RT Article
T1 Religious Dissociation and Economic Appraisal in Brazil
JF Journal of religion and health
VO 55
IS 2
SP 522
OP 534
A1 Dengah, H. J. François
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V.
YR 2016
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/156658079X
AB Research on the association between religion and health often neglects to provide an explicit theoretical mechanism of influence between faith and well-being. This research posits that dissociative behaviors, such as glossolalia, may provide a biological pathway that influences both physiological and psychological health. This paper argues that religious dissociation acts as a moderator between economic stressors and psychobiological appraisal. Brazil, with its economic inequality and preponderance of religious dissociative rituals, provides an ideal context to examine religious dissociation as a moderator of stress. Utilizing data from a cross section of Brazilian faiths, this paper examines: (1) Whether individuals with low socioeconomic status preferentially participate and experience religious dissociative states and (2) whether dissociative states are correlated with greater psychological appraisal of status.
K1 Religion
K1 Brazil
K1 Dissociation
K1 Glossolalia
K1 Health
K1 Pentecostal
K1 Protestant
K1 Stress
DO 10.1007/s10943-015-0015-8