... a patient, when to use and when to avoid religion in therapy, and to make referrals on issues outside their scope of practice. Asking a vegetarian (who is so because of religious affiliation) to increase their red-meet consumption to improve their protein intake, could be disastrous in a professional relationship. The second recommendation of spiritual assessment and religious history taking is also beneficial in determining interventions, finding social support ... outlets, and evaluating the role of religion and spirituality in a patients life (Potts, 1998). Specific meanings of relig...

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... of poisonous plants or "unclean" animals or forbidding indiscriminate sex, which spreads venereal diseases or viruses. In addition, as sex and food are among the most powerful of all limbic emotions and motivators, many religions have been highly concerned with fertility and food (Joseph 122). Abnormalities in sexuality, uncontrolled rages, and other irregularities of complex emotions (referred to as Kluver-Bucy syndrome) can be attributed to abnormal or ... excessive limbic system activity and is often accompanied by deepened religious fervor (Joseph 125). Evidence of this temporal lob...

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... 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 ... can be traced back to the Indus Valley civilization, it is not difficult to imagine why he majority of Hindu gods are readily depicted in both art and literature with their female consorts. The ...

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... refers to 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 religious knowledge, not claiming knowledge of a certain religion. This reflects the diminishing of role of the "masculine" language ... proposes what is considered to be "critical pluralism" as a critical methodology whereby the variety is assumed to be diversity and its components are therefore isolated and can be examined individually and characterized in terms of their relation...

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