Entrepreneurship correlates with conversion away from traditional religion
Evidence
It followed from this that Islam, as defined by its classical texts, was the key lens through which Muslim-majority societies could be understood. If women were oppressed it was because of the teachings of the Koran; if Muslims supposedly lacked an entrepreneurial spirit it was due to “Islamic tradition”; if modernization was rejected, again the Koran was to blame. In short, a whole host of characteristics associated with the West but allegedly absent from the “Muslim world” could be explained by recourse to religious texts and the mentalities they supposedly created. In this book, the term “Muslim world” has been put in quotation marks precisely to challenge the notion that Islam is the single most important factor in defining the people who live in the Middle East, North Africa, and elsewhere, or that there is a single undifferentiated entity called the “Muslim world.” — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 123 (
#qualifies, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Ethical religions broke kinship bonds to enable modern economic development; Attributing every social characteristic to religious texts erases contextual factors — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 123
Related
- Attributing every social characteristic to religious texts erases contextual factors (similarity 0.83)
- Politicizing religion functions as assimilation as well as exclusion (similarity 0.81)
- Philological analysis of key texts established Muslims as static subspecies (similarity 0.81)
- Capitalism emerged ideologically through intensified spiritualization rather than secularization (similarity 0.79)
- A religion’s violence depends on context, not inherent character (similarity 0.79)
- Ethical religions broke kinship bonds to enable modern economic development (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Ethical religions broke kinship bonds to enable modern economic development
#expands(0.80) - Attributing every social characteristic to religious texts erases contextual factors
#qualifies(0.75) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 123