Did religious freedom exacerbate COVID-19? A global analysis

Did countries that became more repressive of religion during the COVID-19 pandemic, experience more COVID-19 cases and associated fatalities than countries that did not restrict religious freedom? As the pandemic raged across the world, many houses of worship defied governmental orders against publi...

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Główni autorzy: Saiya, Nilay, Manchanda, Stuti, Wadidi, Rahmat
Kolejni autorzy: School of Social Sciences
Format: Journal Article
Język:English
Wydane: 2023
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Dostęp online:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/170060
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description Did countries that became more repressive of religion during the COVID-19 pandemic, experience more COVID-19 cases and associated fatalities than countries that did not restrict religious freedom? As the pandemic raged across the world, many houses of worship defied governmental orders against public worship, leading many pundits, policy makers, and critics of religion to express concern that churches, mosques, synagogues, and other houses of worship would become incubators of COVID-19. In this view, religious freedom was seen as an obstacle to combatting the virus. In this article, we evaluate this proposition. We find that countries that maintained their levels of religious freedom throughout the pandemic were not more likely to witness higher rates of COVID-19 cases and deaths from COVID-19. The results are robust to a number of different model specifications.
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spelling ntu-10356/1700602023-08-23T01:02:44Z Did religious freedom exacerbate COVID-19? A global analysis Saiya, Nilay Manchanda, Stuti Wadidi, Rahmat School of Social Sciences S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies Social sciences::Political science Religious Freedom COVID-19 Did countries that became more repressive of religion during the COVID-19 pandemic, experience more COVID-19 cases and associated fatalities than countries that did not restrict religious freedom? As the pandemic raged across the world, many houses of worship defied governmental orders against public worship, leading many pundits, policy makers, and critics of religion to express concern that churches, mosques, synagogues, and other houses of worship would become incubators of COVID-19. In this view, religious freedom was seen as an obstacle to combatting the virus. In this article, we evaluate this proposition. We find that countries that maintained their levels of religious freedom throughout the pandemic were not more likely to witness higher rates of COVID-19 cases and deaths from COVID-19. The results are robust to a number of different model specifications. 2023-08-23T01:02:43Z 2023-08-23T01:02:43Z 2023 Journal Article Saiya, N., Manchanda, S. & Wadidi, R. (2023). Did religious freedom exacerbate COVID-19? A global analysis. Journal of Religion and Health, 62(4), 2799-2819. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10943-023-01810-x 0022-4197 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/170060 10.1007/s10943-023-01810-x 37016074 2-s2.0-85151571586 4 62 2799 2819 en Journal of Religion and Health © 2023 The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
spellingShingle Social sciences::Political science
Religious Freedom
COVID-19
Saiya, Nilay
Manchanda, Stuti
Wadidi, Rahmat
Did religious freedom exacerbate COVID-19? A global analysis
title Did religious freedom exacerbate COVID-19? A global analysis
title_full Did religious freedom exacerbate COVID-19? A global analysis
title_fullStr Did religious freedom exacerbate COVID-19? A global analysis
title_full_unstemmed Did religious freedom exacerbate COVID-19? A global analysis
title_short Did religious freedom exacerbate COVID-19? A global analysis
title_sort did religious freedom exacerbate covid 19 a global analysis
topic Social sciences::Political science
Religious Freedom
COVID-19
url https://hdl.handle.net/10356/170060
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