Religious Coping News Today

The Muslim researcher Hüseyin Çaksen, of state-run Necmettin Erbakan University, in Turkey, has has received backlash for frightening ideas that claim MS is a punishment from Allah.

To the editor:  I’m writing to protest the biased reporting of your November 2 article “A demonologist is coming to Aroostook to banish a curse.” It is irresponsible journalism to write about the notion of possession from a purely religious perspective, without mentioning the scientific consensus that there is no evidence that demons exist.

Focusing on faith and growth provide a way forward.

An undated image of the human brain taken through scanning technology. | REUTERS/Sage Center for the Study of the Mind, University of California, Santa Barbara/Handout A new study from the University of Illinois reveals that religious people rely on coping strategies used by psychologists when working through stressful life situations. The study, titled “Religiosity and Resilience: Cognitive Reappraisal and Coping Self-Efficacy Mediate the Link between Religious Coping and Well-Being,” was...