A key component of the intellectual work of the Baylor ISR Program for Religion and Population Health (PRPH) is the qualitative exploration of religious themes in personal and population health and public health policy.  This includes a diverse program of research and writing on a variety of topics related to religion, spirituality, and theology in health, healing, and medicine.

Current subjects of interest include:

• the history of religion and health research
• theoretical issues related to religious determinants of population health and mind-body healing
• conceptual and theoretical models of healing and the work of healers
• theological and bioethical issues at the interface of theology and medicine
• documentation of religious themes in depictions of extreme longevity
• the history of esoteric healing traditions
• discussion of theoretical and methodological issues that arise in investigating the role of spirituality in complementary and alternative medicine, energy healing, and consciousness research.