Spring/Summer 2022, Issue 06, p. 18
[Online 15 Jun. 2022, Article A034]
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Resources & Updates: Spring/Summer 2022

Editors’ Note: This section emphasizes resources at the intersection of religion/spirituality and public health, as well as major organizations that at times address these intersections. Please see the “Resources” tab on the PHRS website for more content, and please send new potential content to this section to:  PHRSadm1@publichealthrs.org and phrsadmin0@publichealthrs.org

New Research

• May 2022: Special Issue Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture: Religion, COVID-19, and Biocultural Evolution. (Eds: Crews and Taylor)
• April 2022: Religious/spiritual struggles and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: Does “talking religion” help or hurt?. (Upenieks)
• April 2022: Associations of Changes in Religiosity With Flourishing During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Study of Faith Communities in the United States. (Jacobi, Cowden, Vaidyanathan)
• March 2022: Health Effects of Religion, Spirituality, and Supernatural Beliefs in Mainland China: A Systematic Review. (Pan et al.)
• February 2022: Narratives and counter-narratives in religious responses to COVID-19: A computational text analysis. (Idler, Bernau, and Zaras)
• February 2022: “People Are Not Taking the Outbreak Seriously”: Interpretations of Religion and Public Health Policy During the COVID-19 Pandemic. (Johnson et al.)
• January 2022: Keeping the Faith: Religion, Positive Coping, and Mental Health of Caregivers During COVID-19. (Sen, Colucci, and Browne)

Articles, Books, Commentaries, Interviews, Webinars

• Webinar: June 16, 2022: Registered Reports and Funding in Consciousness and Religion Research. (Center for Open Science)
• Commentary: May 2022: Religion, cancer, and sub-Saharan African health systems. (Olivier)
• Commentary: May 2022: Religious Community in Public Health and Medicine. (VanderWeele)
• Webinar: May 2022: Bridging Faith and Science to Combat the Overdose Crisis Series. (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)
• Book: December 2021: Religion, Virtues, and Health. (Krause)
• Funding: Call for Proposals –Open Science of Religion

Upcoming Conferences and Calls for Papers (newest first)

• Deadline Approaching: Special Issue Religions, “Religion and Public Health Threats in the 21st Century“. Due July 31, 2022
• Upcoming: August 2022: 18^th Annual Course on Religion, Spirituality, and Health. Duke University.
• Upcoming: November 2022: American Public Health Association (Boston, MA). Link to the Caucus on Public Health and the Faith Community here.