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