منابع مشابه
London Looks at Mental Health
Boroughs recently spent an intensive weekend in two study conferences concerned with mental health problems in their areas: one run by the NAMH and the other by the London Boroughs Committee. Since April 1st of this year, these authorities have been responsible for running education, health, children's and welfare services previously administered by county and county borough councils. The NAMH'...
متن کاملCan Prayer Increase Gratitude?
The objective of these studies was to determine the strength and direction of the relationship between prayer and gratitude. In Study 1 (n 674), the authors replicated the cross-sectional association between prayer frequency and gratitude that has been demonstrated in previous research. In Study 2 (n 780), prayer frequency predicted gratitude 6 weeks later even when controlling for initial grat...
متن کاملEfficacy of Prayer
A child praying before lunch, 1936 Determining the efficacy of prayer has been attempted in various studies since Francis Galton first addressed it in 1872. Some studies have reported benefit, some have reported harm, and some have found no benefit from the act of praying. Others suggest that the topic is outside the realm of science altogether. According to the Washington Post, "...prayer is t...
متن کاملDiffused Religion and Prayer
It is quite likely that the origins of prayer are to be found in ancient mourning and bereavement rites. Primeval ritual prayer was codified and handed down socially to become a deep-rooted feature of people‟s cultural behavior, so much so, that it may surface again several years later, in the face of death, danger, need, even in the case of relapse from faith and religious practice. Modes of p...
متن کاملDistant Intercessory Prayer 1 Running head: INTERCESSORY PRAYER AND TASK PERFORMANCE Distant Intercessory Prayer and Task Performance
In an extension of research demonstrating causal effects of intercessory prayer for physical healing in a medical setting, the present study experimentally examined the effects of intercessory prayer for improved task performance in an employment setting. Trained customer service representatives either did, or did not, receive (over a 14-day period) daily intercessory prayer for the specific ne...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Irish Church Quarterly
سال: 1911
ISSN: 2009-1664
DOI: 10.2307/30067100