This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The paper first proposes a new definition of religion which features a novel four-layered element and which does not involve any circularity ...

There are many different types of spirituality. People who practice spirituality can be heart-centered, dogmatic, intellectual or a combination of these types of belief systems. Most spiritual ...

Sunday morning, I read a Forum commentary where the writer seemed to express there was one spiritual belief system that was "true" and then humanism. That unless one embraced her belief system and ...

The number of Americans who identify as spiritual is on the rise, while many are distancing themselves from organized religion. According to a 2023 Pew Research study, seven out of 10 Americans ...

Your clients may have a broad range of religious or spiritual beliefs, practices, and experiences. These reflect the great existential challenges of life and death: making meaning of our lives, ...

The United States and the world have enough faith groups. We don’t need more and can do with less. World religions and religious splinter groups have been a source of never-ending violence. Once there ...

"I also believe that the Neanderthals practiced what we call 'Bear ceremonialism' and worshiped the Bear as a divinity," he ...

The thought of death alone is riddled with anxieties, especially pertaining to what happens after we die. Many people across the globe subscribe to some form of spiritual belief system to deal with ...

People who profess stronger spiritual beliefs seem to resolve their grief more rapidly and completely after the death of a person close to them than those with no spiritual beliefs, finds a study in ...

Two weeks after President Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 election, a group of Christian pastors stood on stage inside a nondenominational church in a suburb of Phoenix, whipping the ...

A new Oregon law will allow health facilities to return amputated body parts to patients for cultural, traditional and spiritual reasons. For some members of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, ...