Read “An Analysis of the Field of Spirituality, Religion and Health,” by David Hufford for an overview on studies on religion and health.

Read “Faith, Healing: Is There a Proven Link?,” about the debate between Sloan and Harold Koenig, founding co-director of the Center for the Study of Spirituality, Theology and Health. The article is from the Nov. 25, 2003, Columbia Spectator.

Excerpt from Animals Rights and Human Obligations by Tom Regan and edited by Regan and Peter Singer (Prentice Hall, 1989). It is published on Webster University’s (St. Louis, Mo.) website.

Feb. 12, 2002, testimony of James F. Jarboe, Domestic Terrorism Section Chief, Counterterrorism Division, FBI, before the House Resources Committee’s Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health on “The Threat of Eco-Terrorism” in which he discusses some animal rights activism as domestic terrorism.

Peter Singer’s assessment of the animal rights movement in the May 15, 2003, New York Review of Books.

Feb. 6, 2004, article from the San Francisco Business Times describing the effects of strident and violent animal rights activism on the biotech industry.

Read a critique of the literature on religion, spirituality and health by Richard P. Sloan, director of the behavioral medicine program at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, N.Y.

Read about the “relaxation response” as defined by the father of mind-body medicine research, Dr. Herbert Benson.

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