Finance and Fervor: The Effects of Economic Insecurity on Political Religiosity

• In Event: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Secularization and Modernization

Brief Overview

We ask what effect economic insecurity has on institutional religiosity. Using GDP contractions from the 2008 global economic crisis, we test our hypothesis that greater economic insecurity leads to greater levels of institutional religiosity.

Authors

• Alec Hahus, University of Notre Dame

• Hannah Early Bagdanov, University of Notre Dame