Contribution to Book
Research on faith and health: new appoaches to old questions
Psychology
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
1-1-2001
Publisher
Guilford Press
Disciplines
- Alternative and Complementary Medicine,
- Bioethics and Medical Ethics,
- Clinical Psychology,
- Community Health,
- Health Psychology,
- Medical Humanities,
- Mental and Social Health,
- Practical Theology,
- Psychiatric and Mental Health,
- Psychiatry and Psychology,
- Psychological Phenomena and Processes,
- Religion and
- Substance Abuse and Addiction
Abstract
Does religious faith influence health? Are religious practices associated with altered risks for morbidity or mortality? Do religious or spiritual individuals tend to enjoy better well-being or mental health across the lifespan? Does spiritual or religious involvement change the way individuals adapt to the demands of chronic illness? This volume brings together some of the leading investigators who have explored these intriguing questions. Though research is in its early phases, the chapters that follow review some of what we have learned and begin to trace the outlines of the many mysteries that remain.
Chapter of
Faith and Health: Psychological Perspectives
Part of
Faith and Health: Psychological Perspectives
Editor
Thomas G. Plante Allen C. Sherman
Citation Information
Plante, Thomas G., and Allen C. Sherman. "Research on Faith and Health: New Approaches to Old Questions." Faith and Health: Psychological Perspectives. Ed. Thomas G. Plante and Allen C. Sherman. New York: Guilford, 2001. 1-12.
Reprinted from Faith and Health, Edited by Thomas G. Plante and Allen C. Sherman, Copyright © 2001 by The Guilford Press., 72 Spring Street, New York, NY 10012. Reprinted with permission of The Guilford Press.