We test whether immigrants are more prone to support terror than natives because of lower opportunity costs, using the international World Values Survey data. We show that, in general, economically, politically and socially non-integrated persons are more likely to accept using violence for achieving political goals, consistent with the economic model of crime. We also find evidence for the des...

Beliefs and customs surrounding death, funeral rites, and mourning provide a window into a society’s most deeply held values. In the monotheistic faith of Islam, eschatology – belief in the Day of Judgment (Yawm al-din) and resurrection (al-qiyama) – underlies many practices. Public mourning rituals that commemorate the deaths of saints and martyrs are closely linked to the concept of salvation...

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this essay is a studying the structure of the social mentality of the iranian society in establishment situation of political islam discourse. after the event of the islamic revolution in iran, political islam as the central ideology of the new political system gained a dominant and almost incontestable position. political disputes constituted in the following years led to the genesis of partic...

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