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That religious belief and behavior have far‐reaching influences on personal and social life, in both beneficial and deleterious ways, is self‐evident. The purpose of the present volume is to examine religious influences on a variety of aspects of well‐being, broadly defined to include both personal and societal levels of analysis. Religion and well‐being are both multifaceted constructs, and the empirical relationships between them prove to be highly complex. The authors in this volume examine these relationships across a diverse sampling of conceptualizations of well‐being (coping, mental health, physical health, and substance abuse and recovery), social issues and problems (religion‐related and ritualistic child abuse, prejudice and right‐wing authoritarianism, and HIV infection), and special populations (adolescents and the elderly).
Paloutzian et al. (Sat,) studied this question.