When God is your only friend: Religion and the socially disconnected

Thursday, August 30, 2018 - 16:30 in Psychology & Sociology

New research finds that religious people who lack friends and purpose in life turn to God to fill those voids. However, the findings do not suggest that people who are socially disconnected are more likely to become religious if they were not already.

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