Pentecostal healing as an expression of godly love: an empirical study

Cartledge, Mark J.

doi:10.1080/13674676.2012.696601

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“…An example of engagement with healing prayer are Pentecostal churches [ 70 ] that have more of 300,000 Italian devotees [ 71 ]. Another excellent example is the cult of Padre Pio whose sanctuary in San Giovanni Rotondo receives million of pilgrims every year [ 72 ].…”

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From Disease to Holiness: Religious-based health remedies of Italian folk medicine (XIX-XX century)

Romeo

Gallo

Tagarelli

2015

J Ethnobiology Ethnomedicine

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BackgroundThe relationship between spirituality, religion and medicine has been recognized since antiquity. Despite large differences in their history, society, economy and cultures human communities shared a common belief that spirituality and religion played an important role in the healing of diseases.MethodsThe study of religious remedies used by Italian folk medicine in order to treat diseases was based on a review of literature sources compiled between the late nineteenth century and the early to mid twentieth century.ResultsThis approach lead to the unearthing of heterogeneous healing methods that have been divided into different categories: Saints, Pilgrimages, Holy Water/Blessed Oil, Blessings, Religious Objects, Contact, Signs, Formulas and The Religious Calendar.Some of these practices, partly still performed in Italy, are a part of the landscape of the official Catholic Church, others come out of a process of syncretism between the Catholic Religion, the magic world and pre-Christian rituals.ConclusionsThe vastus corpus of religious remedies, highlighted in the present work, shows the need for spirituality of the sick and represent a symbolic framework, that works as a filter, mediates, containing the pain that constantly fills everyone’s lives in remote ages even in the third millennium. All of this confirms how important the health-workers know and interpret these existential needs from anthropological and psychological points of view.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Disease to Holiness: Religious-based health remedies of Italian folk medicine (XIX-XX century)

Romeo

Gallo

Tagarelli

2015

J Ethnobiology Ethnomedicine

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“…Sutton et al also observed significant negative associations between the extent of engagement in P/C spirituality and the anxiety and avoidance dimensions of perceived insecure attachment to God. Cartledge (2013) found that a perceived direct encounter with God emerged as a significant positive predictor of P/C healing scale scores.…”

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“…Sozo prayer (De Silva & Liebscher, 2011a, 2011b) represents a particular form of receptive prayer that shares aspects with other contemplative practices such as meditative prayer, centering prayer, and spiritual visualization (e.g., Ferguson, Willemsen, & Castañeto, 2010; Jankowski & Sandage, 2014a; Mastropieri, Schussel, Forbes, & Miller, 2015). Individual differences in religious beliefs (i.e., professed theology) tend to result in distinct forms of prayer (e.g., Parker, 2014), and as such, Sozo prayer is a form of receptive prayer grounded in Christian Pentecostal/Charismatic (P/C) spirituality and theology (Poloma & Hoelter, 1998; see also, Cartledge, 2013). The primary goal of Sozo prayer is to promote greater closeness to God by changing negative perceptions about God and fostering positive interaction (De Silva & Liebscher, 2011a).…”

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The effectiveness of a prayer intervention in promoting change in perceived attachment to God, positive affect, and psychological distress.

Monroe

Jankowski

2016

Spirituality in Clinical Practice

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We explored the effectiveness of receptive prayer, operationalized specifically by Sozo prayer, and examined pre-to posttest change in perceived attachment avoidance to God. Forty-three adults (M ϭ 37.58 years old; 76.7% female, 86% White; 90.7% Christian affiliated) received the prayer intervention at 1 of 3 sites located in the Midwest, South, and Western United States. We tested latent change models based on the theoretical assertion that reduced perceived attachment avoidance with God (i.e., increased closeness) would significantly predict increased positive affect and lower psychological distress at posttest. Results offered support for the first hypothesis, as we observed an increase in perceived closeness with God following a receptive prayer intervention. Results partially supported hypothesis 2 as increased perceived closeness with God (Holy Spirit) predicted increased positive affect and lower psychological distress at posttest. We also found that gains in positive affect mediated the association between gains in perceived attachment to God (Holy Spirit) and pre-to posttest reduction in psychological distress. Receptive prayer, as an affect regulation strategy in response to distress, appears to have an immediate benefit. Results therefore advance theorized change processes in the literature on Pentecostal/Charismatic (P/C) spirituality and theology, attachment to God, and mindfulness-based practices.

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“…Religious conversion is a process by which a person commits to the beliefs of a new religious tradition and shifts away from their previously held religious beliefs (Stark and Finke 2000). Whilst religious conversions take place mainly for spiritual reasons, a range of other personal and sociocultural factors also underpin such conversions (Parrucci 1968;Cartledge 2013;Doron and Broom 2013;Stronge et al 2021). Political changes in a country's history and religious freedom tend to play a role in accelerating modernisation and social changes such as religious conversion (Wankhede 2009;Falla 2001;Turner 2013;Fernandes 2011).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Whilst a milieu of personal emotional and psychological, sociocultural, and economic factors interplay in a myriad of complex ways, financial and material incentives cannot solely explain the process of religious conversion (Rambo 1993). Previous studies on religious conversion in Nepal reported that religious conversions were mainly connected with health, healing, and educational opportunity (Cartledge 2013;Doron and Broom 2013). As religion is considered a journey of peace, joy, good health (healing), security, prosperity, and eternity amongst other things, an attempt to understand religious conversion should be understood as a part of broader transformative social-political process (Grudem 1994;Foucault 2002).…”

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Pedalling Out of Sociocultural Precariousness: Religious Conversions amongst the Hindu Dalits to Christianity in Nepal

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Christian conversion has become a major topic of discussion amongst academics, religious leaders, and policymakers alike in recent decades, especially in developing countries. Nepal has witnessed one of the highest rates of Hinduism to Christianity conversion in South Asia. Whilst there are no legal restrictions for religious conversion in Nepal, the conversion from Hinduism to Christianity appears to be disproportionately higher amongst Dalit communities in Nepal. However, religious conversion amongst Nepalese Dalits is yet to be fully understood. This research uses mixed methodologies of data collection and analysis to explore various issues related to religious conversion amongst Hindu Dalits into Christianity in Nepal. Results indicate whilst elderly and female Dalits tended to convert to Christianity, a range of factors specific to personal and communal biographies including social, cultural, emotional, and spiritual interplay together to shape the process of religious conversion amongst the Dalits. The paper concludes that the study of religious conversion should consider a range of sociocultural factors to fully understand the dynamics of religious conversion amongst Dalits.

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Pentecostal healing as an expression of godly love: an empirical study

Cited by 4 publications

References 44 publications

From Disease to Holiness: Religious-based health remedies of Italian folk medicine (XIX-XX century)

From Disease to Holiness: Religious-based health remedies of Italian folk medicine (XIX-XX century)

The effectiveness of a prayer intervention in promoting change in perceived attachment to God, positive affect, and psychological distress.

Pedalling Out of Sociocultural Precariousness: Religious Conversions amongst the Hindu Dalits to Christianity in Nepal

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