Religion and mental health: Through the lens of the stress process

Religion and the Social Order

Volumn 19, Issue , 2011, Pages 11-44

  Ellison, Christopher G ^a   Henderson, Andrea K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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