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Published on: November 10, 2023
Death anxiety, exposure to death, mortuary preferences, and religiosity in five countries
Jonathan Jong1, Jamin Halberstadt2, Matthias Bluemke3
1Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. jonathan.jong@anthro.ox.ac.uk.
Abstract:
We present three datasets from a project about the relationship between death anxiety and religiosity. These include data from 1,838 individuals in the United States (n = 813), Brazil (n = 800), Russia (n = 800), the Philippines (n = 200), South Korea (n = 200), and Japan (n = 219). Measures were largely consistent across samples: they include measures of death anxiety, experience of and exposure to death, religious belief, religious behaviour, religious experience, and demographic information. Responses have also been back-translated into English where necessary, though original untranslated data are also included.
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