Blake Kent
- Non-Resident Scholar
- Westmont College and Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Blake Victor Kent is Associate Professor of Sociology at Westmont College and Research Associate at the Harvard/MGH Center on Genomics, Vulnerable Populations, and Health Disparities. His work is centered on associations between religion/spirituality and mental and physical health, with particular attention given to subjective religious and spiritual experiences. His current work utilizes data drawn from six racially and ethnically diverse U.S. cohort studies participating in the National Consortium on Psychosocial Stress, Spirituality, and Health, with the goal of identifying how religion and spirituality affect disease etiology in diverse populations. His work has appeared in journals such as Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Health Psychology, Ethnicity & Health, Annals of Behavioral Medicine, and Journal of Aging & Health, receiving national and international attention in outlets such as Forbes, Huffington Post, Christianity Today, and BBC.
- Contact Information
- bkent@westmont.edu
- Blake's Curriculum Vitae
- Curriculum Vitae