Chapter Six. The Decline in Religious Participation

Unnerved ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 111-130
Keyword(s):  
Religious Participation

When Religion Hurts: Structural Sexism and Health in Religious Congregations

2021 ◽  
pp. 000312242199668
Author(s):  
Patricia Homan ◽  
Amy Burdette
Keyword(s):  
General Social Survey ◽  
State Level ◽  
Religious Participation ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Religious Congregations ◽  
Positive Health ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Positive Health Outcomes ◽  
High Degree ◽  
The Relationship

An emerging line of research has begun to document the relationship between structural sexism and health. This work shows that structural sexism—defined as systematic gender inequality in power and resources—within U.S. state-level institutions and within marriages can shape individuals’ physical health. In the present study, we use a novel dataset created by linking two nationally representative surveys (the General Social Survey and the National Congregations Study) to explore the health consequences of structural sexism within another setting: religious institutions. Although religious participation is generally associated with positive health outcomes, many religious institutions create and reinforce a high degree of structural sexism, which is harmful for health. Prior research has not reconciled these seemingly conflicting patterns. We find that among religious participants, women who attend sexist religious institutions report significantly worse self-rated health than do those who attend more inclusive congregations. Furthermore, only women who attend inclusive religious institutions exhibit a health advantage relative to non-participants. We observe marginal to no statistically significant effects among men. Our results suggest the health benefits of religious participation do not extend to groups that are systematically excluded from power and status within their religious institutions.

Sanctifying the expansion of carceral control: Spiritual Supervision in the religious lives of criminalized Latinas

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 681-702 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Guzman
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
State Power ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Religious Organizations ◽  
Religious Participation ◽  
Rehabilitation Services ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
And Control

Drawing from ethnographic data and interviews collected in a Latina/o Pentecostal organization based in Northern California’s Bay Area, this paper analyzes how a religious street ministry that offers rehabilitation services and spiritual aid to criminalized individuals enacts spiritual supervision. Spiritual supervision refers to the process by which religious organizations incentivize middle-class individuals to participate in the construction of a criminalized class of individuals, as part of how they practice their Christian identities. This article analyzes how middle-class congregants supervise the actions and behaviors of criminalized individuals who perform gendered physical labor and participate in public dramatizations of their criminal stigma in exchange for housing, food, and religious participation. Spiritual supervision provides a novel theoretical framework for analyzing how carceral state power spreads through the institutional missions and practices of institutions that aim to rehabilitate but also reinforce racialized, gendered, and classed hierarchies that further stigmatize and control criminalized people. As a less visible form of punishment imposed outside formal criminal justice institutions, spiritual supervision illuminates how carceral control operates and affects spiritual and religious landscapes.

Attachment, Well-Being, and Religious Participation Among People with Severe Mental Disorders

2004 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele A. Schottenbauer ◽  
Roger D. Fallot ◽  
Christine L. Tyrrell
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Religious Participation ◽  
Severe Mental Disorders

Religious Participation Scale

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen M. Saunders ◽  
Megan L. Petrik ◽  
Melissa L. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Religious Participation

Particularism versus Pluriculturalism

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maud S. Mandel
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Gulf War ◽  
Religious Participation ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
At Home

This chapter traces the rise and fall of a Muslim–Jewish alliance to fight racism in 1980s France. It argues that the widespread excitement over the joint anti-racist campaign in the mid-1980s overlooked ongoing tensions between “particularistic” and “pluricultural” approaches to ethno-religious participation in the French state. Divisions over the Palestinian–Israeli conflict both prior to and during the 1991 Gulf War made these tensions evident as, once again, debates over the Middle East became a means of making sense of politics at home. Although calls for joint anti-racist campaigns never disappeared, by the end of the 1980s, those who articulated such appeals had backed away from a “pluricultural” model. While Muslims and Jews should work together, they argued, their perspectives and goals were necessarily divergent.

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