Noel D. Johnson and Mark Koyama’s book, Persecution Toleration: The Long Road to Religious Freedom, examines the links between religion, state action, development of liberalism in medieval Europe. It discusses a model “conditional toleration”; how interaction religion influences persecution discrimination against minorities; religious freedom eventually paved way for scientific advances, libera...

This paper examines relationships between religion and two forms of homonegativity across 43 European countries using a bivariate response binary logistic multilevel model. The model analyzes effects of religious believing, belonging and practice on two response variables: a) a moral rejection of homosexuality as a practice and b) intolerance toward homosexuals as a group. The findings indicate...

Despite patterns of secularisation across Europe, religion continues to exert influence. Besides theological belief, is deeply integrated into daily life as a social institution and marker...

The study was designed to re nature of Calvinist’s Protestant Christians which gave birth to the emergence of capitalism and industrial development of Europe, presents the same effect in Calabar where Protestant religion flourished for over 150 years”. Purposive sampling method was utilized to select Protestant Christians from five Protestant Churches in Calabar. A sample of 500 subjects was ac...