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Record W4413398777 · doi:10.1177/0034673x251348245

Believing without Belonging? The Effects of Racial Discrimination at the Mosque on Religiosity and Mosque Attendance through Belonging for Black Muslims

2025· article· en· W4413398777 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueReview of Religious Research · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicReligion and Society Interactions
Canadian institutionsUniversity of TorontoUniversity of Guelph
Fundersnot available
KeywordsReligiosityAttendanceIslamChurch attendanceSociologySociology of religionPsychologyReligious studiesDemographySocial psychologyGender studiesGeographyAnthropologyPolitical sciencePhilosophyArchaeologyLaw

Abstract

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Churches have often offered a place of belonging for Black Christians and protected many from the negative impacts of external racial discrimination, which can make Black Christians more likely to engage in communal and private religiosity. Mosques in America are generally more ethnically diverse than churches. Therefore, mosques might not serve as sanctuaries for Black Muslims the way churches may for Black Christians because anti-Black discrimination often manifests within mosques from fellow Muslims. It appears, to date, that only one quantitative study has described interracial relations among American Muslims. We examined whether belonging explains the impact of racial discrimination in mosques on mosque attendance and religiosity for Black Muslims. Black American Muslims responded to anonymous online questionnaires regarding discrimination and belonging felt at mosques as well as religiosity and mosque attendance. Two parallel mediations showed that although belonging fully explained the negative relation between perceived discrimination at the mosque and mosque attendance, it only partially explained the negative relation between perceived discrimination and religiosity. Taking belonging into account, discrimination had a positive effect on religiosity, perhaps via religious coping. Findings are discussed in light of the believing without belonging theory , whereby communal religious engagement decreases, while individual religious engagement increases.

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metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.355
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.029
GPT teacher head0.439
Teacher spread0.409 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it