As the beliefs and practice of different religions differ, and the practice of different religions may differ in certain countries and they may also face different environmental factors (e.g. such as whether it has minority effect, being encouraged, etc), will research on Religiosity and Suicidality be more accurate if we are able to break-down the analysis according to religions, especially for a country where it is multi-racial and multi-religion.
There are of course different styles of religiosity within different traditions -- a Christian Carthusian monastic may in significant ways have more in common with a Zen Buddhist monk than with a Christian Pentecostalist. And even within denominations, there can be differences between what social psychologist, Gordon Allport, spoke of as "intrinsic religiousness" and "extrinsic religiousness" (not unlike the distinction religionist, Wilfred C. Smith, drew between an effectively heart-opening "faith" and a mind-closing "belief).
I'm not personally aware of such scales, but it might serve you to look for measures that attend to "different styles of religiousness" as much or more than to "different religions."
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