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Brown School DEI Faculty Syllabus Support Guide

This section provides historical and contemporary resources covering intersections of religion and spirituality.

Scholarly articles
  • Appel, H. B., Ai, A. L., Huang, B., & Nicdao, E. (2014). Detrimental effects of discrimination on mental health in Asian Americans: Counteracting roles of religious involvement. International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 24(1), 28-46.
  • Butler-Barnes, S. T., Martin, P. P., & Boyd, D. T. (2017). African American adolescents’ psychological well-being: The impact of parents’ religious socialization on adolescents’ religiosity. Race and Social Problems, 9, 115-126.
  • Fabbre, V. D., Taylor, C. B., Sloan, S., & Gaveras, E. (2023). Implicit and Explicit Spirituality in the Lives of Transgender and Gender Expansive Older Adults. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 1-17.
  • Hashem, H. M., & Awad, G. H. (2021). Religious identity, discrimination, and psychological distress among Muslim and Christian Arab Americans. Journal of religion and health, 60, 961-973.
  • Hope, M. O., Lee, D. B., Hsieh, H. F., Hurd, N. M., Sparks, H. L., & Zimmerman, M. A. (2019). Violence exposure and sexual risk behaviors for African American adolescent girls: The protective role of natural mentorship and organizational religious involvement. American journal of community psychology, 64(1-2), 242-255.
  • Hope, M. O., Taylor, R. J., Nguyen, A. W., & Chatters, L. M. (2019). Church support among African American and Black Caribbean adolescents. Journal of child and family studies, 28, 3037-3050.
  • Inniss-Thompson, M., Butler-Barnes, S., Taaffe, C., & Elliott, T. (2022). “What Serves You”: Charting Black Girl Spaces for Wellness through Spirituality, Resistance, and Homeplace. Journal of African American Women and Girls in Education, 2(2), 37-64.
  • Lateef, H., & Umarji, O. (2022). Black American Muslims: a study of religious identity and mental health. Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 25(8), 802-816.
  • Nguyen, A. W., Taylor, H. O., Lincoln, K. D., Wang, F., Hamler, T., & Mitchell, U. A. (2022). Religious involvement and sleep among older African Americans. Journal of Aging and Health, 34(3), 413-423.
  • Nguyen, A. W. (2020). Religion and mental health in racial and ethnic minority populations: A review of the literature. Innovation in Aging, 4(5).
  • Rahal, D., & Kurtz-Costes, B. (2021). Religiosity and mistreatment among Christian and Muslim Arab Americans. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality.
  • Umarji, O., & Lateef, H. (2020). Being Black and Muslim in America: A study on identity and well-being. Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research. https://yaqeeninstitute. org/read/paper/being-black-and-muslim-in-america.
Books
  • Ellison, C. G., & Henderson, A. K. (2011). Religion And Mental Health: Through The Lens Of The Stress Process. In Toward a sociological theory of religion and health (pp. 11-44). Brill.
  • Greene, B. (2008). African American women, religion, and oppression: The use and abuse of spiritual beliefs. . In C. A. Rayburn L. Comas-Díaz (Ed.), Woman soul: The inner life of women’s spirituality, Women’s psychology. (pp. 153–166). Westport, CT, US: Praeger Publishers/Greenwood Publishing Group.
  • Idler, E. L. (Ed.). (2014). Religion as a social determinant of public health. Oxford University Press, USA.
  • Loue, S. (2017). Handbook of religion and spirituality in social work practice and research. New York: Springer.
  • Stephenson, E. (2004). The African diaspora and culture-based coping strategies. In J. L. Chin (Ed.), The psychology of prejudice and discrimination (pp. 95–118). Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers.
  • Taylor, R. J., Chatters, L. M., & Levin, J. (2003). Religion in the lives of African Americans: Social, psychological, and health perspectives. Sage Publications.
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