• While the focus will be on the major religions in the U.S., other traditions are included and welcome in discussion. (cuny.edu)
  • The Program in Religious Studies (PRS) is designed to deepen each student's understanding of religion and its manifestations through required interdepartmental exploration: surveying systematic approaches to the field and completing courses in at least two different religious traditions. (brandeis.edu)
  • For example, the study of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam will bring great depth to one's understanding of the historical development of individual traditions during a given epoch, as well as of the related art, literature, and politics of the societies practicing these religions. (brandeis.edu)
  • In this program students survey the world's religions and a variety of approaches to religious studies, study specific religious traditions, and learn additional methods and contexts in which these traditions are situated. (brandeis.edu)
  • A person's medication experience is his or her personal approach to the use of medicines and is shaped by a person's traditions, religion, culture, life experiences, and what they have learned from others. (umn.edu)
  • The Religion Department at Middlebury seeks to acquaint students with the world's major religious traditions, with varieties of global religious experience, and with religious approaches to a broad range of topics and questions. (middlebury.edu)
  • We emphasize the study of individual religious traditions, because we hold that a solid understanding of one is crucial for developing an appreciation for other traditions and for religion as a fundamental human experience. (middlebury.edu)
  • Are you interested in how religious traditions have shaped, enhanced, hindered, and otherwise influenced human civilizations and cultures? (middlebury.edu)
  • Our curriculum strives to balance intellectual immersion in the thought and history of distinct traditions with comparative analysis across multiple religions. (middlebury.edu)
  • Early modern healing and medicine continued medieval traditions and were simultaneously transformed as a result of radical scientific, religious, and social changes. (fordham.edu)
  • India's ancient history played a crucial role in shaping religious and philosophical traditions. (worldchroniclenews.com)
  • Sellers has presented her research at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art in the Brooklyn Museum and on the Native American Traditions panels at national conferences of the American Academy of Religion, Association for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Modern Language Association, National Women Studies Association, and the International Society for the Study of American Women Writers, among others. (gettysburg.edu)
  • In the present day there is a vital resurgence of interest in religions, with new movements emerging from long established religious traditions. (lu.se)
  • There is also, around the world, a growing sense of the need to preserve indigenous religions, even when these have accommodated to imported traditions. (lu.se)
  • Different traditions, beliefs, and practices surrounding death are common to all cultures and religions, and they have resulted in conflict regarding anatomic dissections and postmortem examinations. (medscape.com)
  • 1] People from more westernized or diverse environments tend to have less cohesive connections with traditions, religion, and beliefs, and have a greater acceptance of autopsies. (medscape.com)
  • 2022) include `societal supported spread of infectious diseases' hidden sexuality, emotional dissatisfaction, social context, under the cover of cultures and traditions. (who.int)
  • Here & Now 's Robin Young talks with Dr. Ray Barfield , professor of pediatrics and Christian philosophy at Duke Divinity School, which has a program focused on theology, medicine and culture. (wbur.org)
  • First known to be documented in the Yellow Emperor's Canon of Medicine, TCM is believed to have been practised in as early as 475 to 221 B.C. The field of working knowledge of TCM stretches from anything related to general healthcare practice to the philosophy of the mind, the logic of life, religion, and even to as far as cosmology and astronumerology. (tcmbasics.com)
  • Aaron James Goldman is a research fellow in Philosophy of Religion at Lund University and the secretary of the research program. (lu.se)
  • He studies modern European philosophy and religious thought, as well as theories and methods in the study of religion. (lu.se)
  • Patrik Fridlund , Docent and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Religion at Lund University, serves on the steering committee for the research program. (lu.se)
  • Each religion has a variety of resources with which to address issues of socially just societies, and people within the same and across the religions have different views. (cuny.edu)
  • In south Asia religions like Buddhist, Hindu, Islam, and Christian has shaped the personalities of women and social status in societies. (artscolumbia.org)
  • Such changes afford a unique opportunity to discuss forms of Jewish interaction with Christian and Muslim societies and developments within Jewish learned and popular culture. (fordham.edu)
  • Religion represents the universal experience of humankind in evolving organised societies. (indiatimes.com)
  • The role of culture (local, global, and public), religion and faith, social structures and societies in shaping, supporting or undermining health care and health insurance. (advance-africa.com)
  • Of course, long before Western medicine was able to define and demonstrate it empirically, the world's ancient practitioners of traditional medicine have been reaping the benefits of this integrative mind-body approach to healing for centuries, if not millennia - under the dismissive, even scornful eye of the Western medical establishment. (themarginalian.org)
  • Even the world's most common medicine can be traced to a decoction from the white willow that Dioscorides recommended for gout. (dhushara.com)
  • Seniors: If your graduation date is coming up before May 2023 or May 2024, you need to complete REL 501WI: Research Seminar in Religion during the Fall of 2023 and then REL 505WI: Research Seminar in Spring 2023 or Spring 2024. (cmich.edu)
  • In August 2023, I started a six-month-long mobility trip to the Faculty of Political Science of Marmara University in Istanbul as part of a research and training project, "Central Asian Law: Legal Cultures and Business Environments in Central Asia. (lu.se)
  • The panel will explore the intersection of early Christian conceptions of the body and developing Christian attitudes toward medicine. (medicineandreligion.com)
  • For At the End of the World , Scheuer explores how apocalyptic imaginary of the Hebrew Bible and early Jewish literature shaped conceptions of gender and otherness. (lu.se)
  • The conference seeks to probe conceptions of culture in the study of Shi'i Islam while equally considering the relevance of history, politics, form, meaning, and context for understanding Shi'i lived religion. (lu.se)
  • Frustrated with the American practice of yoga and its distorted view of the Hinduism upon which it is based, the influential Hindu American Foundation has launched a campaign to "Take Back Yoga" by reminding people that yoga is indeed part of the Hindu religion. (womenofgrace.com)
  • Various cultures hold different attitudes in their approaches to healing. (cuny.edu)
  • I am also writing a short monograph on the theme of ' Roman noses ', partly exploring Roman approaches to smell, and partly examining the relationship between nose size/ shape and character/ behaviour in ancient thought. (nottingham.ac.uk)
  • We also maintain, however, that it is important for students to have experience with comparative approaches to the study of religion. (middlebury.edu)
  • Carolyn Moxley Rouse '87, a medical anthropologist and faculty associate in the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University, delves into the complicated ethical border between more medicine as a solution for ameliorating racial health care disparities and evidence-based approaches (popularly known as "death panels") that allocate resources according to particular types of evidence. (swarthmore.edu)
  • Historical approaches to health in the Arab region (for example: history of health practices, health and medicine under colonial, post-colonial and neo-colonial conditions). (advance-africa.com)
  • The contemporary field of religious studies contributes significantly to a liberal arts education, cultivating the investigation of religious thought, ritual, spiritual insight, culture, history, and sacred texts. (brandeis.edu)
  • The modern field of religious studies is an important part of a liberal arts education, allowing for the study of religious thought, ritual, culture, history and texts, often in a comparative context. (brandeis.edu)
  • The exposure to a wide range of religions often opens whole new fields of inquiry to the student: some extend their studies into languages, literature, history, law, and even the sciences. (brandeis.edu)
  • I wrote my doctoral thesis on 'Concepts of Colour in Ancient Rome' under the supervision of Mary Beard , to whom I owe a great deal for my interests and inspiration in Roman history and culture. (nottingham.ac.uk)
  • The Aesthetic Shape of History" explores viewing Indian manuscripts and archival spaces as art rather than content. (uww.edu)
  • This exhibit aims to provide insights into how the aesthetic forms used to present critical history and culture can be visually striking. (uww.edu)
  • Religion is one of the most important forces shaping history, culture, and personal experience. (cmich.edu)
  • Applegate studies the culture, society and politics of modern Germany, with particular interest in the history of music, nationalism and national identity. (vanderbilt.edu)
  • An understanding of religion is essential to a true comprehension of human culture, world history, global politics, and international conflict-not to mention the worldviews of billions of people. (middlebury.edu)
  • The study of early modern medicine in its relation to the Jewish community broadly conceived brings together intellectual, cultural, religious, and social history and affords a powerful means to assess interaction between different religious and social groups. (fordham.edu)
  • Surveys the history of African Americans from their African origins to the present, investigating their critical role in shaping the meaning of race, rights, freedom, and democracy during slavery, reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the civil rights era. (bu.edu)
  • So, let us embrace the enchanting stories and valuable lessons that this ancient history offers and appreciate the remarkable legacy that has shaped the India we know today. (worldchroniclenews.com)
  • Her research expertise is on 20th-century European history, Cold War culture, and the history of civil defence, propaganda and psychological defence. (lu.se)
  • The history of smallpox is remarkable not only because of the spectacular devastation it wreaked upon civilization since the dawn of humankind, but also for the astounding achievement of modern medicine, which eradicated this plague through the concerted efforts of global vaccination (see the image below). (medscape.com)
  • A modern critical study of religion using a variety of methods to further understanding of the role of religion in personal and social life. (cuny.edu)
  • Now, some medical schools are finding ways to teach students about religion and how it can play a role between doctors and patients. (wbur.org)
  • but the rigid culture and patriarchal attitudes devalued the position and role of women. (artscolumbia.org)
  • I am also the author of several articles in the field of Roman visual culture (particularly the role of colour and form on marble sculpture), and am editor (along with Shane Butler , Johns Hopkins) of a series of six volumes on ' The Senses in Antiquity ' for Routledge. (nottingham.ac.uk)
  • This makes it relevant to any of the fields in which religion plays a role, as well as those that require similar skills of analysis and understanding. (cmich.edu)
  • It is suggested that Reason can still have a place in the theory of revolution, but instead of determining the shape of and limits to emancipation, it must assume a more narrowly circumscribed role in a partnership with other concepts equally central to human life. (philpapers.org)
  • His role as the Chief Belief Officer is to help construct a new effective culture for the entire organisation. (indiatimes.com)
  • 4. The role of culture in defining the experience and expression of distress. (who.int)
  • What role do artforms and material cultures play in the facilitation and negotiation of Shi'i ideas, norms and ways of life? (lu.se)
  • Associated physical, social and psychological cultured imposed consequences were experienced by women in Nigeria. (who.int)
  • This introductory course considers what is distinctively religious about religions. (cuny.edu)
  • As an interdisciplinary program, PRS helps its students to gain a broad understanding of religions, the peoples who practice them, and their modes of belief, particularly of those religions outside the student's usual experience. (brandeis.edu)
  • The New York Times is reporting that the "Take Back Yoga" campaign is not necessarily aimed at convincing the 15 million Americans who currently practice it to become Hindu, but it wants people to be more aware of yoga's links to the religion. (womenofgrace.com)
  • As a result of smallpox infection, whole civilizations, including the Incas and the Aztecs, were destroyed in a single generation, and efforts to ward off the disease indelibly affected the practice of religion and medicine. (medscape.com)
  • In his Moral Foundations theory , Jonathan Haidt says that human concepts of purity are shaped by the psychology of disgust and contamination, and holds that the body is a temple that can be desecrated by eating something that has been contaminated. (witchesandpagans.com)
  • Product description: This two-volume handbook presents the most comprehensive coverage of the current state of the psychology of religion and spirituality. (lu.se)
  • The Bishop was none other than St. Augustine of Hippo, who offers a thorough explanation of the resurrected body in De Genesi Ad Litteram VI and in De Civitate Dei XXI and XXII, but here in this letter 205, he brings contemporary medicine into conversation with theology. (medicineandreligion.com)
  • Pagans don't judge me for what would be odd and quirky in average American culture: talking to land spirits, a fondness for discussing theology, and a willingness to embrace difference. (witchesandpagans.com)
  • How have the scientific revolution and the development of Western Medicine shaped the way we understand healing today? (cuny.edu)
  • This healing path is extensive and appears in cultures all over the world. (openafrica.org)
  • Early modern scholars, pharmacists, medical doctors, and popular healers advanced significant arguments that drew from and shaped new understandings of human nature and subsequently altered the interactions between healing, religion, and society. (fordham.edu)
  • Given the remarkable historical participation of Jews in medicine-formally and informally-and rich scope of available sources regarding Jewish participation in and attitudes toward healing and medicine, the proposed thematic workshop will expand the exploration of many different early modern themes. (fordham.edu)
  • A number of useful studies have already examined Jewish engagement with healing and medicine across historical periods and contexts. (fordham.edu)
  • Students analyze texts, histories, and the ways in which human beings have understood their world as reflected in their beliefs, ethics, rituals, artifacts, and organizations of religions. (brandeis.edu)
  • But the United States also does not welcome the potential global ramifications of states recognizing Indigenous Peoples' rights to land, resources, languages, cultures, spiritual beliefs, and self-determination - all upheld by the Declaration. (ips-dc.org)
  • This paradigm sheds light on the many purposes religion serves, the rich variety of religious and spiritual beliefs and practices, and the capacity of religion and spirituality to do both good and harm. (lu.se)
  • An attitude through which an individual learns about other cultures in conjunction with becoming more aware of one's own beliefs and identities, intended to result in greater mutual understanding, equity, honesty, and trustworthy relationships. (cdc.gov)
  • Although cultural or religious beliefs are often cited as a reason for opposition to autopsy, most religions and cultures find autopsy acceptable on the basis of either the individual's beliefs or under what are deemed to be special circumstances. (medscape.com)
  • Their overwhelming knowledge of herbal medicine cannot be lost. (openafrica.org)
  • They can also be healers and usually have an extensive knowledge of herbal medicine. (openafrica.org)
  • Of the Pagans I know who garden, raise livestock animals, or grow their own food or herbal medicines, every single one has a relationship with the land, and the living beings that thrive there. (witchesandpagans.com)
  • The fight was on, and an important debate began to take shape on the internet and throughout the American yoga community and among religion scholars. (womenofgrace.com)
  • One of the those scholars, Loriliai Biernacki, a professor of Indian religions at the University of Colorado, told the Times that she believes the debate is raising important issues about a spectrum of Hindu concepts that have permeated American culture, including meditation, belief in karma and reincarnation, and even cremation. (womenofgrace.com)
  • There is also emergent interdisciplinary scholarship that our list failed to include because late ancient scholars were just starting to publish on these topics six years ago when our goals took shape. (ucpress.edu)
  • Featuring a team of international contributors, and edited by one of the most widely respected scholars in the field, The Blackwell Companion to the Study of Religion provides an interdisciplinary and authoritative guide to the subject. (lu.se)
  • How does one's own suffering shape his/her idea of God? (cuny.edu)
  • That drew the attention of Dr. Deepak Chopra, an Indian-American New Age guru who promotes Indian practices such as yoga and Ayurvedic medicine. (womenofgrace.com)
  • With an identity all its own and quite distinct from other regions in Japan, it is a culture once again increasingly relevant in today's world of borderless communications. (brill.com)
  • Religious studies is a vital component to liberal arts education in today's world, and the Religion department actively contributes to interdisciplinary programs at Middlebury like American Studies, Environmental Studies, Women and Gender Studies, and International Studies. (middlebury.edu)
  • The question of social justice is at the heart of many public debates of our time, and religions make important contributions to assumptions, questions and policy discussions. (cuny.edu)
  • Religions proclaim attitudes towards each aspect of reality--personal, social, universal and absolute--and then use these attitudes to build structures of value and meaning which ultimately form the basis of the adherents' general outlook on life. (cuny.edu)
  • Given the importance of moral, social, aesthetic, and other value questions in our lives, religion will expand your educational horizons. (cmich.edu)
  • The study of religion educates you in skills of analysis, interpretation, and comparison, and gives you a solid grounding in global cultures and social issues. (cmich.edu)
  • Considers why they gained considerable authority in realms of medicine and technology but have proven far more limited in their impact on morality and religion Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Social Inquiry I. (bu.edu)
  • Quote, "When people learn about social inequality, extant and other cultures, they often react with horror. (swarthmore.edu)
  • The publication is very timely especially in light of the need for religions of the world to together contemplate and actively promote human rights, social justice and peace, for religions have a specific mandate for this. (lu.se)
  • This course will examine these various intersections between religion and human rights. (cuny.edu)
  • Study English Literature at Oxford Brookes, and you'll examine critical moments and movements in culture and society. (brookes.ac.uk)
  • Examine human culture past and present through a range of archaeological techniques. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • Students also investigate the changing relationships between religion and elements of the wider culture, and learn the theories and methods used in the study of religion. (brandeis.edu)
  • For At the End of the World , Cronqvist will investigate nuclear temporalities and preparedness cultures in relation to both climate and nuclear disaster imaginaries. (lu.se)
  • For At the End of the World , Goldman investigates right-wing conspiritualities from a perspective empowered by classic theories of religion. (lu.se)
  • This is a direct outgrowth of her long-term research experience in Southern Brazil, where she has been collaborating on a birth cohort study using ethnographic methods and anthropologically informed epidemiological surveys to explore how the medicalization of child and adolescent development have been shaped by health care reform, the governance of health and economic inequities, and the psychiatric deinstitutionalization movement. (vanderbilt.edu)
  • I want to bring a nuanced understanding of how legal cultures, local business setups, and governance in Uzbekistan are linked to the challenges faced by developing nations in balancing economic growth and environmental protection. (lu.se)
  • And that's very important verse for someone who believes their child's illness - which is the mountain - can only be cured, once we've come to the limits of medicine, if they have enough faith. (wbur.org)
  • Students attend a religion course taught by faculty member Guy Newland. (cmich.edu)
  • Students attend class taught by Religion faculty member Laurel Zwissler. (cmich.edu)
  • We highly recommend making an appointment with a religion faculty advisor as you are making plans for next year. (cmich.edu)
  • 3] Certain religions have objections to autopsy (eg, Islam, Judaism) in that bodily intrusion violates the sanctity of keeping the human body complete, despite those religious doctrines not strictly forbidding it. (medscape.com)
  • The continent is still facing tremendous challenges even today & in creating the conditions for a peaceful community, providing all citizens with access to education, medicine and hygiene care, and in improving housing and living conditions. (bukuq.com)
  • I also have interests in the reception of the ancient world in modern European culture, and I am editor of Classics and Imperialism in the British Empire (2010, Oxford University Press), an interdisciplinary volume examining the interactive relationship between classical ideas and British imperialism from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. (nottingham.ac.uk)
  • By allowing for a great deal of information to be recorded and shared, books have helped to shape and mold cultures throughout the world. (ccgedicions.com)
  • Discover Shakespeare's stories and the world that shaped them. (folger.edu)
  • Religion and human rights intersect in a variety of ways. (cuny.edu)
  • It will give you insight into the human condition as well as an international understanding of this and other cultures. (cmich.edu)
  • Considers the common factors that shaped women's lives as well as women's diverse class, ethnic, and regional experiences. (bu.edu)
  • These include a format and shape that are easily portable and durable, a common set of conventions for page layout and formatting, the use of an alphabet to represent written language, and the division of text into chapters. (ccgedicions.com)
  • While this has not, in my experience, been the case with the Pagans I know, it is common in many other religions. (witchesandpagans.com)
  • This Handbook has the potential to redress the distortion of information about particular religions, to add to understanding about what religions have in common, and to suggest how they can work together for justice and peace. (lu.se)
  • The study of religion, as a liberal arts discipline, is ideally suited to these purposes. (cmich.edu)
  • Thus, both the concept of the importance of medicine and a paradoxical account of the rejection of its importance will be seen in such a study. (medicineandreligion.com)
  • This prestigious Companion offers the most comprehensive survey to date of the study of religion. (lu.se)
  • Because of its interdisciplinary nature, as well as its focus on critical reading and thinking, a religion major at Middlebury College is quintessential liberal arts education-superb intellectual preparation for an endless variety of career and life pursuits. (middlebury.edu)
  • The romanticism of the era, academic investigations of the concept of race, as well as a negotiation of a distinct Scottish identity helped to shape a new interest in these northern characteristics. (lu.se)
  • The book's power to educate and spread knowledge has led to its widespread adoption in many areas of life, including business, science, medicine, religion, and politics. (ccgedicions.com)
  • While the politics versus religion issue has been debated for quite some time, a silent, interesting development has been taking place which needs to be highlighted. (indiatimes.com)
  • An examination of questions raised in religious faith and in disbelief, concentrating particularly on the challenge to religion made by existentialism. (cuny.edu)
  • The university, with its commitment to ethical responsibility, and the wide range of religious and ethnic backgrounds represented in its student body, provides a unique context for examining religion with open-minded curiosity and sympathetic understanding. (brandeis.edu)
  • Context Beyond The Headlines creates boundary-breaking media that reveals Christ, bringing a Christian perspective to the stories and events that shape us. (crossroads.ca)
  • My hope will be to offer this as a possible way forward as Christians think about how to bring together the science of medicine and the truth of Scripture. (medicineandreligion.com)
  • Can Science and Religion coexist? (crossroads.ca)
  • Challenges conventional wisdom that science and religion have always been at war in Europe and North America. (bu.edu)
  • Saint Phalle's maladies sparked her fascination with health science, which went on to shape one of the most vital projects of her career. (medscape.com)
  • Cardenas Bunsen's expertise is in 16th- through 19th-century colonial Latin American literature and culture. (vanderbilt.edu)
  • A native of Southern Italy, Filosa teaches Italian language, culture and literature. (vanderbilt.edu)
  • Her poetry, essays, and coyote stories have appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Native Literatures: Generations , American Indian Culture & Research Journal , Calyx: The Journal of Art and Literature by Women, and Americana E-Journal of the American Studies Institute at the University of Hungary. (gettysburg.edu)
  • This is because I will be revamping the whole website and be moving those information into a new \"Ancient Chinese Culture\" section so as to reflect a more current perspective on the interpretation of some of the fundamental concepts as well as to include some of the latest information in the area. (tcmbasics.com)
  • He has recently published his first book, Escritura y Derecho Canónico en la obra de fray Bartolomé de las Casas , in which he analyzes the epistemic nature of the arguments of early colonial period thinker Bartolomé de Las Casas. (vanderbilt.edu)
  • A Graduate Certificate in Area, Ethnic and Cultural Studies could cover a subject related to the culture and development of a certain location or population group. (gradschools.com)
  • The integrative paradigm encourages psychologists to attend to the ways religion and spirituality are expressed not only in individual lives, but also in the lives of couples, families, institutions, communities, and cultures. (lu.se)
  • A major in religion is an excellent foundation from which to pursue training and careers in medicine, law, education, business, religious leadership, and journalism. (middlebury.edu)
  • This is the coming together of religion and business . (indiatimes.com)
  • This gentleman who studied medicine became a business consultant by profession and a mythologist by passion. (indiatimes.com)
  • It is interesting that till now, apparently, no business enterprise explicitly and consciously adopted the idea of applying religion to develop organisational culture. (indiatimes.com)