... spirituality have fallen into the shadow of the rise of "science and rational enlightenment" (Hill, 2003). In another example concerning myself, my beliefs concerning religion and spirituality, unconscious to myself, faded as I progressed through college where I was enrolled in evidence based science classes. In my case, it was as if a higher education erased 15 years of Sunday school ... Knowing 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 be...

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... the generic uses of "gods." However, he argues that there's not one a specific way to use the "correct (use) of language" when speaking in a theological perspective. McCutcheon discusses how implementing a "name" accurately can become an issue in two instances, both of which are in relation to the academic study of religion. He discusses how a gender neutral God language is often used within ... the feminist movement. Even in contemporary Christian circles, the use of this language is becoming less ... accepted, (words such as father, king and son) due to the persuasive powers of the .....

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... 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 of their existence, their strife during difficult times of drought and famine, and the traditional ... often represented as one of his ten avatars, or incarnations, such as Krishna or Rama. As Goddess worship in India can be traced back to the Indus Valley civilization, it is not difficult to imagine why he ...

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... specialized temporal lobe and amygdala neurons, which fire selectively in response to these images from dense neuronal fields along the neocortical surface of the inferior temporal lobe and within the amygdala. As these same neurons are multimodally responsive while subservient to all aspects of emotion, including religious feeling, it is possible for specific images to become infused with (and produce) mystical and religious emotions. The ... most common reaction of abnormal or heightened activation of the amygdala-temporal lobe is fear. Consequently, the perception of certain objects ...

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