Accordance and conflict between religious and scientific precautions against COVID-19 in 27 societies

Religion, Brain & Behavior • Vol/Iss. 14 • Routledge • • Published In • Pages: 1-19 •
By Samore, Theodore, , Fessler, Daniel M.T., Sparks, Adam Maxwell, Holbrook, Colin, Aarøe, Lene, Baeza, Carmen Gloria, Barbato, María Teresa, Barclay, Pat,, Berniūnas, Renatas, , Contreras-Garduño, Jorge,, Costa-Neves, Bernardo, , del Pilar Grazioso, Maria, Elmas, Pinar, Fedor, Peter, , Fernandez, Ana Maria, , Fernández-Morales, Regina, Garcia-Marques, Leonel, Giraldo-Perez, Paulina, Gul, Pelin, Habacht, Fanny, Hasan, Youssef, , Hernandez. Earl John, Jarmakowski, Tomasz, , Kamble, Shanmukh, Kameda, Tatsuya, Kim, Bia, Kupfer, Tom R., Kurita, Maho, Li, Norman P., Lu, Junsong, Luberti, Francesca R., Maegli, María Andrée, Mejia, Marinés, Morvinski, Coby, Naito, Aoi, Ng'ang'a, Alice, de Oliveira, Angélica Nascimento, Posner, Daniel N., Prokop, Pavol, Shani, Yaniv, Solorzano, Walter Omar Paniagua, Stieger, Stefan, Suryani, Angela Oktavia, Tan, Lynn K.L., Tybur, Joshua M., Viciana, Hugo, Visine, Amandine, Wang, Jin, Wang, Xiao-Tian

Abstract

It is widely accepted that an individual’s cultural environment (the media they consume, the local political climate, etc.) shape their ideas about the compatibility between science and religion. This study explores that theory in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, examining survey data from 7,844 individuals in order to comment on the correlation between the number of religious precautions that each participant was undertaking during the pandemic (e.g. praying) and the number of public health precautions (e.g. masking). Twenty-seven countries are used as a proxy for 27 distinct cultures.

Samples

Sample Used Coded Data Comment
Proprietary Survey DataResearchers' OwnSurvey responses from 7,844 from 27 countries, representing 27 distinct cultures

Hypotheses (1)

HypothesisSupported
Correlation between the number of religious and public health precautions taken against COVID-19 will vary cross-culturally from negative to positive.Supported
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