Abstract

QUICENO, Japcy Margarita  and  VINACCIA, Stefano. The health in the mark of the psychology of the religion and the spirituality. Diversitas [online]. 2009, vol.5, n.2, pp.321-336. ISSN 1794-9998.

The present work has as aim present a review of the impact that has had in the health "the psychology of the religion and the spirituality". There are examined the historical precedents of this concept from its origins up to coming in the middle of the 20th century where it begins and one gives increasing summit in the researches based on the evidence of the relations of the religion and the spirituality in the mental and physical health, equally an approximation is done to the researches on the processes of intervention in health focused from the spirituality. In conclusion, there are great the researches that raise that the religion and the spirituality are moderating and buffering variables before traumatic events of the life like it is a disease

Keywords : spirituality; religious beliefs; religious coping; disease; intervention in health.

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