Editorial

Excerpt

It has long been noted within the pages of this journal that the phenomena of human religiosity/spirituality have played and continue to play an enormously important and complex role in our species’ quest for self-understanding, happiness and self-transcendence. The founders of the Journal of Religion and Health argued that to study the complexity of the phenomenology of religion and spirituality and its impact upon the human spirit for good or ill required an interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary approach to the religious/spiritual dimension of life. I think it is fair to say that the Journal, in its nearly 50-year career as a scholarly enterprise and an existential venture, has never strayed from that imperative to search broadly and deeply through the human sciences and the humanities for the most comprehensive vision possible of the human spirit in search of the divine or the sacred. …