Look but Don’t Touch

2019 ◽  
pp. 53-78
Author(s):  
Ira Helderman
Keyword(s):  
Psychology Of Religion ◽  
Carl Jung ◽  
Religion And Science ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Buddhist Practice ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
Positive Content ◽  
Relational Configurations

This chapter introduces psychotherapists’ therapizing religion approaches to Buddhist traditions. In these approaches, therapists analyze religious traditions using not only psychological methodologies (as in the discipline of psychology of religion), but psychotherapeutic theories founded on ideas about health and illness. They thus “therapize” religion. It explicates the work of Franz Alexander and Carl Jung in detail as two early representatives of these approaches - though the two arrived at very different conclusions about the pathological or positive content of Buddhist practice. It further explains that clinicians continue to therapize Buddhist traditions today, often to assess the healthfulness of Buddhist elements before “translating” or “integrating” them into their psychotherapies. This reveals the instability that lies within the relational configurations therapists imagine between the religious and the not-religious when they therapize Buddhist traditions. In their repositioning of psychotherapy within classifications like religion and science, even the early treatments of Jung and Alexander ultimately subvert the hard borderlines they mean to reinforce.

On Perceived Conflicts between Religion and Science: The Role of Fundamentalism and Right-Wing Authoritarianism

2000 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 379-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alida S. Westman ◽  
Jonathan Willink ◽  
John W. McHoskey
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Engineering ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Psychology Of Religion ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Organ Transplants ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Religion And Science ◽  
Right Wing Authoritarianism ◽  
Partial Correlations

Volunteers from fundamentalist churches and a Psychology of Religion class ( N = 77) completed Altemeyer and Hunsberger's 1992 Fundamentalism Scale, Altemeyer's 1988 Right-wing Authoritarianism Scale, and answered questions about science, religion, and their relationship. Scores on the scales were highly positively correlated. Neither orientation correlated with seeing science as improving life, and both correlated with being troubled by newer developments in science such as organ transplants or genetic engineering. Partial correlations showed that both orientations favored religious beliefs over scientific data when there was a perceived conflict. Three subscales of right-wing authoritarianism clarified how authoritarianism correlated with other measures, thereby supporting a multidimensional conceptualization of right-wing authoritarianism.

scholarly journals The Potential of Religion in the Promotion and Implementation of the Concept of Sustainable Development

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryszard F. Sadowski
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Joint Action ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Religion And Science ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The One ◽  
Ecological Potential

AbstractThis article presents religion’s potential where the promotion and implementation of the concept of sustainable development are concerned. First inspired by Lynn White in the 1960s, discussion on religion’s role in the ecological crisis now allows for an honest assessment of the ecological potential of various religious traditions and their contribution to the building of a sustainable world. This article on the one hand points to the religious inspirations behind the concept of sustainable development, and on the other highlights the joint action of representatives of religion and science in the name of sustainable development, as well as the involvement of religions in the concept’s implementation.

Aspectos Místicos e Científicos Acerca do Uso do Sangue em Diferentes Culturas da Antiguidade e na Contemporaneidade

UNICIÊNCIAS ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Izabel Cristina Santiago Lemos ◽  
Jéssica Pereira de Sousa ◽  
Denise Bezerra Correia ◽  
Luiz De Beltrão Lima Junior ◽  
Marta Regina Kerntopf ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Health Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Classical Literature ◽  
Religion And Science ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Contemporary Medicine

Acerca da utilização do sangue em diversas culturas e etnias desde tempos remotos é notório que este fluido não tem sua importância somente em práticas medicinais, mas também em rituais religiosos. O objetivo do presente estudo é realizar levantamento bibliográfico acerca do uso do sangue em diferentes culturas da antiguidade e descrever o atual uso do sangue como agente terapêutico. O estudo é uma revisão narrativa/ clássica de literatura, em que foi consultada a Biblioteca Virtual de Saúde - BVS, utilizando as bases de dados Medline; Lilacs, Wholis e PAHO. Usando os descritores em Ciências da Saúde - DeCS: História da Medicina; Civilização; Religião e Ciência; Egito; Mundo Grego; Mundo Romano; Mundo Árabe; Medicina Tradicional Chinesa e Sangue. Deste modo, fica claro que o uso do sangue por civilizações antigas esteve relacionado às tradições religiosas, sendo compreendida sua relação direta com a vida humana, embora desconhecidas suas propriedades e composição. Ainda hoje alguns povos guardam esses traços históricos na incorporação de práticas cotidianas relacionadas ao uso do sangue. Conclui-se que esse fluido já foi e continua sendo empregado, em diversas práticas culturais, sendo o objeto de estudo de suma importância para a medicina contemporânea, como evidenciado pelo procedimento de hemotransfusão e de análises laboratoriais.Palavras-chave: Sangue. Religião e Ciência. Conhecimentos. Atitudes. Prática em Saúde.AbstractRegarding the use of blood in various cultures and ethnic groups since ancient times is well known that this fluid is important not only in medical practices, but also in religious rituals. The aim of this study is to accomplish a literature review about the use of blood in different antiquity cultures and describe the current use of blood as a therapeutic agent. The study is a narrative/classical literature review, which Virtual Health Library (VHL) was consulted, using the “databases” Medline; Lilacs Wholis and PAHO and the descriptors in Health Sciences (Decs): Historyof Medicine; Civilization; Religion and Science; Egypt; Greek world; Roman world; Arab world; Traditional Chinese Medicine and Blood. Thus, it becomes clear that the use of blood by ancient civilizations was related to religious traditions, being understood its direct relationship to human life, yet unknown its properties and composition. Even today some people keep these historical traces when incorporation their everyday practices related to the use of blood. It is concluded that this fluid has been and continues to be used in diverse cultural practices, being an important object of study for contemporary medicine, as evidenced by blood transfusion procedure and laboratory analysis.Keywords: Blood. Religion and Science. Health Knowledge. Attitudes. Practice

‘Our imperiled age’: an unfinished dialogue between Carl Jung and Karl Stern

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 180-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Raphael Burston
Keyword(s):  
Psychology Of Religion ◽  
Carl Jung ◽  
The Third ◽  
Psychoanalysis And Religion ◽  
Unpublished Letter ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The Impact

Karl Stern was a Catholic psychiatrist in Montreal who published extensively on psychoanalysis and religion from 1951 to 1965. He sent a copy of his second book, The Third Revolution (1954) to Jung, who responded warmly in a (hitherto unpublished) letter dated 30 April 1960. The paper ponders the similarities and differences between Stern and Jung's approach to the psychology of religion, and the impact that Jung's belated response to Stern's book might have had on Stern subsequently.

Medizin im Islam

1998 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 258-265
Author(s):  
Pater Antes
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Orthodox Medicine ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
Traditional Approaches

Abstract Health and illness are not objective concepts but rather issues which depend upon cultural and religious traditions. In Islam there are two traditional approaches to these concepts: prophetic medicine and the medicine of the Islamic Middle Ages, which was strongly influenced by Galen and Hippocrates. Tody, Islam is increasingly looking at modern western orthodox medicine. With regard to Muslim patients, however, it is still necessary to take into account the peculiarities of their religious traditions.

Comparative Methods in Spatial Approaches to Religion

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-322
Author(s):  
Whitney A. Bauman
Keyword(s):  
Natural World ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Religion And Science ◽  
Single Plane ◽  
Religion And Ecology ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Emergence Theory ◽  
Dependent Arising ◽  
Spatially Oriented

Recently, a number of methods for re-thinking ideas as part of the rest of the natural world (including religious ideas and values) have appeared on the religious studies landscape. Notions of emergence theory, new materialisms, and object-oriented ontologies are geared toward thinking about religion and science, ideas and nature, values and matter from within what Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari call a “single plane” of existence. Others within the field of “religion and ecology/nature” are skeptical of these “postmodern” methods and theories. These skeptics claim that ideas from various religious traditions such as pantheism, panentheism, animism, and even co-dependent arising already do the intellectual work of re-thinking “religion and nature” together onto an immanent plane of existence. This article will begin to explore some of the links and differences between older traditions of thinking immanence with more recent post-modern moves toward spatially-oriented ways of thinking. Rather than being a final reflection on these connections and differences, this article calls for a more sustained comparative study of these different spatial approaches.

Buddhist-Christians in Cambodian America

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-70
Author(s):  
Briana Wong
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
Western World ◽  
Religious Activity ◽  
Cambodian Americans ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Buddhist Practice ◽  
Western View ◽  
The Temple ◽  
The Church

Former refugees from Cambodia, along with their American-born children, frequently travel between the two countries, thereby blurring the lines between ‘Cambodian’ and ‘American’ identities. At the same time, there exists an almost ubiquitous conception of Cambodian cultural heritage as inseparable from Buddhist religious affiliation. In this context, some Cambodian-Americans who have adopted Christianity maintain both religious identities. Engaging in religious activity at the temple and at the church, these Buddhist-Christians defy the widely held Western view of religions as mutually exclusive of one another. Honouring two or more religious traditions is far from unusual in Cambodia, where the royal coronation ceremony combines Buddhist and Hindu elements, and where Chinese or indigenous Cambodian religious practices often infuse daily Buddhist practice. In this article, I explore dual religious belonging in the Cambodian-American context and call attention to the ways in which it exemplifies a perspective, prevalent in the non-Western world, that religion is hybrid by default; often is driven by a desire to enhance faithfulness vis-à-vis one's primary religion, be it Buddhism or Christianity; and can be characterised by a longing to maintain Khmer cultural identity while also acquiring potential practical and spiritual benefits associated with Christianity.

scholarly journals Can Religiosity Be Explained by ‘Brain Wiring’? An Analysis of US Adults’ Opinions

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 586
Author(s):  
Sharan Kaur Mehta ◽  
Christopher P. Scheitle ◽  
Elaine Howard Ecklund
Keyword(s):  
Narrow Range ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Religious Experiences ◽  
Representative Survey ◽  
Religion And Science ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
Attitudes About Science ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
The Relationship

Studies examining how religion shapes individuals’ attitudes about science have focused heavily on a narrow range of topics, such as evolution. This study expands this literature by looking at how religion influences individuals’ attitudes towards the claim that neuroscience, or “brain wiring,” can explain differences in religiosity. Our analysis of nationally representative survey data shows, perhaps unsurprisingly, that religiosity is negatively associated with thinking that brain wiring can explain religion. Net of religiosity, though, individuals reporting religious experiences are actually more likely to agree that brain wiring can explain religiosity, as are individuals belonging to diverse religious traditions when compared to the unaffiliated. We also find that belief in the general explanatory power of science is a significant predictor of thinking that religiosity can be explained by brain wiring, while women and the more highly educated are less likely to think this is true. Taken together, these findings have implications for our understanding of the relationship between religion and science, and the extent to which neuroscientific explanations of religiosity are embraced by the general US public.

scholarly journals Religionspsykologi som teori om den individuelle religiøsitet

1988 ◽  
Author(s):  
Troels Nørager
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
William James ◽  
Psychology Of Religion ◽  
The Self ◽  
Original Formulation ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Complementary Relation ◽  
Scientific Status ◽  
Methodological Problems

The first part of this essay deals with some of the theoretical and methodological problems related to the scientific status of psychology. On this basis, the precarious position of psychology of religion is addressed and the author suggests that the discipline’s future is dependent upon realizing the necessity of returning to the original formulation of the task and purpose of psychology of religion, i.e. the creative investigation of the individual’s religion. The second part is a survey of four major positions in the psychology of religion (William James; experimental and psychoanalytic psychology of religion, and approaches from social psychology) and leads, finally, to a brief discussion of some of the more interesting perspectives: (1) the relation between “classic” and “contemporary” approaches of psychology of religion; (2) the influence of secularization and the complementary relation between the scientific perspective of psychology of religion and the self-understanding of religious traditions, groups and persons; (3) the prospect of a future theoretical convergence in psychology of religion.

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