When Religion Goes Awry: Religious Risk Factors for Poorer Health and Well-Being

Religion and Psychiatry: Beyond Boundaries

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 389-411

  Raiya, Hisham Abu ^a   Pargament, Kenneth I ^b   Magyar Russell, Gina ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carl Jung's 'God almightiness' does not make man divine, it merely fills him with arrogance and arouses everything evil in him; Criteria for evaluating religion truth based criteria, pragmatic criteria and process criteria; Problematic attachment to God God serving as an attachment figure; Problematic religious integration and religious rigidity and inflexibility; Problematic religious motivation; Religion, exerting its impact on health through physiological and biological mechanisms; Religion, not a fixed set of beliefs and rituals; Religion, significant human phenomenon receiving little attention in modern psychological inquiry; Religious practices and beliefs important to people in countries around the world; when religion goes awry religious risk factors for poorer health and well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958167093     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470682203.ch22     Document Type: Chapter

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