Not completely surprised but the fact that attendance didn't show up stronger in the results...

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🚨 Download a copy “Institutional Anomie, Religious Ecologies, and Violence in American Communities” [https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/nr6q5_v1] for our motivation for the analysis and a discussion of the findings. 8/8

We draw on Institutional Anomie Theory’s ideas of economic dominance of institutions and Durkheim’s insight about religious distinctions to understand these patterns. 7/

📊 The total effect (both direct and indirect) for changes in the evangelical adherent rate is the largest in the model. 6/

📊 Increases in the Catholic adherent rate and the evangelical adherent rate are indirectly associated with increases in homicide, while increases in the mainline Protestant adherent rate are indirectly associated with decreases in homicide. 5/

📊 We find that that increases in the evangelical adherent rate are directly associated with increases in homicide rates, while increases in the Catholic adherent rate are directly associated with decreases in homicide rates. 4/

… in “Institutional Anomie, Religious Ecologies, and Violence in American Communities” we use national longitudinal county-level data spanning four time points (1980 to 2010) and fixed effects spatial modeling which parcels effects into direct and indirect (spillover) effects. 3/

The study asks whether effects differ for rates of Catholics, evangelical Protestants, mainline Protestants, and Latter-Day Saints. To answer this … 2/

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