A meta-analysis, including 13 studies, was undertaken on the relationship between the
exercise of student prayer and academic and behavioral outcomes in urban schools …

The theoretical and empirical literature on the relationship between prayer and health is
critically reviewed. Although empirical research partially confirms that prayer promotes a …

There is increasing interest in the empirical effects of prayer on health. However, little
attention has been paid to the theoretical causal mechanisms by which health may be …

The majority of previous social scientific research on prayer has focused on the relationship
between prayer and various types of health outcomes. Only limited attention has been given …

This article reviews the empirical research on prayer and health and offers a research
agenda to guide future studies. Though many people practice prayer and believe it affects …

The purpose of this special issue of Mental Health, Religion and Culture was to provide a
forum for examples of current research and theorizing examining the relationship between …

After years of comparative neglect, a renewed research interest developed in the field of
prayer during the mid-1980s and has led to prayer being recognized as of central …

Abstract The Baylor Religion Survey (Wave 6; 2021) contains the most comprehensive set of
prayer questions of any national survey of the USA; it also contains multiple indicators of …

This chapter reports on a recent empirical investigation of prayer among a large group of
young people from both Western and Asian societies, which explored the forms of prayer …

DURING THE 1980s. several commentators remarked on the lack of empirical research
concerned with the psychology of prayer (Finney & Malony, 1985). New initiatives during the …