Examines the role of faith and religion in American elections, including most recently the 2004 election
Analyzes religion's surprising role in voting preference
Clinical ethics is a relatively new discipline within medicine, generated not so much by the Can we . . . ? questions of fact and prognosis that physicians usually address, but primarily by the more uncomfortable gray areas having to do ...
Drawing from the latest scientific research, as well as numerous illustrative case studies, The Faith Factor offers convincing proof that religious practices can and do enhance the healing powers of medicine.
This book is the first to present new medical research establishing a connection between religion and health and to examine the implications for Eastern and Western religious traditions and for society and culture.
A textbook on how faith works: - Looking behind the scenes of visible miracles - Perfecting faith at the point of greatest weakness - Interfaces - God's supernatural solutions to our problems - Miracle faith requires miracle 'hearing' - ...
Sociology of Religion 62 (3):315–335. Becker, Penny Edgell, and Nancy L. Eiesland. 1997. Developing Interpretations. In Contemporary American Religion: An Ethnographic Reader, ed. Penny Becker and Nancy Eiesland, 15–23.
Before Popenoe's work, there was a neglected tradition that includes Bronislaw Malinowski's The Father in Primitive Psychology (1927), David Bakan's They Took Themselves Wives (1979), and Samuel Osherson's Finding Our Fathers (1986).
This book is the first to present new medical research establishing a connection between religion and health and to examine the implications for Eastern and Western religious traditions and for society and culture.
This easy-to-read delightful book takes readers through various life stories to demonstrate the importance of building faith in God and His wonderful plan for them.
Understanding the Faith Factor in Church-Based Social Ministry Heidi Rolland Unruh, Ronald J. Sider. Rokeach, Milton. 1969. Religious Values and Social Compassion. Review of Religious Research 11:24–39. Roof, Wade Clark. 1993.