Concluding Remarks

Jason García Portilla
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Jason García Portilla: University of St. Gallen

Chapter Chapter 25 in Ye Shall Know Them by Their Fruits, 2022, pp 353-354 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter provides some brief concluding remarks. This study contributes to existing research in the sociology of religion and development studies fields by demonstrating the effect of the mutually reinforcing configuration of multiple prosperity triggers (religion–political–environment). Historical Protestantism largely influenced prosperity by promoting education, by secularising institutions, and by stabilising democracy. Protestantism has also proven highly influential in the successive historical law revolutions that gradually mitigated the power of pervasive feudal institutions and of papalist medieval canon law. In contrast, traditionally Roman Catholic countries have generally upheld a medieval model of extractivist institutions until anti-clerical (non-communist) movements were able to weaken this influence in some countries.

Keywords: Prosperity; Competitiveness; Corruption; Environment; Geography; Topography; Latitude; Institutional religion; Legal origin; Proportion of adherents; Syncretism; Communism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-78498-0_25

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