Sarah Demmrich

2 papers in the library · publishing 2018-2022

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Mental and Behavioural Responses to Bahá'í Fasting: Looking behind the Scenes of a Religiously Motivated Intermittent Fast Using a Mixed Methods Approach.

Nutrients February 28, 2022 Raphaela M Ring, Clemens Eisenmann, Farid I Kandil et al.

Background/objective: Historically, fasting has been practiced not only for medical but also for religious reasons. Bahá'ís follow an annual religious intermittent dry fast of 19 days. We inquired into motivation behind and subjective health impacts of Bahá'í fasting. Methods: A convergent parallel mixed methods design was embedded in a clinical single arm observational study. Semi-structured...

DOI: 10.3390/nu14051038 Full text Mindfulness Humans Fasting Motivation +8

Music as a trigger of religious experience: What role does culture play?

Psychology of Music June 27, 2018 Sarah Demmrich

Music and religion are linked in many ways. For example, music can trigger religious experiences, which has been a topic since the beginnings of the study of the psychology of religion. Whether this musical effect is culture-dependent, a pure neuropsychological phenomenon, or a combination of both remains empirically unanswered. This cross-cultural experiment among n = 84 Turks andn = 63...

DOI: 10.1177/0305735618779681 Full text