What 1.3 billion Muslims really think : an answer to a recent Gallup study, based on the World Values Survey / Arno Tausch.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 528-579) and index.

Amitai Etizoni on Islam -- Anti-Enlightenment prejudice in a nutshell : the covenant of the Islamic resistance movement--Hamas -- Inglehart and the consequences : Islam on the map of global value changes--a first assessment -- Euro-Islam and Europe's leading culture : 6.6 million homophobes among 229 million tax evaders? -- The global protest potential against the "Washington consensus" (=liberal market economy + liberal democracy + sexual permissiveness + secularization) -- Another look at Asabiyya : the social cohesion of society -- The northward migration of global intolerance and the global tolerance index -- Simon Kuznets revisited : the U-shaped tradeoff between tolerance and development -- Active society, tolerance and development : the cross-national evidence -- "Who are we"? : a factor analysis of global value differences -- By way of conclusion : how much secularization is necessary, and how much secularization is recommendable? -- Analysis of WVS data : methodological notes on sample size, error probability, sample composition, et cetera -- What the Gallup booklet unfortunately does not tell you : what Muslims really think--the data from the World Values Survey, with a full documentation and the original SPSS XIV/XV tables, and the most important survey results for the Muslim global sample from the World Values Survey -- IBN Khaldoun revisited : a factor analytical model of central World Values Survey indicators -- The active society index -- Islam and Enlightenment : the possible way ahead--a quantitative view ; the cross-national determinants of economic growth, the active society, global tolerance, traditional values, the intransparent society and Asabiyya -- Mapping the world civilizations : is Islam compatible with Enlightenment? A factor analytical model -- Secularization--how much? Some further materials on the Scylla and Charybdis on the path to modernization and the governance of value change -- Muslims are no security risk in a multicultural Europe : a World Values Survey comparison of European Union, EEA and EFTA country opinions on major issues and social realities by the major religious groups in Europe.