A Cross-national Analysis of Religion and Attitudes toward Premarital Sex: Do Economic Contexts Matter?

Sociological Perspectives

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 798-817

  Jung, Jong Hyun ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

deviance; GDP per capita; modernization; multilevel analysis; premarital sex; religion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994201581     PISSN: 07311214     EISSN: 15338673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0731121415595428     Document Type: Article

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