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Education, social mobility and religious movements: The Islamic revival in Egypt
Ist Teil von
The Economic journal (London), 2017-12, Vol.127 (607), p.2553-2580
Ort / Verlag
Oxford: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr
2017
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Wiley Online Library Journals Frontfile Complete
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Muslim societies have been reshaped in recent decades by an Islamic revival. We document a contemporaneous decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt, the epicentre of the movement in the Arab world. We then develop a model to show how an unexpected decline in social mobility combined with inequality can produce a religious revival led by the educated middle class. The principal idea is that religion helps individuals to cope with unfulfilled aspirations by adjusting their expectations-based reference point. By raising aspirations, economic development may make societies more prone to religious revivals.