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 question by distinguishing ... instructors are more likely to refer to the ultimate reality in non-gendered terms. Furthermore, although McCutcheon's begins to give an alternative of answering this problem, whi...

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... not pursue an education at Rosemead. This was also partly due to a third reason mentioned by Hill stating that some believe religion and 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 in an instant. A fact that is not true of my non-science based c...

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... and Thirty Million Gods" The documentary "Three Hundred and Thirty Million Gods", narrated by David Gyre, explores the ancient religion of Hinduism in it's native India, elucidating its philosophies and offering first-hand accounts of its 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 ... in India, showing footage from traditional ritual services. The audience is able the grasp the concepts of ritual purity, and is exposed to the various aspects...

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... . These nuclei are "primary in regard to memory, the production of visual imagery, and the expression and perception of most aspects of emotion (including religious ecstasy)." One of the more primitive limbic system nuclei is the hypothalamus, which mediates the expression of intense, rudimentary, and transient motivational states. It controls the desire to eat, drink, attack, or engage in ... brains that evolved, develops, and is organized in a similar manner, they have inborn tendencies to create, dream of, and respond with mystical awe to specific images and symbols. The evolution of ...

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