Leyden Academy on Vitality and Ageing, Rijnsburgerweg 10, 2333 AA, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Faculty of Theology, Vrije Universiteit (VU), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
J Relig Health. 2023 Jun;62(3):1731-1755. doi: 10.1007/s10943-023-01750-6. Epub 2023 Feb 4.
This article addresses cases of remarkable recoveries related to healing after prayer. We sought to investigate how people who experienced remarkable recoveries re-construct and give meaning to these experiences, and examine the role that epistemic frameworks available to them, play in this process. Basing ourselves on horizontal epistemology and using grounded theory, we conducted this qualitative empirical research in the Netherlands in 2016-2021. It draws on 14 in-depth interviews. These 14 cases were selected from a group of 27 cases, which were evaluated by a medical assessment team at the Amsterdam University Medical Centre. Each of the participants had experienced a remarkable recovery during or after prayer. The analysis of the interviews, which is based on the grounded theory approach, resulted in three overarching themes, placing possible explanations of the recoveries within (1) the medical discourse, (2) biographical discourse, and (3) a discourse of spiritual and religious transformation. Juxtaposition of these explanatory frameworks provides a way to understand better the transformative experience that underlies remarkable recoveries. Uncertainty regarding an explanation is a component of knowing and can facilitate a dialogue between various domains of knowledge.
本文探讨了与祈祷后康复相关的显著康复案例。我们试图调查经历显著康复的人如何重新构建和赋予这些经历意义，并研究他们所拥有的认识框架在这一过程中所起的作用。我们基于水平认识论并使用扎根理论，于 2016 年至 2021 年在荷兰进行了这项定性实证研究。它借鉴了 14 次深入访谈。这 14 个案例是从阿姆斯特丹大学医学中心的一个医疗评估小组评估的 27 个案例中挑选出来的。每个参与者在祈祷期间或之后都经历了显著的康复。基于扎根理论方法的访谈分析产生了三个总体主题，将康复的可能解释置于（1）医学话语、（2）传记话语和（3）精神和宗教转变的话语中。这些解释框架的并置提供了一种理解显著康复所带来的变革性体验的方法。对解释的不确定性是知识的一个组成部分，可以促进不同知识领域之间的对话。
