Blake Victor Kent, James C Davidson, Ying Zhang, Kenneth I Pargament, Tyler J VanderWeele, Harold Koenig, Lynn G Underwood, Neal Krause, Alka M Kanaya, Shelley S Tworoger, Anna B Schachter, Shelley Cole, Marcia O'Leary, Yvette Cozier, Martha Daviglus, Aida L Giachello, Tracy Zacher, Julie R Palmer, Alexandra E Shields
Social scientists have increasingly recognized the lack of diversity in survey research on American religion, resulting in a dearth of data on religion and spirituality (R/S) in understudied racial and ethnic groups. At the same time, epidemiological studies have increasingly diversified their racial and ethnic representation, but have collected few R/S measures to date. With a particular focus on American Indian and South Asian women (in addition to Blacks, Hispanic/Latinas, and white women), this study introduces a new effort among religion and epidemiology researchers, the Study on Stress, Spirituality, and Health (SSSH)...
March 2021: Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion