The relationship between the degree of religiosity and economic development is empirically investigated for a cross-section of all Turkish cities with municipal authorities. It is found that economic development and the degree of religiosity have a non-linear relationship. Religiosity increases with industrialization first, however, as the industrialization increases more, the degree of religiosity decreases. Coastal towns are less religious. Mosques and schools are complements rather than substitutes as they affect each other positively. This can be interpreted as the ideological competition between religious communities and secularists.
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ReDIF This chapter was published in: Sacit Hadi Akdede & Hakan Hotunluoðlu Proceedings of the Conference on Emerging Economic Issues in a Globalizing World, , pages 261-271, 2008.
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