Baylor University’s Institute for the Study of Religion exists to initiate, support, and conduct research on religion, involving scholars and projects spanning the intellectual spectrum.
Baylor University’s Institute for the Study of Religion exists to initiate, support, and conduct research on religion, involving scholars and projects spanning the intellectual spectrum.
Is Spirituality an Indicator of Human Flourishing?
What does it mean to live well? To be truly healthy? To thrive? Researchers and clinicians have typically answered these questions by focusing on the presence or absence of various pathologies: disease, family disfunction, mental illness, or criminal behavior. But such a “deficits” approach tells only so much about what makes for life well-lived, about what it means to truly flourish.
That’s all about to change.