There is a link between religiosity and belief in conspiracy theories

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Empirical studies indicate a positive relationship between individual religiosity and the tendency to endorse conspiracy theories.

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Both retrieved empirical studies explicitly test and find a positive association between religiosity and belief in conspiracy theories, supporting the claim.

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Trust in crisis

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Asbjørn Dyrendal, Knut Hestad. Trust in crisis. 2021. https://doi.org/10.30664/ar.107485

Trust in crisis (2021) found that religiosity was directly associated with conspiracy beliefs about COVID-19 in their sample.

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The impact of partisanship and religiosity on conspiracy‐theory beliefs in Turkey

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Türkay Salim Nefes, Ozan Aksoy. The impact of partisanship and religiosity on conspiracy‐theory beliefs in Turkey. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.13152

The impact of partisanship and religiosity on conspiracy-theory beliefs in Turkey (2023) confirmed that religiosity predicts people's beliefs in conspiracy theories.

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