After the seventeenth century, rulers across Europe attempted reforms to replace amateur administrators with professional bureaucrats. The success of administrative reforms hinged on whether rulers could compensate entrenched ...

Catholicism and Protestantism have different ways of promoting the family unit that could influence survival and fertility at a population level. Parish records in the Austrian village of Hallstatt allowed the reconstruction ...

Using regional data for about 180 African provinces, we find that measures of Protestant missionary activity in the past are more correlated with schooling variables today than similar measures of Catholic missionary ...

Religious actors regularly participate in political debates in Latin America. In Argentina, Historical Protestant Churches have been politically involved in several debates since the 1970s. This article compares twoprocesses ...

In February 2018, the National Campaign for Legal, Safe and Free Abortion held a massive protest in front of the Argentinian Congress, and a few days later, President Mauricio Macri decided to allow legislative discussion ...

This work aimed to understand the social problems involving Catholicism and Protestantism, during the 1860s and 1880s, in Recife. We ve observed all the speeches presented in newspapers by that time,specially in Jornal ...

This work aimed to understand the social problems involving Catholicism and Protestantism, during the 1860s and 1880s, in Recife. We ve observed all the speeches presented in newspapers by that time,specially in Jornal ...