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- Title
Education, Social Mobility and Religious Movements: The Islamic Revival in Egypt.
- Authors
Binzel, Christine; Carvalho, Jean‐Paul
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
ISLAMIC renewal; SOCIAL mobility; REVIVALS (Religion); ECONOMIC development; JAMIYAT al-Ikhwan al-Muslimin (Egypt)
- Publication
Economic Journal, 2017, Vol 127, Issue 607, p2553
- ISSN
0013-0133
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ecoj.12416