4.2 Religion and Population Growth

The interface's craft: the religion's demographic faces (the fertility's norms-and-values (the children's blessing theology; the contraception's contested faces); the marriage's religious frames (the universality's expectation; the early-marriage practice's religious-social blend)); the Nepali mosaic's picture (the Hindu majority's-and-the minorities' fertility differentials (the socio-economic- not-doctrinal explanation's discipline (the education's-and-the access's real drivers — the religion's proxy effect (the statistical caution)))); the law's faces (the secular state's Constitution (Article 4's craft — the religious freedom (Article 26) beside the population policy's rights-based frame (the coercion's bar))); the honest analysis (the religion's FERTILITY EFFECT works THROUGH the education-and-access variables (the policy's target: the services' universality (not the belief's contest))).