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Advance in the Study of Religious and Spiritual Coping

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6. Conclusion

As a discipline, psychology has made significant strides towards the inclusion of religion and spirituality in its theoretical and empirical investigations. The domain of religious/spiritual coping within the wider context of the contextual theory of coping, has established itself as a unique and valid process that concerns itself with the search for the sacred as a response to human suffering. We have attempted to give a broad overview of significant developments in religious/spiritual coping theory that have taken place since 1997. In addition to reviewing mainstream religious/spiritual typologies, methods, means of assessment and outcome studies, we have also included a significant review of crosscultural and emic studies, which support and extend mainstream research findings. Moreover, our case study of religious/spiritual coping among Portuguese immigrants to Canada and the United States from the Azores has demonstrated the necessity of employing contextually sensitive research methodologies to capture unique cultural and spiritual coping dimensions of this ethnic and religious community.

Future investigations into spiritual/religious coping must take recent the developments documented in this review seriously. It is no longer sufficient to employ measures and methodologies that obscure the complexity of religious/spiritual coping for the sake of research expedience. Scholars of spirituality now have the opportunity take advantage of the significant advances over the past seven years and can engage in research that is contextually sensitive, methodologically rigorous and theoretically coherent. We hope that our review and critique of the domain of religious/spiritual coping will encourage and enable such exploration.

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Klaassen, D.W., McDonald, M.J., James, S. (2006). Advance in the Study of Religious and Spiritual Coping. In: Wong, P.T.P., Wong, L.C.J. (eds) Handbook of Multicultural Perspectives on Stress and Coping. International and Cultural Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-26238-5_6

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