In crisis, we pray: Religiosity and the COVID-19 pandemic

Bentzen, Jeanet Sinding

doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2021.10.014

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“…Religiosity is considered to be a factor that helps in coping with distress, because in crisis situations people declaring faith show a tendency to turn to religion for explanation and comfort (Pajarianto et al, 2020 ). This association has also been observed during the COVID-19 pandemic (Bentzen, 2020 ; Rababa et al, 2021 ).…”

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Religiosity and the Spread of COVID-19: A Multinational Comparison

Linke

Jankowski

2022

J Relig Health

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This article considers the relationships between population religiosity and the coronavirus pandemic situation across different countries. Country-level analyses were based on data from the World Values Survey, Worldometer, and International Monetary Fund covering information about internal (beliefs) and external (practices) religiosity, religious fundamentalism, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the economic situation at two time points in 47 countries. Results showed that declared attendance at religious services is related to more COVID-19 infections and deaths, as well as when controlling for gross domestic product per capita and the number of coronavirus tests per 1 million population. This effect remained in the longitudinal perspective (of six months) and extended from external religiosity only, to both internal and external religiosity indices. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10943-022-01521-9.

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Religiosity and the Spread of COVID-19: A Multinational Comparison

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Jankowski

2022

J Relig Health

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“…Another critical phenomenon, targeting a particular community for the outbreak, was also common in the present pandemic . Furthermore, Bentzen (2020) argued that in times of a crisis like the Covid-19 pandemic, humans have a general tendency to turn to religion for relaxation and release (Bentzen, 2020). Extensive Google searches for religious terms compared to all other searches during this pandemic provide a signal of people's interest in religion in crisis time.…”

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“…reflects their interests and actions in the real world (Moat, Olivola, Chater, & Preis, 2016). Therefore, people's unreasonable search for religious terms and coronavirus prayer on the internet reflects their religious preferences in this crisis (Bentzen, 2020).…”

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“…Using daily data on Google searches, it is found that the Covid-19 crisis has increased Google searches for prayer in comparison to all Google searches, which is the highest level ever recorded (Bentzen, 2020). Existing research identified that human behavior on the internet reflects their interests and actions in the real world (Moat, Olivola, Chater, & Preis, 2016).…”

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“…Searches for the topics related to prayer in all languages, other religious terms such as God, Allah, Muhammad, Quran, Bible, Jesus, Buddha, Vishnu, Shiva, and so on also rise. Some data have clearly shown the intensified level of prayer in times of a crisis event (Bentzen, 2020)..After the WHO's declaration of Covid-19 as a pandemic, Google searches for prayer have surpassed all other significant events. The level of search in March 2020 was more than 50% higher than February 2020.…”

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Religious beliefs and the behavior of people during COVID-19 crisis

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Religion is a powerful, long-standing, pervasive, and at the same time, most influential social force, whereas its social power can be used either in helpful ways to slow the spread of Covid-19 or in harmful ways that favor the rapid spread of the virus. While various religious communities played a central role in spreading COVID-19 in various spheres of the globe, intensive debates about physical distancing and its implications for religious gathering have brought religious topics onto agendas. Additionally, there are various religious stigmas, superstitious beliefs, stereotype ideas, arrogancies, targeting a particular community for the outbreak, disobeying nature of the government orders have also emerged in the scenario during the pandemic world is facing right now. However, following a qualitative narrative approach based on secondary materials, the study attempted to investigate the actual responses of various religious communities across the world in the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, the study concluded by explaining the potential role of religious leaders in this crisis.

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Medical occupation preference under the influence of the COVID‐19 pandemic: The role of risk and altruistic preferences

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We examine the influence of the COVID‐19 pandemic on medical occupation preference, focusing on Wuhan, China. We conducted a survey of 5686 respondents in China regarding the influence of the COVID‐19 pandemic on medical occupation preference. We also conducted a complimentary survey in the UK with 1198 respondents, as well as a field experiment in Wuhan with 428 first and second‐year medical students. We find a significant negative impact of the pandemic on the willingness to let a loved one choose a medical occupation. Individuals who were heavily influenced by the pandemic, that is, Wuhan residents, especially medical workers, express significantly lower medical occupation preference. Further analysis from Sobel‐Goodman mediation tests reveals that around half of the total negative effect can be mediated by enhanced risk aversion and reduced altruism. The UK survey and the field experiment with medical students in Wuhan reinforce these findings. Our results suggest a shift in medical workers' risk‐ and altruistic‐preferences has led to a reduced medical occupation preference. Non‐medical workers and students who are more altruistic and risk‐seeking are more likely to choose a medical occupation.

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In crisis, we pray: Religiosity and the COVID-19 pandemic

Cited by 235 publications

References 64 publications

Religiosity and the Spread of COVID-19: A Multinational Comparison

Religiosity and the Spread of COVID-19: A Multinational Comparison

Religious beliefs and the behavior of people during COVID-19 crisis

Medical occupation preference under the influence of the COVID‐19 pandemic: The role of risk and altruistic preferences

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