Religion and Spirituality News

Religious Support Helps Individuals with Chronic Illness

October 27th, 2011
Religious Support Helps Individuals with Chronic Illness A new study reveals that religious and spiritual support helps both men and women cope, and then live with, a chronic disease. University of Missouri researchers embarked ...

Rites and Rituals Help to Cleanse the Mind

October 6th, 2011
Rites and Rituals Help to Cleanse the Mind A new study suggests you really can wash away your troubles. According to investigators, the metaphor reflects reality, and religious rites like baptism make psychological ...

Magic Mushrooms May Bring Lasting Personality Changes

October 1st, 2011
Magic Mushrooms May Bring Lasting Personality ChangesIn just a single high dose, psilocybin — a hallucinogen and active ingredient in magic mushrooms — produced notable changes for at least one year in the personalities ...

Cognitive Style Tends To Predict Religious Conviction

September 21st, 2011
Cognitive Style Predicts Religious ConvictionA new series of studies provide insights on why some people have stronger religious beliefs than others. Harvard University researchers believe the answer is tied to an individual's preferred cognitive ...

Education and Religion May Not Be at Odds

August 9th, 2011
Education and Religion may not be at odds  A new study contests the long-held notion that the more educated someone becomes, the more likely they are to question their religious beliefs. However, the more ...

Belief in Benevolent God Reduces Worries

August 8th, 2011
Belief in Benevolent God Reduces Worries Results from a new study suggest mental health professionals should integrate patients' spiritual beliefs into their treatment regimens, especially for patients who are religious. Researchers say individuals ...

Patients More Satisfied When Hospitals Include Spiritual Care

July 14th, 2011
Patients More Satisfied When Hospitals Include Spiritual Care An emerging view of holistic health care includes attending to physical, mental, social and spiritual domains of care. Over the past decades, researchers ...

Identity Shifts for Teens, But Not Their Religion

July 1st, 2011
Identity Shifts for Teens, But Not Their Religion Adolescence is a time of exploration and growth, a time when teens begin to develop their own self-awareness and confirm their identification with specific social ...

Spirituality Enhances Recovery from Brain Injury

June 29th, 2011
Spirituality Enhances Recovery from Brain Injury A new study finds that a spiritual relationship helps victims of a traumatic brain injury (TBI) rehabilitate from their injury. The study, by Brigid Waldron-Perrine, Ph.D., and Lisa ...

Mental Illness Nearly Invisible In Many Churches

June 23rd, 2011
Mental Illness Nearly Invisible Among ChurchesA family member's mental illness can disrupt the family's connection with its religious community, leading many affected families to leave the church and their faith behind, according to a new study. Baylor ...