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The boundary between culturally sanctioned religious experience and psychopathological religiosity is contested across cultures, creating diagnostic, therapeutic and ethical challenges.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"S2056472426121152_as2\">\n                    <jats:title>Aims<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>To map evidence on religious preoccupation in bipolar disorder across cultural and religious settings, synthesise clinical and cultural determinants, and identify research gaps.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"S2056472426121152_as3\">\n                    <jats:title>Method<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This scoping review followed Joanna Briggs Institute methodology and PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews guidance, and was pre-registered on the Open Science Framework (10.17605\/OSF.IO\/V3WA6). 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Religiosity was associated with protective effects, including lower suicidality and better coping, and adverse effects, including treatment delay and negative religious coping. Evidence gaps remain for Islamic, East Asian, Indigenous and secular-pluralistic populations.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"S2056472426121152_as5\">\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Religious preoccupation in bipolar disorder is cross-cultural and remains understudied outside Western settings. Clinicians require cultural competence and cultural formulation approaches to distinguish psychopathology from normative religious expression. 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