• In the 2,500-year history of Buddhism, the religion has directed its energy inward in an attempt to train the mind to understand the mental state of happiness, to identify and defuse sources of negative emotion and to cultivate emotional states like compassion to improve personal and societal well-being. (urbandharma.org)
  • Approaches like the latter are isolated from their cultural and religious roots by the Western complementary and alternative medicine and directed against migraine. (unexplained-mysteries.com)
  • Psychology linked to complementary and alternative medicine. (bvsalud.org)
  • The objective of the study was to fi nd out if there is any evidence that C. G. Jung or his followers integrated Analytical Psychology and Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) in their practice. (bvsalud.org)
  • 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)
  • Religion and human rights intersect in a variety of ways. (cuny.edu)
  • Several genres of writing stereotypically intersect with the topics of medicine and religion: empirical studies of religion's impact on various health outcomes, historical studies of the relationships between religion and medicine, and general guidebooks on being a more spiritually sensitive healthcare practitioner. (jcrt.org)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Various cultures hold different attitudes in their approaches to healing. (cuny.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)
  • And this claim alone makes a study of their teachings and of the credentials of their religion more than worth while. (ecatholic2000.com)
  • The goal of the Program in Religious Studies is to expose students to different scholarly and pedagogical approaches to a variety of religious teachings. (brandeis.edu)
  • Written by internationally renowned scholars, this Companion maps the moral teachings of the world s religions, and alsocharts new directions for work in the field of religious ethics. (lu.se)
  • This is the first book that provides access to twelve Continental philosophers and the consequences of their thinking for the philosophy of religion. (lu.se)
  • As such, it provides challenging questions about the way forward for philosophy of religion in the twenty-first century. (lu.se)
  • 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)
  • [ 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)
  • Given the importance of moral, social, aesthetic, and other value questions in our lives, religion will expand your educational horizons. (cmich.edu)
  • The reason for the physical effect of religion and spirituality is not cleared in detail yet since it has to be looked for in the complex relationship of body and mind. (unexplained-mysteries.com)
  • Traditionally, spirituality has resided and been contained within religious frameworks but while the links between the two areas are still acknowledged by many in the contemporary world, spirituality is perceived by some as an aspect of human life that is distinct from religion. (lu.se)
  • 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)
  • Zollman even believes in the battiest of all forms of magic medicine, homeopathy ( download pdf ), for which she totally misrepresents the evidence. (dcscience.net)
  • Background: Analytical Psychology was thriving when the roots of counter-culture movements and alternative medicine were beginning to gain momentum in the West. (bvsalud.org)
  • [ 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)
  • While the focus will be on the major religions in the U.S., other traditions are included and welcome in discussion. (cuny.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)
  • The study of religion, as a liberal arts discipline, is ideally suited to these purposes. (cmich.edu)
  • Product description: What role should religion play in a religiously pluralistic liberal society? (lu.se)
  • Through the use of religious texts, fiction, guest speakers and art we will examine approaches to the body, suffering, death and healing. (cuny.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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Religion is one of the most important forces shaping history, culture, and personal experience. (cmich.edu)
  • The Program in Religious Studies, through its unique and dynamic interdepartmental course work, strives to deliver a deep understanding of the multi-faceted nature of religion. (brandeis.edu)
  • Peteet and Balboni have made a thoughtful, useful contribution to the growing field of religion and medicine, for which we owe them our thanks. (jcrt.org)
  • In West-Central Africa, Bakongo and Yoruba people created medicine bags using leather or cloth and placed feathers, animal parts, roots, herbs and other ingredients for protection. (wikipedia.org)
  • It is recognized by now that religious people generally enjoy more quality of life, live more healthily and longer and tend less to depression and suicide provided that it is a religion which emphasizes positive human values like love, justice, welfare, freedom, etc. (unexplained-mysteries.com)
  • The authors address specific and highly contested issues as assisted suicide, stem cell research, cloning, reproductive health, and alternative medicine as well as more general questions such as who legitimately speaks for religion in public bioethics, what religion can add to our understanding of justice, and the value of faith-based contributions to healthcare. (lu.se)
  • The religion known as 'Christian Science' has grown during the 1950's at a rate, in America, England, Australia, and other English-speaking countries, which establishes its claim to the attention of all interested in the problem of religious Truth. (ecatholic2000.com)
  • Above all is such a study of interest when Christian Science is compared with the Catholic religion, for it makes an appeal to miracles such as those which the Catholic Church is accustomed to offer as part of the evidence of her truth. (ecatholic2000.com)
  • Because they know that, despite its name, Christian Science is a denial of the religion of Christ. (ecatholic2000.com)
  • He received his B.A. in Religion and Political Science from Emory University, his MAR in Theology from the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, his M.Div. from Yale Divinity School and his Th.M. with a concentration in Ethics from Duke Divinity School where he was Westbrook Fellow in the Program in Theology and Medicine. (jcrt.org)
  • Should science replace religion? (sciforums.com)
  • Meaning, even in the matter of dying children, science may be a better answer than religion. (sciforums.com)
  • The first book to focus on the interface of religion and bioethics, this collection fills a significant void in the literature. (lu.se)
  • The word Juju is used in the African Diaspora to describe all forms of charms made in Hoodoo, African Diaspora Religions and African Traditional Religions. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Christian religion teaches that Christ is the Eternal Son of God who became man for our salvation, who suffered death on the Cross to expiate our sins, who rose from the dead and ascended into Heaven, having established His Church to teach all nations in His name till the end of the world. (ecatholic2000.com)
  • 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)
  • Then feasted they all day till the setting of the sun then, along came a ragged jew dragging a huge wooden cross as he approached the feast table of the gods the gods grew silent then he flung his cross onto the feast table of the gods and the gods just faded away. (sciforums.com)
  • Our approach to this study stresses critical reading and writing skills, a broad base of global understanding, and reflection on ethical issues. (cmich.edu)
  • Balboni and Peteet both employ and modify these traditional approaches to the topic, making this book uniquely suited for use by health care practitioners. (jcrt.org)
  • Brett McCarthy and Warren Kinghorn explore the role of theology in evaluating religion and health. (jcrt.org)
  • promotes the articulation of activities between health professionals and traditional medicine, under the concept of complementarity and with the use of norms and agreements that guarantee timely and quality care for the population, and respect for the decisions of individuals and communities. (bvsalud.org)
  • Health personnel shall respect traditional and/or ancestral medical systems, the development of their own models of care and shall seek to articulate the provision of health services with the practices of traditional and/or ancestral medicine, thus making it possible to respond to the needs of indigenous peoples, Afro-descendants and others in their socio-cultural context and in the territory they inhabit. (bvsalud.org)
  • The questions dealt with are those which have been submitted both at public lectures on religion, and to a popular radioquiz session during the past sixteen years since 1942. (ecatholic2000.com)
  • An examination of questions raised in religious faith and in disbelief, concentrating particularly on the challenge to religion made by existentialism. (cuny.edu)
  • and by specialists of these populations, holders of the knowledge and know-how of these medicines. (bvsalud.org)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Generally, it is acknowledged that religions regulate the feelings of the people and therefore have an effect on the immune system and the psyche. (unexplained-mysteries.com)
  • That's why I specify 'organized religion' when I'm talking about the institutions, to differentiate that social phenomenon from the people who profess a faith - and whose degree of sincerity varies greatly. (sciforums.com)
  • The names may not be familiar to those who don't follow the antics of the magic medicine community, so here is a bit of information about some of them. (dcscience.net)
  • Now, like most magic medicine it is privatised. (dcscience.net)