Nothingness, Oneness, and Infinity: Transcendent Experience as a Promising Frontier for Religion and Health Research

This paper advocates for a renewed focus into the experiential domain of religious and spiritual expression in research on physical and mental health. Most studies, up to now, have investigated risk or protection associated with behavioral measures of religiousness, whether public behaviors such as...

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Main Author: Levin, Jeff (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V. 2023
In: Journal of religion and health
Year: 2023, Volume: 62, Issue: 3, Pages: 2065-2080
Further subjects:B Spirituality
B Health
B Transcendence
B Religion
B Research
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