My bet is, if you're trying to develop more respect for your wife and her beliefs, going to the hall is going to make it worse. In fact, anything you do to learn more about it will make you have less respect. That is because you are intelligent.
You are going to be seriously shocked that people who appear to have their basic wits about them have lost their common sense and critical thinking.
You are going to be disgusted at the control techniques being used--social stigma, doublethink, cognitive dissonance, love bombing, thought stopping.
To you, it will be blatantly obvious and you will not understand why anyone could be taken in by it.
You are going to be alarmed for your wife's wellbeing.