Editorial Board for section 'Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences'
- Religions and Theologies Section
- Religions and Humanities/Philosophies Section
- Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences Section
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Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.
Members
Interests: religion and politics; political Islam; religious extremism and counter-terrorism
Interests: health; religion; family; gender; youth; social welfare
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Interests: clinical psychology; epidemiology; behavioural science; health psychology; psychiatry; aging/gerontology
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Interests: mind-body medicine approaches; spirituality and health; quality of life; coping; questionnaire development; integrative medicine; clinical studies; health service research; spiritual dryness; awe
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Interests: social sciences; multiculturalism, ethnic and religious segregation; gender and sexuality; Islamism; integration
Interests: sociology of religion; popular religiosity; religious symbols; qualitative analysis of religion
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Interests: transcultural psychiatry; spirituality and psychiatry; SpNQ
Interests: religious healing in Pentecostalism; mental health and Islam; Prophecy and Jewish Millennialism; psychology of Atheism
Interests: meaning in life; meaning making; existential psychology; old age; chronic pain; religion; spirituality and care
Interests: religion; race; immigration; science
Interests: psychology and religion; spirituality; spirituality and health; bioethics; spiritual care
Interests: religion; health; spiritual care; spiritual assessment; epidemiology
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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Interests: psychodynamic implications of trauma and forced displacement; the intercultural dynamics within traditional pastoral care; pastoral care to marginalized populations
Interests: comparative ethics; international human rights; religion and law; ethics of war and peace; religion and political theory; African religions
Interests: religion and science; religion and health; religion and politics; religion and pedagogy; medical ethics; aesthetics; philosophy of science; public policy; public administration
Interests: psychology and sociology of religion; religion and politics; Christianity; Islam
Interests: religion; spirituality; health
Interests: psychological and spiritual adjustment following adverse life events; religious and spiritual struggles; sacred moments; desecration; spiritually integrated psychotherapy
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Interests: psychology of religion and spirituality
Interests: religious/spiritual coping; religious/spiritual struggles; sanctification; sacred moments; definitions; wholeness; spiritually integrated psychotherapy
Interests: histories of religion and education; religious education on radio and television; religious education in schools, informal and alternative contexts; RE teacher education and professionalisation; history of Christianity in the nineteenth and twentieth century; churches, state and education; faith and supplementary schooling; childhood and religion; Sunday schools; prayer and collective worship; children’s spirituality; theories and theologies of education; religion, non-religion and secularisation; religion in the Second World War
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2. Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20037, USA
Interests: humanities; spirituality; arts and music; medicine and health care; meditation; traveling
Interests: sociology of religion; history of religion; history of Christianity; religion in Latin American; world religions; history and theology of Christianity; secularization; new religious movements; comparative religion
Interests: Islam; Islamic studies; Islam-West relations; sociology of religion; contemporary Islamic thought; religious and ideological extremism; Muslim communities in the West
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Interests: Jews; religio-ethnic identity; inter-faith marriage; diasporism; migration; United States; Israel
Interests: spiritual care; nurses competences; cancer patients; spiritual needs; spiritual well-being
Interests: social categories and personal characteristics; race; ethnicity; religion; gender; opinions; beliefs; threats to social and personal identities; majority versus minority identity; multiculturalism; stereotyping/prejudice; self and identity; intergroup relations; attitudes/social influence
2. Observatory and Methods for Health, University of Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
Interests: traditional medicine/CAM; qualitative research; tibetan buddhism; spiritual healing and meditation research; epistemology and sociology of TM/CAM
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Interests: pastoral counseling; pastoral theology; theory and praxis of transformation, with pilgrimage as a specialization; expanding theories of research for pastoral praxis
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