Packet 5: Bonus 10
Kenneth Pargament and Harold Koenig became the 2010s’ most-cited social scientists of this topic through their psychometric work on its role in coping mechanisms. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this variable that Christian Smith studies in adolescents. It names a subfield of sociology associated with Rodney Stark.
ANSWER: religious belief [or word forms like religion or religiosity; accept faith or belief in God or equivalents; accept going to church, being a member of a sect, or equivalents; prompt on belief; prompt on, but DO NOT REVEAL, spirituality or word forms like spiritual]
[10m] Pargament’s “The bitter and the sweet” notes that members of these religious movements report greater psychological well-being. This term describes believers in biblical inerrancy who battled modernists in a namesake 1920s “controversy.”
ANSWER: fundamentalist [or fundamentalism]
[10e] Pargament also co-authored the first study measuring this identity, which often draws on New Age beliefs. People are more likely to believe that animals have souls and to own crystals if they identify as “[this]-but-not-religious.”
ANSWER: spiritual [accept “spiritual but not religious” or SBNR or “spiritual but not affiliated” or “more spiritual than religious” or any combination of spiritual and non-religious; accept spirituality; reject “spiritualist” or “spiritist”; reject “atheist,” “agnostic,” or similar]
<Editors, Religion> | N. Playoffs 5 (Editors 5)
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 16.67 | 100% | 54% | 13% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago B | Maryland B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Columbia A | Virginia Tech | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Columbia B | Georgia Tech A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HME |
| Georgia Tech B | Bruin | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Illinois A | Cambridge | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Illinois B | Cornell | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Indiana | Chicago A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Johns Hopkins | Virginia | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Maryland A | Northwestern A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Michigan | NYU B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| NYU A | UC Berkeley A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| North Carolina | Brown | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Northwestern B | Swarthmore | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Ohio State | Stanford B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HME |
| Penn State | Rutgers | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Pittsburgh | Georgia Tech C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Purdue | UCF | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Stanford A | Toronto A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Texas | Vanderbilt | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Toronto B | Minnesota | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| UC Berkeley B | Harvard | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| UCLA | British Columbia | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| WashU | MIT | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HME |
| Waterloo | Georgetown | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 24 | 16.67 | 100% | 54% | 13% |