MISSION

CRISH has its mission to promote health care and the relief of illness:

Conduct and support scientific research into spirituality, culture, healing, and health care, and the interaction between them.

Develop medical therapies and treatments or health care services that incorporate knowledge of spirituality, culture and healing, and integrate knowledge of spirituality, culture and healing into existing medical therapies and treatments or health care services.

Advance education regarding spirituality, culture, healing, and health care

Foster communication and knowledge transfer regarding spirituality, culture, healing, and health care among health care academics, practitioners, policy-makers and organizations.

Create a community that furthers scientific enquiry into the spiritual dimension of health care.

COMMITMENT

CRISH is committed to:
Building a community of scholars, scientists, educators, and practitioners focused on spirituality and various healing traditions.

Collaborating through rigorous projects that extend our knowledge of spirituality and healing and that respond to the needs of individuals and communities in spiritual emergencies and to the world crisis.

Publishing an e-journal, and organizing seminars, workshops, and conferences to raise awareness and stimulate discussion within the larger scholarly community.

Disseminating information to the public through an
e-newsletter, e-magazine, and public presentations.

Developing education or intervention programs based on research findings to ease individual, community, or world suffering.

Supporting new initiatives to influence political and health care systems.