Desecration and Sacred Loss
Pargament, K. I., Magyar, G. M., Benore, E., & Mahoney, A. (2005). Sacrilege: A study of sacred loss and desecration and their implications for health and well-being in a community sample. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 44, 59-78. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5906.2005.00265.x
Pargament, K. I., Trevino, K, Mahoney, A., & Silverman, I. (2007) They killed our lord: The perception of Jews as desecrators of Christianity as a predictor of anti-Semitism. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 46, 143-158. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5906.2007.00347.x
Abu Raiya, H., Pargament, K. I., Mahoney, A. & Trevino, K. (2008). When Muslims are perceived as a religious threat: Examining the connection between desecration, religious coping, and anti-Muslim attitudes. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 30, 311-325. https://doi.org/10.1080/01973530802502234
Krumrei, E.J., Mahoney, A., & Pargament, K. I. (2011). Spiritual stress and coping model of divorce: A longitudinal study of a community sample. Journal of Family Psychology, 25, 973-985. https://doi.org/doi.10.1037/a0025879
Trevino, K. M., Desai, K., Lauricella, S., Pargament, K. I., & Mahoney, A. (2012). Perceptions of LG individuals as desecrators of Christianity as predictors of anti-LG attitudes. Journal of Homosexuality, 9, 535-563. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2012.665672
Magyar-Russell, G., Pargament, K. I., Trevino, K. M., & Sherman, J. E. (2013). Religious and spiritual appraisals and coping strategies among patients in medical rehabilitation. Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, 24, 93-136. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004252073_006
Krause, N. Pargament, K. I., & Ironson, G. (2018). Meaning in life moderates the relationship between sacred loss/desecration and health. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 57(2), 365-376. https://doi.org/10.1111/jssr.12522