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Religious Beliefs About Suffering: Measure Validation And Relationships With Well-Being, Amy Hale
Religious Beliefs About Suffering: Measure Validation And Relationships With Well-Being, Amy Hale
Doctoral Dissertations
Beliefs are central to all world religions, but there is limited data on the relationships between specific religious beliefs and well-being. This dissertation presents findings from two studies of beliefs about suffering using the Views of Suffering Scale (VOSS; Hale-Smith, Park, & Edmondson, 2012).
Study 1 was a cross-sectional validation study using an online sample of 1000 participants self-identified as Catholic, Protestant, Atheist/Agnostic, Hindu, Muslim, or Jewish. Measures included information regarding demographics and measures of religious history and beliefs. Results of Study 1 indicated differences in beliefs based on age, geographic region, religious affiliation, and how religious or spiritual participants …
Power, Privilege, And Prayer: Christian Right Identity Politics And Mobilizing For School Prayer, Daniel Tagliarina
Power, Privilege, And Prayer: Christian Right Identity Politics And Mobilizing For School Prayer, Daniel Tagliarina
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation is about how the political push for school prayer functions as an effort to retrench conservative social power and a conservative political worldview via identity-based politics. The New Christian Right (NCR) mobilizes secularized arguments of equality, victimhood and parental rights to advocate for school prayer. The NCR mobilizes to include religion in a unique cultural institution (public education) involved in the training of future generations of American citizens. The NCR’s mobilization aims at preserving Christian social power and privilege with little-to-no attention paid to protecting religion qua religion—not just Christian faith—in America.
The NCR, as a social movement, …