Benjamin Diara, Mmesoma Onukwufor, Favour Uroko   +2 more
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On religion and language evolutions seen through mathematical and agent based models [PDF]

Proceedings of the First Interdisciplinary Chess Interactions Conference (World Scientific, Singapore, 2010) pp. 157-182, 2011
(shortened version) Religions and languages are social variables, like age, sex, wealth or political opinions, to be studied like any other organizational parameter. In fact, religiosity is one of the most important sociological aspects of populations. Languages are also a characteristics of the human kind.
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Segregation in Religion Networks [PDF]

arXiv, 2018
Religious beliefs could facilitate human cooperation [1-6], promote civic engagement [7-10], improve life satisfaction [11-13] and even boom economic development [14-16]. On the other side, some aspects of religion may lead to regional violence, intergroup conflict and moral prejudice against atheists [17-23]. Analogous to the separation of races [24],
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It's All in the Name: A Character Based Approach To Infer Religion [PDF]

arXiv, 2020
Demographic inference from text has received a surge of attention in the field of natural language processing in the last decade. In this paper, we use personal names to infer religion in South Asia - where religion is a salient social division, and yet, disaggregated data on it remains scarce.
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More religion means less science. An International comparison of the relations between religious beliefs and levels of and attitudes to scientific knowledge [PDF]

arXiv, 2020
This research presents the results of a comparative analysis of the links between religious practices and beliefs and levels of scientific knowledge. Based on secondary analyses of survey data in the European Union (Eurobarometers 2005 and 2010) and the United States (Pew Research Center 2018), we show that, regardless of the country, correlations ...
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Tingkat Toleransi Antaragama di Masyarakat Indonesia

Societas Dei: Jurnal Agama dan Masyarakat, 2016
: This article will measure the level of religious tolerance ini Indonesia. The measurement of this level of tolerance is based upon views of some students' organization in Jakarta.
Binsar Antoni Hutabarat, H. Hans Panjaitan   +1 more
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