Integrative Medicine is Religion

Here are a few articles which discuss the fact that promoting activites such as Yoga, Reiki, and Acupuncture is in fact promoting religion. Many health care facilites are unintentionally evangelists for eastern religions.

Careful Consumers of Complementary and Alternative Medicine
This is an article written by a professor of Religious Studies who explores the impact of these modalities on a person's religious practice.


Alternative Medicine as Religion
Written by a surgeon with no religious affiliation this post provides an objective assessment of the situation.

How Far Can You Stretch?
Here's an article from The Economist that discusses how different world religions deal with Yoga.