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thank you for invitining me her today. the project i'm going to be telling you a little bit about is in collaboration with my could author who san society professor in turkey, and then, i have a number of my graduate students at the university of maryland involved as well. the motivation for this project is this idea in the literature that the content of religion directly or indirectly produces conflict. and a lot of the evidence for this comes from very detailed and interesting case studies that explain how a particular group uses religion to motivate violence, what we do not have so far is more sort of generalizable theoryizing about patterns that explain the association between religion and violence across contexts and even cross time. and we have very little cross national testing of these ideas as well with the exception of the project that i'll talk about and the one that brian grim will talk b there's not a lot of data sets that aim to test these ideas across context and time. to do this, we build on the well known