... 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 question by distinguishing how the theological language can be categorized between a gender ... references, the instructor may refer to the ultimate reality by only one term. An illustration of this is seen in Western societies, where in...

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... mystery. Later in the film, Gyre discusses Hinduism with a sannyasin; a renouncer of society, an enlightened man. Humble in nature and unwilling to discuss his life prior to his renunciation of the material world (as it is not reality, according to him), this "Mahatma" gives an account of life as a "great soul". According to the Hindu Asramas, or stages of life, a sannyasin is in his fourth and final stage; entering retirement, he will ... own beliefs, I would have to say that I am Jewish, turned agnostic, turned atheist, turned existentialist, turned nothing; and although I now refuse ...

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... it was as if a higher education erased 15 years of Sunday school in an instant. A fact that is not true of my non-science based childhood friends. With the use of global indices such as self-rated frequency of church attendance, religion and spirituality have demonstrated to be successful predictors of health related outcomes. These global indices posses limited reliability and ... important and necessary to provide skilled, therapeutic resources available and congruent with a patient's belief systems. Training in religious and cultural issues is imperative in health psychology for the p...

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... system not only explains how certain emotions and stimuli are connected to feelings of spirituality and religious fervor, but it is also capable of outlining the sensations associated with near-death and out-of-body experiences. Feelings of extreme fear commonly produce "perceptual and hallucinogenic experiences, including dissociation, depersonalization, and the splitting off of ego functions" (Joseph 114). The out-of-body experience is a result of an abnormally activated hippocampus (a limbic ... system nucleus). The hippocampus contains the capacity to cognitively map or visualize on...

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