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ArticleJournal of religion and health2017

Finding Spirits in Spirituality: What are We Measuring in Spirituality and Health Research?

Lance D Laird, Cara E Curtis, Jonathan R Morgan

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Article in Journal of religion and health, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Religious social capital and minority health: A concept analysis.Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Lance D LairdBoston University School of Medicine, 85 E. Newton St., M-1025, Boston, MA, 02118, USA. llaird@bu.edu.
Cara E CurtisGraduate Division of Religion, Laney Graduate School, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Jonathan R MorganGraduate Division of Religious Studies, Boston University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Boston, MA, USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

What are we asking when we ask about spirituality? When research subjects check survey boxes for "religiosity" and "spirituality" measures on health surveys, those of us who use them often assume that these responses indicate a relationship with-or reaction against-normative, conventional, Protestant-shaped religious practice and experience. We present a qualitative interview study of 13 low-income mothers with a history of depression, analyzing their descriptions of spiritual and religious coping practices. On the basis of a focused analysis of four mother's narratives, we argue that conventional survey answers may frequently hide more than they reveal about people's cultural, religious, and idiosyncratic experiences with ghosts, spirits, magic, and haunting presences that are relevant, sometimes integral, to illness and healing. We demonstrate that listening to participants' narratives challenges researchers' unconsciously normative assumptions and ought to help us reshape our understanding of the ways spirituality and religion influence health in a hyperdiverse society.

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Adaptation, PsychologicalResearchSpiritualityAdultBostonDepressive DisorderFemaleHealth SurveysHumansInterviews as TopicPovertyCommunication with the deadCulture and measurement biasDepressionGhostsMagicMeasurementMethodologyNarrative analysisPoverty, stress, and depressionReligionSpiritsSpiritual copingSpiritualityTrauma

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PMID27817135

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