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Prayer as Therapy: A Challenge to Both Religious Belief and Professional Ethics
Author(s) -
COHEN CYNTHIA B.,
WHEELER SONDRA E.,
SCOTT DAVID A.,
EDWARDS BARBARA SPRINGER,
LUSK PATRICIA
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.2307/3528046
Subject(s) - prayer , professional ethics , religious belief , psychology , psychotherapist , social psychology , environmental ethics , law , epistemology , philosophy , political science , religious studies
Scientists seeking hard evidence of prayer's curative powers misunderstand the nature of prayer in the Western theistic traditions. Yet theistically consonant ways in which religious belief may influence health do not figure as they should in current professional practice.