Further inquiry into Protestant clerical mortality patterns

King, Haitung; Zafros, Gregory; Hass, Rita

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“…In their 1969 article reviewing past literature on clergy mortality, Haitung King and John Bailar find that "the mortality experience of clergymen has been consistently more favorable than that of the general male population" (p. 27). Between 1968 and 1980, King and colleagues published a variety of studies of clergy physical health and mortality, which included both comprehensive literature reviews and statistical analyses using large samples from multiple theological traditions (King 1971;King andBailar 1968, 1969;King and Locke 1980;King, Zafros, and Hass 1975;Locke and King 1980). King and coauthors found that on several physical health outcomes, including life expectancy, cancer, and cardiovascular disease, clergy fared decidedly better than the U.S. population.…”

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Is There a Crisis in Clergy Health?: Reorienting Research Using a National Sample

Holleman

Eagle

2023

Scientific Study of Religion

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Are religious leaders unusually unhealthy? This question has long occupied scholars interested in the study of religious institutions, and a significant body of research has examined the causes, correlates, and effects of poor health among clergy. In this study, we aimed to: (1) outline the development of, and bias inherent to, the scholarly understanding of clergy health over the past 50 years; (2) test, using a recently collected nationally representative sample of clergy, the standing assumption that clergy are an especially unhealthy vocational group, specifically in terms of depression, obesity, and self‐rated health; and (3) identify the major correlates of health among clergy using these data. Contrary to the recent tenor of scholarly research on this subject, our research revealed that clergy are not a particularly unhealthy group. We suggest potential pathways forward to ameliorate the bias inherent in the research into clergy well‐being.

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Is There a Crisis in Clergy Health?: Reorienting Research Using a National Sample

Holleman

Eagle

2023

Scientific Study of Religion

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Cancer and total mortality among active mormons

Enstrom

1978

Cancer

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Based on Church records for 15,500 California Mormons during 1968 to 1975 and for 55,000 Utah Mormons during 1970 and 1975, the ratio of age-adjusted death rates for religiously active Mormon males compared with U.S. white males is 38% for ages 35 to 64 years and 50% for ages 35 years and above. The remaining life expectancy for active Mormon men at age 35 is about 44 years, over 7 years greater than for U.S. white males. Their standardized mortality ratio is 50% for all cancer, being 23% for smoking-related cancer sites and 68% for all other sites. Active Mormons, defined here to be High Priests and Seventies, abstain almost completely from the use of tobacco, alcohol, coffee, and tea, but appear to be fairly similar to other white males with regard to socioeconomic status, urbanization, and diet. Active Mormons are healthier than Mormons as a whole and rank among the lowest in mortality when compared with other groups of healthy males.

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Prostate cancer mortality among catholic priests

Michalek

Mettlin

Priore

1981

Journal of Surgical Oncology

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To investigate the possible role of celibate lifestyles in the etiology of prostate cancer, analyses of mortality from cancers of the prostate and other sites among an average annual cohort of 6,226 Roman Catholic clergymen in New York State from 1965 through 1977 were conducted. The death certificates of 1006 (95%) priests were reviewed. Of these 156 deaths were attributable to malignant neoplasms. Clerics experienced mortality ratios of 15% less for all causes of death and 30% less for cancer mortality, given mortality patterns among New York State white males of comparable ages. Twelve deaths from prostatic cancer were observed while 19.8 were expected. This represents a mortality experience significantly less than that of the general noncelibate population. Lower mortality ratios were found also for cancers of the lung, colo-rectum, and stomach. Higher mortality ratios were found for malignant melanoma and unspecified respiratory organs.

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Further inquiry into Protestant clerical mortality patterns

Cited by 10 publications

References 8 publications

Is There a Crisis in Clergy Health?: Reorienting Research Using a National Sample

Is There a Crisis in Clergy Health?: Reorienting Research Using a National Sample

Cancer and total mortality among active mormons

Prostate cancer mortality among catholic priests

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