Disability and Religion: Studies and Overview Document List

Disability and Religion Publications - (24 Articles)

• Teaching of Evolution Not Influenced by Religion in Schools
  Research shows religion is not the factor that most influences rejection of evolutionary theory by high school students.
  Publish Date: 2022-12-14 - Updated: 2023-01-03

• Churches Must Diversify Usage or Perish
  With the continuous departure from religion, an audit finds the future of rural churches lies in their significance as assets for the wider community.
  Publish Date: 2022-11-15

• Religious Trauma Syndrome (RTS)
  Information regarding Religious Trauma Syndrome (RTS), pervasive psychological damage resulting from religious messages, beliefs, and experiences.
  Publish Date: 2022-09-30

• How Digital Religion is Shaping Millennial Spirituality
  As digital forms of communication increased, many in the religious community saw an opportunity to stem the tide of secularization in North America.
  Publish Date: 2022-07-27 - Updated: 2023-01-04

• Spirituality Equals Better Health Outcome and Patient Care
  Spirituality should be incorporated into care for severe illness and overall health, as focusing on spirituality in health care means caring for the whole person, not just the disease.
  Publish Date: 2022-07-12 - Updated: 2023-01-04

• The Basis of Antiscience Beliefs
  Research suggests same four factors that explain how people change their beliefs on issues can account for the recent rise in anti-science attitudes.
  Publish Date: 2022-07-11 - Updated: 2023-01-04

• You Are Indispensable! God Needs You
  Marcy Hernandez, founder of Alpha Prayer International and Gracie's Place Art Studio and Design, writes regarding her life with polio and religion.
  Publish Date: 2021-07-24

• God, Religion and the Socially Disconnected
  University of Michigan research study reveals religious people who lack friends and purpose in life turn to God to fill those voids.
  Publish Date: 2021-06-13 - Updated: 2022-07-11

• Religious Freedom Laws Linked to Poor Health in LGBT People
  Study survey reveals after Indiana passage of Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) sexual minorities increasingly reported poor health.
  Publish Date: 2018-10-21 - Updated: 2021-06-13

• Disabled God: Disability Ethics Research Paper
  Disability Ethics research paper by Rev. S. Manohar Pradeep from Bangalore India regarding well being of persons with disability for moral theologians and ethicists.
  Publish Date: 2018-05-06 - Updated: 2021-06-13

• Why We Believe in Gods: Religious Beliefs Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking
  Studies have suggested people who hold strong religious beliefs are more intuitive and less analytical, and when they think more analytically their religious beliefs decrease.
  Publish Date: 2017-11-08 - Updated: 2022-07-11

• Neurological Link Between Religious Experiences and Epilepsy
  Research supports the notion that the human propensity for religious or spiritual experiences may be neurologically based.
  Publish Date: 2017-03-09 - Updated: 2021-06-13

• Creation, Evolution, and the Handicapped: Crushing the Death Image
  Pastor Richard Luther Corwin attempts to expose New Gnosticism of evolutionary priesthood, announces release of debut book, Creation, Evolution, and the Handicapped.
  Publish Date: 2016-06-23 - Updated: 2021-06-13

• The Delusional World of Man Made Deities
  Paper examines the delusional world of man-made Gods, the uselessness of prayer, and the primitive barbaric legends found in the Bible.
  Publish Date: 2016-05-24 - Updated: 2022-12-27

• Conflict Between Science and Religion is All in Our Mind
  Researchers discover the conflict between science and religion may have its origins in the structure of our brains.
  Publish Date: 2016-03-24 - Updated: 2021-06-13

• Muslims with Disabilities in UK, US and Canada
  Muslim Social Research Network launches study to understand needs of Muslims with disabilities.
  Publish Date: 2015-12-13 - Updated: 2021-06-13

• Online Church for Deaf and Hard of Hearing
  Central Florida congregation launches new option for worshipers - live streaming services interpreted for deaf and hard of hearing.
  Publish Date: 2015-07-31 - Updated: 2021-08-07

• Spirituality and Patient Recovery Time
  Spirituality helps to sustain health care workers and patients by recognizing and supporting a sense of meaning and purpose in life.
  Publish Date: 2014-11-10 - Updated: 2021-06-13

• Mental Illness: Are Churches in the Dark?
  Kristi Lemley author and counselor offers solutions for Christian leaders to help people struggling with mental illness.
  Publish Date: 2014-05-12 - Updated: 2021-06-13

• Loss of Faith and Family Struggles when Relative Dying
  Examining family struggles with anger and forgiveness when relative is dying including relationships with God and faith.
  Publish Date: 2013-02-18 - Updated: 2022-02-13

• Face to Face with God by Jim Maxim
  Face to Face with God is a story of supernatural experience after an alcohol induced car crash shattered his face and nearly took his life.
  Publish Date: 2013-01-10 - Updated: 2021-12-30

• U.S. Supreme Court Considers Religious Exception to Anti-Discrimination Laws
  United States Supreme Court to decide if ministerial exception which allows religious institutions to discriminate for certain positions encompasses disability.
  Publish Date: 2011-11-25 - Updated: 2021-06-13

• Physicians Face Ethical Conflicts with Religious Hospitals
  Primary care physicians nationwide face clinical ethical conflicts with religious hospitals.
  Publish Date: 2010-04-09 - Updated: 2021-06-13

• Faith Communities and Respite Care Fact Sheet
  Faith communities often have resources such as respite facilities volunteers and expertise in education and healthcare.
  Publish Date: 2009-04-28 - Updated: 2021-06-13