o:id
	5009
url
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/5009
o:resource_template
	Journal article
o:resource_class
	bibo:AcademicArticle
dcterms:title
	The Political Sources of Religious Identification: Evidence from the Burkina Faso-Côte d'Ivoire Border
dcterms:publisher
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/25033
dcterms:date
	2017
dcterms:type
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8475
dcterms:identifier
	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113524332 Q113524332
	iwac-reference-0000029
dcterms:language
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8322
dcterms:abstract
	Under what conditions does religion become a salient social identity? By measuring religious attachment among the people living astride the Burkina Faso–Côte d'Ivoire border in West Africa, an arbitrary boundary that exposes otherwise similar individuals to different political contexts, this article makes a case for the importance of the political environment in affecting the weight that people attach to their religious identities. After ruling out explanations rooted in the proportion of different religious denominations, the degree of secularization and the supply of religious institutions on either side of the border, as well as differences in the degree of religious pluralism at the national level, it highlights the greater exposure of Ivorian respondents to the politicization of religion during Côte d'Ivoire's recent civil conflict. Methodologically, the study demonstrates the power – and challenges – of exploiting Africa's arbitrary borders as a source of causal leverage.
dcterms:spatial
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/546
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/298
bibo:authorList
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/1253
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/1270
bibo:doi
	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123416000594 10.1017/S0007123416000594
bibo:issue
	2
bibo:pageEnd
	441
bibo:pageStart
	421
bibo:volume
	49

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