Is the importance of religion in daily life related to social trust? Cross-country and cross-state comparisons

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Islam and democracy (2010, background): “See Berggren and Bjørnskov (2010) on religion and social trust.”
In Advertising We Trust: Religiosity's Influence on Marketplace and Relational Trust (2015, background): “Specifically, “religions may cause division and rift, both in that religious people may distrust those who do not share their beliefs and who are not subject to the same enforcement mechanisms as they are” (Berggren and Bjørnskov 2011, 474).”
Does Religion Affect Economic Growth and Happiness? Evidence from Ramadan* (2015, unknown): “…drink, as well as smoking and sexual activities, between dawn and sunset during the entire month.6 Ramadan fasting entails obvious physiological consequences because of the constraints it places on the ingestion of food and liquids, and these have been extensively studied in the medical literature.”
Trust, welfare states and income equality: Sorting out the causality (2014, methodology): “We predict social trust by dummies for post-communist countries, constitutional monarchies and theNordic countries, and the Gallup (2009)measure of the salience and intensity of religiosity, following recent work in Berggren and Bjørnskov (2011).”