Where Our Bright Star Is Cast: Religiosity, Spirituality, and Positive Black Development in Urban Landscapes

Mattis, Jacqueline S.; Palmer, Gordon J. M.; Hope, Meredith O.

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“…Still, religion and spirituality’s effects on Black emerging adult women’s navigation of the developmental and contextual shifts that occur during college remains sparsely explored (McGuire, 2019; McGuire et al, 2016). In the current study, we applied the Socioecological, Transactional Framework of Religiosity and Spirituality (SET-RS Urban; Mattis et al, 2019) and Okello’s (2018) framework of Black feminist self-definition to guide our exploration of the multifaceted role of religion and spirituality in the lives of Black women attending predominantly white institutions (PWIs).…”

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“…The sociohistorical context of the U.S. has significantly shaped Black Americans’ religiosity (Mattis et al, 2019; Skipper et al, 2018). The SET-RS Urban (Mattis et al, 2019) allows us to explore how sociohistorical factors interconnect with individual factors (e.g., social identities, opportunities and needs, and access to spiritual models) to influence religious development. SET-RS allows us to account for the various factors that may influence religious socialization practices, such as the intersection of religious and cultural practices, the sense of faith community belonging, and the negotiation of religious and spiritual socialization messages.…”

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“…SET-RS discusses Black religiosity and spirituality in neighborhoods and communities commonly affected by segregation, residential instability, gentrification, inequitable access to high wage jobs, and hypersurveillance (Riina et al, 2016; Sewell, 2016). Mattis et al (2019) focused on urban cities as “sites of innovation, entrepreneurship, wealth, creativity, knowledge production, opportunity, resistance, intergroup social contact, and intercultural competence” (p. 9), to demonstrate how religiosity and spirituality coincide with positive development among Black urban residents (Butler-Barnes et al, 2017; Kim et al, 2018; Lee & Neblett, 2019). Nevertheless, SET-RS’s conceptualization of religiosity and spirituality as an important meaning-making lens for Black emerging adults offers a useful framework for our study.…”

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“…Furthermore, the majority of religious Black Americans are involved in faith communities that provide strong ties to their racial and cultural heritage (Hope et al, 2020). Taken together, this suggests that many Black Americans’ religious and spiritual beliefs significantly inform how they understand themselves and the world around them (; Lee & Neblett, 2019; Mattis et al, 2019). Yet, fewer studies specifically consider how Black Americans arrive at their beliefs and practices, particularly during specific developmental periods.…”

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Religious Socialization and Self-Definition Among Black Undergraduate Women Attending Predominantly White Institutions

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To date, few scholars have explored religious and spiritual socialization among emerging adult Black women. In this study, we analyzed semi-structured interview data from 50 Black undergraduate women to explore associations between childhood religious socialization messages and current religious beliefs in emerging adulthood. Consensual qualitative methods revealed two broad domains and six themes. The first domain, “religious alignment,” included: (1) internalizing religion and (2) educating others on religious beliefs. The second domain, “religious departure,” included: (3) modifying religious expectations to fit developing beliefs, (4) employing religion as a pathway to self-acceptance, (5) picking and choosing battles within their religious community, and (6) choosing an alternate religious or faith system. Findings highlighted how the women started to take ownership of their religious experiences, as well as how they used religious practices, such as prayer, to cope with gendered racism. Authors discuss the implications of emerging adulthood on Black women’s religious identities.

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“…Expanding on how social science research has typically portrayed the lived experiences of Black urban-residing people in a manner that flattens our understanding of their experiences, Mattis et al (2019) propose an alternative conceptual framework that links sociopolitical factors to religiosity, spirituality, and positive development. In particular, this lens portrays the diversity of religious and spiritual experiences and the robust connections between everyday life and positive outcomes, such as compassion, hope, liberation, and joy and attends to the ways that faith helps Black youth and adults residing in urban spaces navigate the sequelae of distinct sociopolitical features of urban life.…”

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Ecological Perspectives on Religion and Positive Youth Development

Abo‐Zena

Rana

2020

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A positivist orientation that marginalized the study of religion and spirituality in social science research has limited both its scope and focus. Given a primarily cognitive orientation to this inquiry, children, adolescents, and emerging adults were typically not the focus of research. More recently, the scope of research has been broadened to emphasize the need to understand contextual and developmental nuances, which are increasingly being reflected in a range of research designs, methods, and samples. The burgeoning scholarship on the role of religion and spirituality in the development of youth during this particularly formative developmental period has begun to shed light on how religion promotes and challenges positive youth development. While this expanding focus has begun to describe youth’s developmental experiences, the deep interconnections between individual youth, religious and spiritual systems, and the contexts and relationships in which youth develop remain understudied. This special issue on the role of religion and spirituality on positive youth development asserts the import of exploring ecological perspectives and influences when studying the role of religion and spirituality in the development of diverse youth and draws from interdisciplinary and lifespan perspectives to continue mapping the terrain of this area of study and ways to navigate it.

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Contextualizing black emerging adults' perceptions of neighborhood quality

Fike,

Mattis

2023

American J of Comm Psychol

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The ways in which Black emerging adults perceive and evaluate their neighborhoods may be impacted by a host of social and political factors that interplay with their social identities, the social identities of other urban residents, and their time in the area. Early literature on Black emerging adults' perceived neighborhood quality (PNQ) tended to make comparisons to White people and to focus disproportionately on the perceptions of low‐income Black people residing in predominately racial/ethnic minority and underresourced communities. Subsequent work on subjective neighborhood assessment has considered specific features of neighborhoods, such as safety or disorder, but a general sense of the quality of one's neighborhood features is still underexplored. The current study adapts Connerly and Marans' (1985) PNQ model to explore the relations between social identities and locations, neighborhood sociostructural features, time in the area, and PNQ among Black urban‐residing emerging adults. Block‐wise regression results suggest that education and partner status were associated with PNQ. Perceptions of the percentage of Black neighbors and Census Bureau proportions of residents in the zip code who are poor were also associated with PNQ. Length of residence in the neighborhood was marginally associated with PNQ while length of residence in the city/town was not significantly associated with PNQ. For young Black women, combined household income was marginally associated with PNQ, but neighborhood sociostructural features were the strongest contributors to PNQ. In contrast, education was the only significant contributor to PNQ for young Black men. We discuss the ways that the social positions of young Black residents and their neighbors may impact their experiences and evaluations of urban areas.

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Where Our Bright Star Is Cast: Religiosity, Spirituality, and Positive Black Development in Urban Landscapes

Cited by 29 publications

References 92 publications

Religious Socialization and Self-Definition Among Black Undergraduate Women Attending Predominantly White Institutions

Religious Socialization and Self-Definition Among Black Undergraduate Women Attending Predominantly White Institutions

Ecological Perspectives on Religion and Positive Youth Development

Contextualizing black emerging adults' perceptions of neighborhood quality

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