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Financial Crisis, Relative Trust, and Religious Participation and Affiliation

Magdefrau, Melissa
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1438355418

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2015, Master of Arts, Miami University, Economics.
By examining the way in which a financial crisis affects religious participation and affiliation via a financial crisis’s effect on relative trust, where relative trust is defined as trust in organized religion relative to trust in secular institutions, relative trust is being identified as one possible mechanism through which a financial crisis causes changes in religiosity. Using U.S. data from the most recent financial crisis, I find that a financial crisis leads to an increase in religious participation and affiliation via the financial crisis’s effect on relative trust, when defined as trust in organized religion relative to either trust in banks and financial institutions or trust in the military. By empirically determining possible mechanisms through which a financial crisis leads to increased religiosity, the way a financial crisis could affect terrorism can be better understood, along with better understanding how religious institutions survive for centuries while secular institutions oftentimes collapse.
Prosper Raynold (Advisor)
Jing Li (Committee Member)
Ejindu Ume (Committee Member)
45 p.
Economics
financial crisis; relative trust; trust in institutions; religious participation; religious affiliation

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  • Magdefrau, M. (2015). Financial Crisis, Relative Trust, and Religious Participation and Affiliation [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1438355418

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Magdefrau, Melissa. Financial Crisis, Relative Trust, and Religious Participation and Affiliation. 2015. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1438355418.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Magdefrau, Melissa. "Financial Crisis, Relative Trust, and Religious Participation and Affiliation." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1438355418

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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