Religious activities are shown to correlate with rates of psychological depression symptoms in a sample of 995 African American and white elderly residents of Nashville. The data, collected in face-to-face interviews, included indicators of both public and private religiosity. Levels of religiosity and perceived social support were higher among the African-American respondents than among others, and among female respondents. Separate regression analyses of the racial groupings, which appeared to have distinctive religious subcultures, generally show that perceptions of social support mediate the relationship between levels of religiosity and symptoms of depression.

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References to market phenomena are common enough in the sociology of religion, but despite the proliferation of systems of concatenate propositions that have been tested with survey and church membership data, little has been done to develop the conceptualization of how a religious market works. Consequently there is a significant lack of correspondence in the literature between the role market phenomena play in economics and the role of market-like counterparts in the religious field. While there may be some point to offering a correction to allegedly market-centered research in the sociology of religion, the intent here instead is to take what insights are to be had from the study of economic phenomena and draw out their implications for inquiry into religion. Key words: market theory · religion and economic phenomenaIl est devenu fréquent, en sociologie de la religion, de recourir à la notion de marché. Toutefois, et malgré les nombreuses recherches empiriques portant sur l'appartenance à une Église qui ont tenté de vérifier la carte des concepts liés à l'idée de marché religieux, peu de chercheurs ont entrepris de développer une théorie en mesure d'en définir le fonctionnement. On note, par conséquent, dans la littérature sociologique, un manque d'analyses capables d'établir s'il existe une réelle correspondance entre les phénomènes et s'il en existe d'analogues dans le domaine religieux. L'étude de ces phénomènes économiques devrait se fixer comme objectif de comprendre quelles en sont les implications pour la religion plutôt que de discuter, même de manière critique, de ce qu'a apporté la recherche en sociologie de la religion à l'idée de marché. Mot-clés: théorie du marché · religion et économie

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