Foreword (Rodney Stark) I The Economics of Religion 1 Conversion to Latin American Protestantism and the Case for Religious Motivation (Rodney Stark and Buster G. Smith) 2 Religious Competition and Revival in Italy: Exploring European Exceptionalism (Massimo Introvigne and Rodney Stark) 3 Religious Monopolies, Religious Pluralism, and Secularization: The Relationship between Religious Pluralism and Religious Participation in Sweden (Eva M. Hamberg) 4 Folk Temples and the Chinese Religious Economy (Graeme Lang, Selina Ching Chan, and Lars Ragvald) 5 The Effect of Religious Affiliation and Religious Markets on Islamophobia in Four European Nations (Linda A. Lockett and Ted G. Jelen) II Religion and Tension 6 Retention Strategies and Religious Success: A Regional Comparison of American Jews (Michael K. Abel) 7 Explaining Atheism: Testing the Secondary Compensator Model and Proposing an Alternative (Laura A. Hunter) 8 Consensus and Conflict: Abortion, Mainline Protestants, and Religious Restructuring Since 1960 (Sabrina Danielsen) 9 Whom Do People Dislike More: Atheists or Cultists? (Ryan T. Cragun, Patrick Henry, Casey P.

Homan, and Joseph Hammer) III The Persistence of Religion 10 Neighbors in the Pews: Social Status Diversity in Religious Congregations (Philip Schwadel) 11 Estimating the Global Muslim Population: Size and Distribution of the World?s Muslim Population (Brian J. Grim and Becky Hsu) 12 The Collapse of Secular Social Capital and Religious Revival in Rural China: An Empirical Study (Xiuhua Wang) 13 Family Networks and the Growth of The Church of Almighty God (Massimo Introvigne) 14 Heads Down, Hearts Up: How Ukrainian Baptists Make Meaning from Their Memories of Soviet State-Sanctioned Religious Persecution (Gregory S. Morrow and Mary E. Grigsby).