Religious History of America and Economic Growth



Religious History of America and Economic Growth

Introduction

Religion is the most common concept in the human life. Every person knows and understands the idea and the ideology of his own religion. There are many religions following in today's world. Religion provides the way of complete behavior of life and deals with the personal faith and believes. It is also believed that religion affects the demography and society in psychological and sociological ways. Research of the religion produces the ways to boost the economics of the states or country at different levels. The thought of linking development and the religion grew from the fundamental thought that religion affects the rate of fertility. In our daily lives, the religion matters for most of the cases such as marriage, life partner, worship, women's issues and various other types of activities.

It is usually discussed that religious connection means a lot because it impacts on the actual costs and the advantages of many interrelated doings that people do in every day of their life cycle. The effects of religion on society are very significant, and the existence of various religions in the society lead to a disturbance of believes, moral, and norms that ultimately affects the economy. However, its effects are many, but the intensities may be unpredictable. On the basis of these argues and it is believed that religion has great impacts on economic growth. Polarization phenomenon plays a dominant role in the creating the tension, and social unrest in society.

Many research papers published on the relationship between economic growth and religious variables. It is produced that the religious believes show the positive results for the economic growth mainly heaven and hell. This concept widely varies in the world, country to country, religion to religion. It is also researched that the belonging affect the personal religion believes, which contribute in the individual's economic growth. One prominent literature is the hypothesis of secularization, where economic boost causes people to be less religious that are predicted by counting the attendance of church and personal's believes. It also counters the idea that economic development results developed religion to minimal role in the field of politics and legal procession. This theory is controversial and significant competing hypothesis on the supply side and market forces. In this approach, the focus is on the economic development rather than other religion's demand factor and among the religious people. In this scenario, more types of religions in the people create greater competition between them.

America's Religions History

Religion history of United States was full of the religions of Native Americans. These religions were mostly divided into characters such as Panentheism and Animism. These had multiple beliefs like hidden universal force, omnipresent, the Shaman and communal ceremony, omnipresent, and control of powers of birth, life and death. Continuous wave of the Europe's ethnic groups introduced the traditional churches, especially German Americans and English took protestant denomination and Catholicism. There the established churches that the tax money on ...