国外宗教与健康关系的研究述评

The Relationships between Religion and Health:A Review of Foreign Studies

国外对宗教与健康之间的关系研究从20世纪中期开始;研究的主要内容包括宗教与寿命、宗教与癌症、宗教与心理健康等;宗教对健康的影响机制主要有行为模式假说、心理因素假说以及神秘因素假说;存在的问题是研究不够细化、跨文化研究少以及采用何种研究方法仍然存在分歧;将来的研究趋势集中于宗教对健康影响机制的探讨。

Foreign studies which are about the relationship between religion and health started in the mid 20th century; the main content of these researches are about the religion and life, the religion and cancer, the religion and mental health; there are three hypotheses about how the religion influences health： good behavior hypothesis, psychological factors hy pothesis, holy factors hypothesis; the problems of these studies are that these researches are not meticulous, have little cross-cultural researches and have no unified research methods; in the future, the research will also focus on the mechanism how the religion influences health.