Spirituality, Religion, and Human Health: connecting the empirical and the profound at the intersection of science and religion Tobias Anker Stripp, Center for Science and Faith, University of Copenhagen   Even though the discourse of modern biomedical healthcare appears to render little attention to questions of spirituality or religion, the relationship between spirituality, religion and human health has always been intricate and entangled. Prior to our era, the priest and medical doctor occupied one role: the shaman. With universal tropes in all global theologies, exemplified by the story of the Good Samaritan, the spiritual life of humans has always been linked to health and care for the ill (Gill, 2006; Stripp, 2023). The field of “religion and health” has emerged from the fringes of academic discourse to become