The differences in the socio-economic outcomes of majorities and minorities have been well studied in sociology. This article breaks new ground by investigating the effect on religiosity of majority/minority status in two Muslim-majority and two Muslim-minority countries of South and Southeast Asia. Religiosity is conceptualised as a multidimensional phenomenon. The article critically discusses this conceptualisation through an analysis of survey data. The findings show significant differences in the sociological profiles of religiosity in Muslim-majority and Muslim-minority countries. The architecture of religiosity is significantly more orthodox in Muslim-majority countries. The article concludes with a discussion of the implications of the findings for understanding the nature and dynamics of religious orthodoxy, the nature of civil society, religious reform and the role of collective religious social movements.

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为什么规模很重要：南亚和东南亚的多数/少数地位和穆斯林虔诚

社会学已经很好地研究了多数人和少数人的社会经济成果的差异。本文通过调查南亚和东南亚两个穆斯林占多数和两个穆斯林少数民族国家中多数/少数地位对宗教信仰的影响而开辟了新天地。宗教信仰被概念化为一种多维现象。本文通过对调查数据的分析批判性地讨论了这种概念化。研究结果表明，在穆斯林占多数的国家和穆斯林占少数的国家，宗教信仰的社会学特征存在显着差异。宗教信仰的建筑在穆斯林占多数的国家明显更为正统。文章最后讨论了调查结果对理解宗教正统的性质和动态、公民社会的性质、