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Wafa Hakim Orman on Religion and Economic Crises

Tags: 2007 Financial Crisis, club goods, collective action problems, Daniel Chen, domestic violence, economic crises, farm crisis, General Social Survey, Google searches, housing crisis, Koran study classes, mortgages, prayer, religion and economics, religious attendance, rituals

Do people respond to economic crises by intensifying their religious practice? Prof. Wafa Hakim Orman (University of Alabama, Huntsville) discusses a set of novel studies she is conducting to see if this is the case. Using the 1980s farm crisis and the 2007-08 housing/financial crises as test cases, Prof. Orman explores if people in the hardest hit areas of these crises attended church more, intensified their prayer, and how this might have an effect on domestic violence. Prof. Orman also provides one of the best and pithiest explanations for why these two economic crises occurred.

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Bradley Wright on SoulPulse

Tags: anchoring bias, Barkington Elementary School kids, Brick House, bunny ears, cell phone, Charlie's Angels, elf in the phone, experience sampling methods, General Social Survey, human-computer interaction, internal review board, poinson ivy, response bias, sampling, self-selection bias, sleep, SoulPulse, spirituality

What better way to celebrate our 200th episode, than to grab some leftover Mother’s Day cake, bring a bunch of school kids into the recording studio, and learn about the future of the social scientific study of religion with our old friend Bradley Wright? Prof. Wright details a new research strategy of studying individual spirituality called SoulPulse. Harnessing the power of cellular phones and other social media technology, Brad and his team of intrepid researchers are gathering data on how individual people experience spiritual beliefs on a day-to-day (if not hour-to-hour). Find out what some of the early results are and how you can participate by listening to the podcast, clicking the “read more” link below, and telling your friends about this awesome study.

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