This article explores religion and religiosity in the field of entrepreneurship. Based on an original, international dataset of 740 students, we examine the impact of individual religious affiliation (Protestant, Catholic or Muslim) or non-affiliation (Agnostic/Atheist) on entrepreneurial intentions. We further examine the influence of individual religiosity (beyond mere religious affiliation) on entrepreneurial intentions, offering new insights as to the role religion and religiosity play in entrepreneurship. Findings support the notion that religion matters when entrepreneurial intentions are concerned. We show that having a religious affiliation – as compared to identifying as an Agnostic/Atheist – has a positive relationship with entrepreneurial intentions. More importantly, we show that religiosity – not just religious affiliation – affects intentions differently across different religions, thus pointing to the importance of taking religiosity into account, and not only religious affiliation. We also show that followers of a specific religion cannot be regarded as a uniform group when it comes to entrepreneurship and that it is important to differentiate between streams.

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四个国家学生的个人宗教信仰、宗教信仰和创业意愿

本文探讨了创业领域的宗教和宗教信仰。基于 740 名学生的原始国际数据集，我们研究了个人宗教信仰（新教、天主教或穆斯林）或非信仰宗教（不可知论/无神论者）对创业意图的影响。我们进一步研究了个人宗教信仰（不仅仅是宗教信仰）对创业意图的影响，为宗教和宗教信仰在创业中的作用提供了新的见解。研究结果支持了当涉及到创业意图时宗教很重要的观点。我们表明，与确定为不可知论者/无神论者相比，拥有宗教信仰与创业意图呈正相关。更重要的是，我们表明，宗教信仰——不仅仅是宗教信仰——对不同宗教的意图的影响不同，因此指出了考虑宗教信仰的重要性，而不仅仅是宗教信仰。我们还表明，在创业方面，不能将特定宗教的追随者视为一个统一的群体，区分不同的流派很重要。