Witnessing and Experiencing Miraculous Healings and Attitudes Toward Physician-Assisted Suicide
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 B...
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Type de support: | Électronique Article |
Langue: | Anglais |
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Springer
[2019]
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Review of religious research
Année: 2019, Volume: 61, Numéro: 2, Pages: 157-167 |
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
USA
/ Guérison miraculeuse
/ Expérience religieuse
/ Euthanasie
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Classifications IxTheo: | AD Sociologie des religions AG Vie religieuse CB Spiritualité chrétienne KBQ Amérique du Nord NCH Éthique médicale |
Sujets non-standardisés: | B
physician-assisted suicide
B Religious Experience B Miraculous healing |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) |
Résumé: | 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. |
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ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
Contient: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s13644-019-00363-4 |