THE EFFECTS OF PROVINCIAL AND INDIVIDUAL RELIGIOSITY ON DEVIANCE IN CHINA: A MULTILEVEL MODELING TEST OF THE MORAL COMMUNITY THESIS

The Effects of Provincial and Individual Religiosity on Deviance in China: A Multilevel Modeling Test of the Moral Community Thesis

This paper examines the moral community thesis in the secular context of China.Using multilevel logistic regression, we test (1) whether both individual- (measured by affiliation Umckaloabo with Islam, Buddhism and Christianity) and aggregate-level religiosity (measured by the number of mosques, Buddhist temples, and churches per 10,000 people in p

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Indigenous weather and climate forecasting knowledge among Afar pastoralists of north eastern Ethiopia: Role in adaptation to weather and climate variability

Abstract Traditional weather and climate forecasting is used by many indigenous communities worldwide as a guide in making important decisions that enable them cope and adapt to climate change-induced extreme weather variation.In many pastoral communities in Africa, traditional Board weather and climate forecasting remains the most accessible and a

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