Fear Studies: Does This Topic Control Our Society? | Insight From An Expert
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Joining us in this episode is Dr. Christopher D. Bader, a Professor of Sociology at Chapman University and an affiliate of the Institute for Religion, Economics and Society (IRES). Dr. Bader has been a sociologist for years, and early on in his career, he became interested in the decline of conventional religion. Where are people turning to instead? He found that many individuals fill this spiritual void with UFOs, ghosts, bigfoot, and other paranormal phenomena…
Dr. Bader has been the principal investigator of the first two waves of the Baylor Religion Survey, a nationwide survey of US religious beliefs and the principal investigator of the first three waves of the Chapman Survey of American Fears. He has also written two books, America's Four Gods and Paranormal America and has published 35 articles and chapters in the fields of sociology, deviance, criminology, the sociology of religion and education.
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- How surveys can help preserve religious data over time.
- The role that fear plays in various social phenomena.
- What Americans are afraid of.
- The relationship between religion and fear.
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| 0:30.0 | This is the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:33.0 | That is Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:41.0 | My guest is a professor Christopher Bader. |
| 0:43.2 | He's a professor and chair of sociology, part of the Department of Sociology at Chapman University. |
| 0:48.6 | He's affiliated with the Institute for Religion, Economics, and Society, IRES. |
| 0:53.2 | He's co-director of the annual Chapman University Survey of American Fears. |
| 0:58.0 | I was also Associate Director of the Association of Religion Data Archives, the Arda, THE A-R-D-A-D-A-D-C-A-D-C-A-D-C-A-G-G-A-G-G-A-G-G-A-D-G-G-A-G-G-T-A-G-T-A-G-T-A-G-G-G-T-A-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-A-G-G-G-G Foundation. So welcome Chris, thanks for coming. Well, thanks for having you. |
| 1:14.0 | If you would, tell me a bit about your background and how you got to study the like data on the thing you like to. |
| 1:19.0 | Sure. Well, I've been a sociologist for years and when I started studying religion, I started to really notice, as this is not controversial, most religion scholars have noticed this, is a decline in conventional religion. |
| 1:34.0 | People, when you ask them what they are, or are you a Catholic or a |
| 1:38.0 | Presbyterian or a Lutheran, they will say nothing and that increase really |
| 1:42.0 | interested me and I started looking into those folks and seeing that they were not turning into atheists, they were turning into something else. |
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