Psychological perspectives on infanticide in a faith healing sect.

Hughes, Richard

doi:10.1037/0033-3204.27.1.107

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“…However, the nature of Marley's religious (Rastafarian) beliefs contributed to his refusal of the recommended therapeutic approach, amputation (White, 1983). This incident parallels many other accounts of religious beliefs taking precedence over procedures advised by medical professionals and people using their own beliefs to justify refusals of medical treatment for others, including their own children (e.g., Asser & Swan, 1998;Hamilton, 2005;Hughes, 1990Hughes, , 2005Wooley, 2005). Such situations prompt questions pertaining to why and how an individual's cultural and religious belief system can influence medically oriented decisions in ways that may ultimately compromise physical health.…”

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Exploring the existential function of religion: The effect of religious fundamentalism and mortality salience on faith-based medical refusals.

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Arndt²,

Cox³

et al. 2009

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Decisions to rely on religious faith over medical treatment for health conditions represent an important but understudied phenomenon. In an effort to understand some of the psychological underpinnings of such decisions, the present research builds from terror management theory to examine whether reminders of death motivate individuals strongly invested in a religious worldview (i.e., fundamentalists) to rely on religious beliefs when making medical decisions. The results showed that heightened concerns about mortality led those high in religious fundamentalism to express greater endorsement of prayer as a medical substitute (Study 1) and to perceive prayer as a more effective medical treatment (Study 2). Similarly, high fundamentalists were more supportive of religiously motivated medical refusals (Study 3) and reported an increased willingness to rely on faith alone for medical treatment (Study 4) following reminders of death. Finally, affirmations of the legitimacy of divine intervention in health contexts functioned to solidify a sense of existential meaning among fundamentalists who were reminded of personal mortality (Study 5). The existential importance of religious faith and the health-relevant implications of these findings are discussed.

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Exploring the existential function of religion: The effect of religious fundamentalism and mortality salience on faith-based medical refusals.

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Arndt²,

Cox³

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“…Religious groups noted for shunning modern medicine include Jehovah's Witnesses, who refuse procedures involving blood transfusions (Dubowitz & Black, ), and Christian Scientists, who favor prayer treatment (Swan, ) over modern medical procedures (Talbot, ). Faith healing of various kinds is also practiced by smaller fundamentalist sects, such as the General Assembly Church of the First Born (Santa Barbara News Press, ; Tsai, ) and the Faith Assembly, which teaches that medicine, science, and education are Satan's work (Hughes, ).…”

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Religion‐Related Child Maltreatment: A Profile of Cases Encountered by Legal and Social Service Agencies

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Goodman

Tolou‐Shams

et al. 2015

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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Religion can foster, facilitate, and be used to justify child maltreatment. Yet religion-related child abuse and neglect have received little attention from social scientists. We examined 249 cases of religion-related child maltreatment reported to social service agencies, police departments, and prosecutors' offices nationwide. We focused on cases involving maltreatment perpetrated by persons with religious authority, such as ministers and priests; the withholding of medical care for religious reasons; and abusive attempts to rid a child of supposed evil. By providing a descriptive statistical profile of the major features of these cases, we illustrate how these varieties of religion-related child maltreatment occur, who the victims and perpetrators are, and how religion-related child abuse and neglect are reported and processed by the social service and criminal justice systems. We end with a call for greater research attention to these important offenses against children.

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Parentally Mandated Religious Healing for Children: A Therapeutic Justice Approach

Loue¹

2012

J Law Relig

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Significant controversy surrounds individuals' reliance on religious healing approaches to the treatment of illness, particularly when such efforts focus on the provision of care for children. These approaches, rooted in organized religions and their theologies, encompass a wide range of practices, ranging from prayer, meditation, and the laying on of hands, to exorcism, speaking in tongues, Spiritism, shamanic intervention, and various rituals of Santería. Numerous faith communities espouse one or more forms of religious healing while discouraging reliance on conventional medical treatments: These communities include the Christian Science Church, the Church of the First Born, End Time Ministries, Faith Tabernacle, Followers of Christ Church, Bible Believers' Fellowship, Christ Assembly, Christ Miracle Healing Center, Church of God Chapel, Church of God of the Union Assembly, Holiness Church, Jesus Through Jon and Judy, “No Name” Fellowship, Northeast Kingdom Community Church, and The Source.Others, such as the Assemblies of God, have moved away from an exclusive reliance on religious healing practices to a more holistic approach that combines religious-healing with at least some aspects of biomedicine. For many of these listed groups, health and illness represent the physical manifestation of moral concerns relating to salvation, which can only be addressed through religious healing.

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Psychological perspectives on infanticide in a faith healing sect.

Cited by 9 publications

References 8 publications

Exploring the existential function of religion: The effect of religious fundamentalism and mortality salience on faith-based medical refusals.

Exploring the existential function of religion: The effect of religious fundamentalism and mortality salience on faith-based medical refusals.

Religion‐Related Child Maltreatment: A Profile of Cases Encountered by Legal and Social Service Agencies

Parentally Mandated Religious Healing for Children: A Therapeutic Justice Approach

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