Religion Spirituality and Positive Psychology

A multidisciplinary team of scholars shows how spiritual and religious practices actually do power psychological physical and social benefits producing stronger individuals and healthier societies recent years scholars from an array of disciplines applied cutting-edge research techniques to determining the effects of faith. Religion Spirituality and Positive Psychology: Understanding the Psychological Fruits of Faith brings those scholars together to share what they learned. Through their thoughtful evidence-based reflections this insightful book demonstrates the positive benefits of spiritual and religious engagement both for individual practitioners and for society as a whole.The book covers Buddhism Christianity Islam Judaism and other major traditions across culture in two sections. The first focuses on ways in which religious and spiritual engagement improves psychological and behavioral health. The second highlights the application of this knowledge to physical psychological and social problems. Each chapter focuses on a spiritual fruit among them humility hope tolerance gratitude forgiveness better health and recovery from disease or addiction explaining how the fruit is planted and why faith helps it flourish.