Restoring the Spiritual: Reflections on Arrogance and Myopia—Allopathic and Holistic

Over the past two decades, researchers have successfully accumulated lots of data pointing to a salutary impact of religious involvement. But progress in the religion and health field has been inhibited by the relative lack of attention to important conceptual and theoretical issues. This paper asse...

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Publié dans:Journal of religion and health
Auteur principal: Levin, Jeffrey S. 1959- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Springer Science + Business Media B. V. [2008]
Dans: Journal of religion and health
Année: 2009, Volume: 48, Numéro: 4, Pages: 482
Sujets non-standardisés:B Spirituality
B Biomedicine
B Health
B Holism
B Religion
Accès en ligne: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Résumé:Over the past two decades, researchers have successfully accumulated lots of data pointing to a salutary impact of religious involvement. But progress in the religion and health field has been inhibited by the relative lack of attention to important conceptual and theoretical issues. This paper asserts that until we focus as much on the latter as on the former, this field will remain marginalized and thus ineffective in contributing to understandings of the determinants of health and healing. Careful attention to the how and why of a religion-health connection is imperative for bringing this research into the mainstream of biomedicine.
ISSN:1573-6571
Contient:Enthalten in: Journal of religion and health
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10943-008-9212-z