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01-12-2009 | Original Paper

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

Author: Jeff Levin

Published in: Journal of Religion and Health | Issue 4/2009

Abstract

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.

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Title: Restoring the Spiritual: Reflections on Arrogance and Myopia—Allopathic and Holistic
Author: Jeff Levin
Publication date: 01-12-2009
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Journal of Religion and Health / Issue 4/2009
Print ISSN: 0022-4197
Electronic ISSN: 1573-6571
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-008-9212-z

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