Christian missions and anti-gay attitudes in Africa
| Autor: | Maxim Ananyev, Michael Poyker |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Economics and Econometrics education.field_of_study 05 social sciences Causal effect Christian faith Population social sciences Christianity Colonialism humanities Indigenous 0506 political science Religious conversion 0502 economics and business 050602 political science & public administration Ethnology Sociology 050207 economics education health care economics and organizations |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 184:359-374 |
| ISSN: | 0167-2681 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jebo.2021.02.003 |
| Popis: | We argue that colonial Christian missions had a long-term impact on anti-gay attitudes in Africa. We use a geo-coded representative survey of African countries and the location of historical Christian missions to estimate a significant and economically meaningful association between proximity to historical missions and anti-gay sentiments today. Using anthropological data on pre-colonial acceptance of homosexual practices among indigenous groups, we show that the establishment of missions, while nonrandom, was exogenous to pre-existing same-sex patterns among indigenous population. The estimated effect is driven by persons of Christian faith and statistically indistinguishable from zero on samples of Muslims, nonbelievers, and followers of traditional indigenous religions. Thus, we argue that our results are indicative of a causal effect of missionary religious conversion to Christianity. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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