Statistical dynamics of religion evolutions |
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Authors: | M. Ausloos |
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Affiliation: | a GRAPES, B5 Sart-Tilman, B-4000 Liège, Euroland, Belgium b Universitá dell’Aquila, I-67010, L’Aquila, Italy |
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Abstract: | A religion affiliation can be considered as a “degree of freedom” of an agent on the human genre network. A brief review is given on the state of the art in data analysis and modelization of religious “questions” in order to suggest and if possible initiate further research, after using a “statistical physics filter”. We present a discussion of the evolution of 18 so-called religions, as measured through their number of adherents between 1900 and 2000. Some emphasis is made on a few cases presenting a minimum or a maximum in the investigated time range—thereby suggesting a competitive ingredient to be considered, besides the well accepted “at birth” attachment effect. The importance of the “external field” is still stressed through an Avrami late stage crystal growth-like parameter. The observed features and some intuitive interpretations point to opinion based models with vector, rather than scalar, like agents. |
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Keywords: | 89.65.-s 89.75.Fb 05.45.Tp 05.65.+b 81.10.Aj |
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