Attitudes towards mental illness in American Evangelical communities, supernaturalism, and stigmatisation

Religious healing and mental health

“…Through a survey study, Lloyd and Waller (2020) explore the attitudes and experiences of 446 Evangelical Christians suffering with mental distress and their effects on secular healthseeking. Among a sample of 180 American Evangelical Christians, Freeman and Baldwin (2020) use priming methods to look at the effects of exposure to religiously-informed principles on attitudes pertaining to the causes, solutions, and interventions for mental illness. Dein and Littlewood (2020) deploy ethnographic methods to examine Hindu-Christian religious conversion and its psychological implications among Hindus in India and in the UK.…”