Reference for Maoz-Henderson religion data/code

[philip-schrodt]

The data set and codebook are here:

http://www.correlatesofwar.org/data-sets/world-religion-data

I'd add a couple more categories, e.g. Tibetan to Buddhism, maybe Mormon and Pentecostal to Christian (also not clear why Anglican is a separate category), probably a "New religious movements", category, and a couple more "Other" categories, but otherwise that looks about right, and isn't that different than Wikipedia (albeit Wikipedia gets a few NRMs whose rituals/outreach apparently involves writing Wikipedia entries). Maoz-Henderson codes look pretty much like ours anyway, so we could modify those slightly. Gets us something more workable than CAMEORCS and more systematic than ICEWS.

[philip-schrodt]

I think I posted this somewhere earlier but here's GDELT's from

http://gdeltproject.org/data/lookups/CAMEO.religion.txt

Again, not as bad as ICEWS and relatively compact, but doesn't incorporate the fact these are naturally hierarchical. This must have been derived from a Middle East set (hmmm, like maybe from a KEDS codebook at some point...) since globally Copts, Maronites, Druze and Hasidim are fairly small. Though like everything else in PLOVER, possibly specify some defaults (or defer to CAMEORCS) if one does use these? Or do an "Other" + text-field?

CODE LABEL ADR African Diasporic Religion ALE Alewi ATH Agnostic BAH Bahai Faith BUD Buddhism CHR Christianity CON Confucianism CPT Coptic CTH Catholic DOX Orthodox DRZ Druze HIN Hinduism HSD Hasidic ITR Indigenous Tribal Religion JAN Jainism JEW Judaism JHW Jehovah's Witness LDS Latter Day Saints MOS Muslim MRN Maronite NRM New Religious Movement PAG Pagan PRO Protestant SFI Sufi SHI Shia SHN Old Shinto School SIK Sikh SUN Sunni TAO Taoist UDX Ultra-Orthodox ZRO Zoroastrianism