Blake Victor Kent (Ph.D., Baylor University) is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Westmont College. Currently serving on the boards of Review of Religious Research and the Public Health, Religion, and Spirituality Network, his research is centered on associations between religion/spirituality and mental and physical health, with particular attention given to subjective religious and spiritual experiences, particularly attachment to God. Current interdisciplinary projects utilize data drawn from five 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. Author of approximately 30 research publications, his work has appeared in Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Health Psychology, Quality of Life Research, Ethnicity & Health, Research on Aging, Journal of Aging & Health, and others. In addition to work in religion and health, Blake has recently leveraged his theological education (MA, Regent College) to examine perceptions of the Kingdom of God among U.S. Christians.