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Faith and health overlap in other ways too. Take fasting. One of the staples of both traditional wellness protocols and traditional religious rituals is the cleansing fast, which is said to purge toxins in the first case and purge sins or serve other pious ends in the second. There are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Biology of Belief | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

See pictures of spiritual healing around the world.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Biology of Belief | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

African-American churches have been especially good at maximizing the connection between faith and health. Earlier in American history, churches were the only institutions American blacks had the freedom to establish and run themselves, and they thus became deeply embedded in the culture. "The black church is a different institution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Biology of Belief | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

The program was so successful that it has been renamed the Body and Soul project and rolled out nationally - complete with literature, DVDs and cookbooks - in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society. To skeptics who conclude that the churches have played a secondary role in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Biology of Belief | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

While churches are growing increasingly willing to accept the assistance of health-care experts, doctors and hospitals have been slower to seek out the help of spiritual counselors. The fear has long been that patients aren't interested in asking such spiritually intimate questions of their doctors, and the doctors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Biology of Belief | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

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