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The Future of 'The Forgotten Factor'
Section: MODERN THOUGHT / IS RELIGION GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH?
Author: Stephen Post
Publication: The world & I online
Issue Date: 2/1/1996
Size: 887 Words, 5,908 Characters

Given this context, the world needs more people like Dr. David Larson. I have had the pleasure of knowing him for several years and have observed his leadership role in getting "the forgotten factor" into the limelight of research. His efforts, now directed through the National Institute for Health Research, are routinely recognized in the national media. His April 1995 conference titled "Spiritual Dimensions in Clinical Research," sponsored by NIHR and supported by Sir John Marks Templeton, brought together leading clinical empirical researchers who presented papers on methodological issues, as reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association. FOOTNOTE: 1

But Dr. Larson's climb has been uphill. While the extreme p...


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...Multidisciplinary and Cross-cultural Presence among the Human Sciences (University of California, Santa Barbara: Department of Religious Studies, 1990).

FOOTNOTE: 4.Smart, The Study of Religion, 4.

FOOTNOTE: 5.Smart, The Study of Religion, 10.

FOOTNOTE: 6.Stephen Carter, The Culture of Disbelief: How Law and Politics Trivializes Religious Devotion (New York: Basic Books, 1993), 3.



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