Testing Prayer: Science and Healing

by Candy Gunther Brown

Book Overview

When sickness strikes, people around the world pray for healing. Many of the faithful claim that prayer has cured them of blindness, deafness, and metastasized cancers, and some believe they have been resurrected from the dead. Can, and should, science test such claims? A number of scientists say no, concerned that empirical studies of prayer will be misused to advance religious agendas. And some religious practitioners agree with this restraint,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674064674
• ISBN13: 9780674064676
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.4"