Miracles and Pain Relief
This study examines a large collection of healing testimonies published by a Danish charismatic Christian organization. Diseases and symptoms reported to be healed through charismatic prayer healing (cph) are counted and coded using icd-10 diagnostic criteria. The analysis shows that even in testimo...
| Published in: | Archive for the psychology of religion |
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| Authors: | ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2016
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| In: |
Archive for the psychology of religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Denmark
/ Charismatic movement
/ Miraculous healing
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| RelBib Classification: | KBE Northern Europe; Scandinavia KDG Free church |
| Further subjects: | B
Intercessory prayer
charismatic healing
miracles
pain relief
healing testimonies
health
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | This study examines a large collection of healing testimonies published by a Danish charismatic Christian organization. Diseases and symptoms reported to be healed through charismatic prayer healing (cph) are counted and coded using icd-10 diagnostic criteria. The analysis shows that even in testimonies published to convince other believers about the divine powers of prayer, most accounts include relatively mundane reports of pain relief in the musculoskeletal system. Cases of complete and immediate healing of serious diseases, echoing miracles reported in the Bible, also exist in the material, but such cases appear to be predicted by variables relating to the credibility of each testimony. The notable proportion of pain relief in this supposedly highly biased Christian material is interpreted as support for a popular but poorly documented assumption that cph mainly affects subjective symptoms responsive to expectation modulation. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-6121 |
| Contains: | In: Archive for the psychology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15736121-12341322 |