{"id":1194,"date":"2013-09-22T18:56:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T18:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/09\/are-religious-people-more-depressed.html"},"modified":"2013-09-22T18:56:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T18:56:00","slug":"are-religious-people-more-depressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/09\/are-religious-people-more-depressed.html","title":{"rendered":"Are Religious People More Depressed?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
While non-religious people tend to reject religion because they find the evidence for a supernatural deity unconvincing, a new study shows that rejecting religion can be good not just logically, but emotionally.<\/span><\/div>\n
While previous studies had suggested some emotional and social value to being religious, a new study that examined a huge number of people from around the world discovered that being religious is a risk factor for depression.\u00a0As explained by the Huffington Post,<\/a>\u00a0over 8,000 people from different countries from the UK to Chile, had their levels of religiosity measured. The study covered various economic and social groups and looked at the relationship between religiosity and depression.<\/span><\/div>\n
The researchers found that religious people were more prone to depression, with rates of developing depression in places like the United Kingdom being three times as high for believers than non-believers. Studies like this are merely measuring risk factors and not necessarily suggesting a\u00a0causal\u00a0relationship so much as suggesting to clinicians traits to look out for when determining a patient\u2019s chances of developing depression. However, the fact that the finding was both cross- and intra-cultural suggests that there may be more going on here than a simple correlation.<\/span><\/div>\n
Is there anything about religion that might make people more prone to depression? Or is it that people who are prone to depression are more likely to be religious?<\/span><\/div>\n
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