Special Issue "Religion, Spirituality and Health"
A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444). This special issue belongs to the section "Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2022) | Viewed by 13139
Special Issue Editors
Interests: psychotherapy and religion; spirituality

Interests: clinical psychology; epidemiology; behavioural science; health psychology; psychiatry; aging / gerontology

2. Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, University Hospital Basel, 4037 Basel, Switzerland
3. Research Institute for Spirituality and Health RISH, 4900 Langenthal, Switzerland
4. Senior Consultant, Clinic SGM Langenthal, 4900 Langenthal, Switzerland
Interests: conceptual issues in whole person medicine; integrating religion and spirituality into clinical practice; impact of R/S on the outcome of holistic treatment approaches; spirituality and cardiovascular diseases; spirituality and pain
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The present Special Issue covers the topic of the 8th European Conference on Religion, Spirituality and Health, ECRSH 2022 (see www.ecrsh.eu), which will be held in Amsterdam, NL, 2–4 June 2022: “Religious, Spiritual and Existential Aspects in Mental Health Care”.
The following topics will be discussed:
Previous research on religion, spirituality and health; importance of definitions; understanding mechanisms and pathways; highest priority studies for future research; strengths and weaknesses of religion and spirituality measures; designing different types of research projects; statistics and statistical modeling; funding your research; writing a grant; managing a research project; writing a research paper for publication; developing an academic career in this area.
Tentative completion schedule:
- 01-04-2022 abstract submission deadline
- Notification of abstract acceptance: accepted
- Full manuscript deadline: 01-09-2022
Prof. Dr. Peter J. Verhagen
Prof. Dr. Arjan Braam
Dr. René Hefti
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- religion, spirituality and health
- strengths and weaknesses of religion and spirituality measures
- research on religion and mental health