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Neglecting 'The Forgotten Factor' |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / IS RELIGION GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH? |
| Author: Martin E. Marty |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1996 |
| Size: 1,009 Words, 6,412 Characters |
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David Larson, Mary Greenwold Milano, and Constance Barry say that they are on to such approaches and here chronicle many of the efforts to demonstrate their effectiveness. Yet they give evidence that they and the researchers on whom they report are voices crying in the wilderness. Elsewhere David Larson has written wryly and ironically how explorations such as these can even produce an "Anti-úTenure Factor," making it harder for scholars and scientists who pursue these ends and means to gain tenure, status, prestige, or funding.
Why are these approaches suspect and the approaches sometimes victims of prejudice? After many studies,...
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...rs of this article see some pathos in this smuggling. They would like to see the academy, medical researchers and practitioners, and those who report on them catching on to what the rest of the world already knows. If they do, they can bring their critical intelligence to bear in ways that do justice both to science and spirit. They might well find out that these are not always incompatibles.
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