Resources
Overview and introduction to field experiments of religion
Initial debate about the feasibility of field experiments of religion
Batson, C. Daniel. 1977. “Experimentation in Psychology of Religion: An Impossible Dream.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 16(4):413–18.
Yeatts, John R., and William Asher. 1979. “Can We Afford Not to Do True Experiments in Psychology of Religion? A Reply to Batson.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion: 86-89.
Gorsuch, Richard L. 1982. “Practicality and Ethics of Experimental Research When Studying Religion.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 21(4):370–72
Ethical considerations
Nielsen, Richard A. 2016. “Ethics for Experimental Manipulation of Religion.” In Ethics and Experiments: Problems and Solutions for Social Scientists and Policy Professionals, edited by Scott Desposato, pp. 42–65. Routledge.
Morton, Rebecca and Jonathan Rogers. 2016. “Religion, Experiments, and Ethical Concerns. In Ethics and Experiments: Problems and Solutions for Social Scientists and Policy Professionals, edited by Scott Desposato, pp. 66–80. Routledge.
Field experiments in general
Duflo, Esther and Abhijit Banerjee (eds). 2017 Handbook of Field Experiments, Volumes 1 and 2. Elsevier.
Gerber, Alan S., and Donald P. Green. 2012. Field Experiments: Design, Analysis, and Interpretation. WW Norton.
