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Religious Participation After Covid‐19: Evidence From US Catholic Dioceses and Smartphone Data

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do religious rules and regulations affect behavior? We examine this question using changes in Catholic regulations during the Covid‐19 pandemic combined with mobility data from 15 million smartphone users from 2019 to 2022. We first document overall trends: Total religious attendance declined sharply in March 2020 and thereafter recovered ...
Angela Cools   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The US Religious Public and Radical Human Enhancements

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A radical enhancement to the human body or brain is defined as giving human capabilities that no past or present human has possessed. These are being developed by scientists and bioengineers and backed by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. This article reports on the first study of the US religious public's views of radical enhancements using a ...
John H. Evans
wiley   +1 more source

(Dis)Belief in God Among Younger and Older Poles: Analytic Thinking and Cultural Learning Between Generations and Over Time

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Religious disbelief is increasing worldwide, yet its cognitive and cultural foundations remain debated. We examined how analytic thinking and cultural learning shape (dis)belief across generations and over time. Study 1 compared younger (18–39, n = 427) and older (40+, n = 639) Polish adults.
Paweł Łowicki   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Be Fruitful and Multiply? Complementarianism, Pronatalism, and Suppression of Reproductive Rights

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT At least since the second wave of the feminist movement, policy issues related to gender have generated deep social and political divisions. Past work has analyzed the role of general religious variables or gender worldviews (such as various forms of sexism), but not the two in combination.
Brooklyn Walker, Paul A. Djupe
wiley   +1 more source

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