Older people who have a strong sense of spiritual belief and personal meaning in life are less likely to suffer from depression or mental health problems even when they have lost a spouse within the ...

For many, religious belief is a source of meaning and a resource for coping with life stressors that have the potential to undercut meaning. In the present study, we sought to further probe the ...

Organized religion has been on the decline for decades in the United States. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers found that online searches for the word “prayer” soared to their highest ...

Talking coherently about our enduring belief in gods is crucial to human peace and progress. Source: Guy P. Harrison From formal debates on stages to casual conversations on living-room couches, most ...

Why are beliefs so crucial in CBT? What’s the big deal? What’s all the fuss about? To answer these questions, let’s see what several of the best experts in their respective fields had to say about ...

A single psychedelic experience increased a range of non-physicalist beliefs, such as consciousness, meaning and purpose, researchers reported in the Journal of Psychopharmacology. “Guardrails against ...

(The Conversation) — Anime characters often face challenges that connect to long-standing Buddhist and Shintō teachings. In this course, students look closely at what anime is saying about life. As a ...

Religion is not central to the lives of most U.S. Jews. Even Jews by religion are much less likely than Christian adults to consider religion to be very important in their lives (28% vs. 57%). And ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) As a scholar who studies Japanese religion and has a lifelong love of visual ...