... experiences often arise. Following abnormal activation or stimulation, some individuals report that they have communicated with spirits or received profound knowledge from the spiritual world (Joseph 113). Additionally, common methods of attaining states of religious and spiritual awareness such as "isolation, food and water deprivation, increased or decreased sexual activity, pain, drug use, self-mutilation, prayer ... subservient to all aspects of emotion, including religious feeling, it is possible for specific images to become infused with (and produce) mystical and religious emotio...

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... backdrops. Case in point is the omission of any reference to 'God'. Competing religious traditions would not have been able to agree on language to describe human rights from a common existence under 'God', and communist delegations would have outright vetoed such a reference. Post-1945 the notion of human rights was constructed and conceptualised, largely through the United Nations (UN ... 'Western' philosophical, moral, cultural and religious values. From this position it does not seem possible to respect cultural difference and understandings of 'human' whilst ple...

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... undeniable. In this process, religious traditions can help in the process of forming Asian immigrant communities by giving specific Asian ethnic groups another source of solidarity, in addition to their common ethnicity, on which to build relationships and cooperation. ...

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