... , 1998). Past and present reasons associated with this lack of attention from researchers is evident despite recent documentation that 95% of the United States population profess a belief in God (Potts, 1998). The limited number of professional training programs available for psychologist and social scientist that address religion and spirituality contribute to the research deficit (Hill, ... and accepting with sensitivity a patient's religious beliefs has been reported to enhance therapeutic interventions and please patients" (Potts, 1998). Religious imagery and material has also been s...

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... rituals and practices. By exposing western minds to the radically dissimilar mentality of Hinduism and the lifestyles if its practitioners, this film succeeds in explaining the central ideas of the practiced religion as well as the philosophy of Hinduism. Several of those concepts examined include: the many ... Gods and Goddesses; the ritual practice of image worship; and the lives of ascetics who denounce society and wander off alone in search of enlightenment. Throughout the fifty minutes of this film, Gyre introduces his viewers to the realities of rural Indian life; the modesty ... ...

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Russell McCutcheon's "Naming The Unnameable: Theological Language And The Academic Study of Religion," presents readers with the "wider problem of the naming and use of theological language in the context of religious studies." It poses the question, "of by what name shall academic students of religion, know the unknowable." Throughout his article, McCutcheon attempts to tackle the ... the use of "God" instead of "Father" or "King", representing more of the very essence of the "object of religious discourse and devotion in itself." Listing God as a male is making a stand of having religio...

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... phenomena including dreamlike recollections of threatening men, naked women, sexual intercourse, and the experience of a higher being. Furthermore, stimulation of the amygdala and temporal lobe often results in emotions of extreme peace and clairvoyance (Joseph 113). Activation of the amygdala is also associated with auditory hallucinations, which could logically include hearing the voice of "God" (Parker ... of religious and spiritual awareness such as "isolation, food and water deprivation, increased or decreased sexual activity, pain, drug use, self-mutilation, prayer, and meditation...

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