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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Auteur principal: Sharp, Shane (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Springer [2019]
Dans: 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
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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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.
ISSN:2211-4866
Contient:Enthalten in: Review of religious research
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s13644-019-00363-4