December 5th, 2011 | For more on this event, please visit: bit.ly/tS6mjo
Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs | Georgetown University

Are religious people happier and healthier than their non-religious neighbors or is association with religion deleterious to one's health and happiness? Though these questions have sparked debate among scientists and philosophers for centuries, serious inquiry into the complex associations between religion, health, and happiness date back only a few decades.

As part of its standing seminar series on the relationship between religion and the human experience, the Religious Freedom Project invited two pioneers in the field of the relationship between religion and health to debate these and other questions at an interdisciplinary seminar on Monday, December 5, 2011. Although the research has shown an association between the presence of religion in a person's life and an increase in the positive measures of health and happiness, important questions such as the causal mechanism of the relationship and the variance between religions remain to be fully understood.

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