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Is Faith an Emotion?

Faith as a Meaning-Making Affective Process: An Example From Breast Cancer Patients

JOHNNY RAMÍREZ-JOHNSON

Loma Linda University

CARLOS FAYARD

Loma Linda University

CARLOS GARBEROGLIO

Loma Linda University

CLARA M. JORGE RAMÍREZ

Loma Linda University

To understand the meaning of religious faith within the context of theobiology, this study reports on the findings of a study of breast cancer (BC) patients and how they defined faith with emotion words and reported via open-ended short narratives how religious faith helped them in coping with their BC. When defining faith, BC patients preferred positive emotion words (82.9%) over negative emotion words (17%). Still, the fact that negative emotion words were used at all indicates the need to understand religious faith as a construct that encompasses negative as well as positive emotions. BC patients confirmed the historical views of Thomas Aquinas on the role of emotions in religious faith.

American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 45, No. 12, 1839-1853 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/0002764202045012006
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