The secularizing effect of education in Indonesia

Javad Eshtiyagh

International Journal of Educational Development, 2022, vol. 94, issue C

Abstract: Does education influence support for the separation of religion and governance? This question is particularly important in the context of today’s Muslim-majority nations. I analyze data on a large school construction program in Indonesia to investigate the relationship at the micro level. Implementing a difference-in-differences framework, the results indicate that the rise in the level of educational attainment increased the tendency toward secularization. Furthermore, the findings show that people who believe in the majority religion but live in extremely religious or extremely non-religious regions are more likely to change their opinions on secularization as a consequence of educational attainment.

Keywords: Secularization; Education; Economic Development; Religion; Modernization theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2022.102658

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