Global Research Team
Associate Professor of Sociology
Westmont College, Sociology
Blake Victor Kent is Associate Professor of Sociology at Westmont College and a Research Affiliate at Harvard University's Human Flourishing Program and at Massachusetts General Hospital's Center on Genomics, Vulnerable Populations, and Health Disparities. He is a Non-Resident Scholar at Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion and serves on the Global Flourishing Study's core analysis team. His research centers on associations between religion and spirituality and mental and physical health, with particular attention to subjective religious experiences such as attachment to God.
Childhood experiences and adult self-rated physical health in 22 countries
BMC Global and Public Health · 2026
Childhood predictors of belief in life after death across 22 countries
Scientific Reports · 2025
Demographic variation in self-rated physical health across 22 countries: findings from the Global Flourishing Study
BMC Global and Public Health · 2025
Demographic variation in symptoms of depression and anxiety across 22 Global Flourishing Study countries
Communications Medicine · 2026
Sociodemographic variations of belief in life after death across 22 Countries
Scientific Reports · 2025
The Global Flourishing Study: Study Profile and Initial Results on Flourishing
Nature Mental Health · 2025