RT Article
T1 Witnessing and Experiencing Miraculous Healings and Attitudes Toward Physician-Assisted Suicide
JF Review of religious research
VO 61
IS 2
SP 157
OP 167
A1 Sharp, Shane
LA English
PB Springer
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1667966979
AB Drawing on insights from cognitive psychology, I argue that the religious experiences of witnessing and/or experiencing a miraculous physical healing event will be negatively associated with attitudes towards physician-assisted suicide. I evaluate this argument using data from the 2007 wave of the Baylor Religion Survey (N = 1598). I find that those who have witnessed and/or experienced a miraculous physical healing have more negative attitudes toward physician-assisted suicide than those who have not witnessed and/or experienced such an event, even when controlling for religiosity, sociodemographic, and personality factors. These results show that researchers should consider if and how religious experiences influence people's attitudes.
K1 Miraculous healing
K1 physician-assisted suicide
K1 Religious Experience
DO 10.1007/s13644-019-00363-4