Study of religion

including religion and spirituality in group counseling. The article discussed college student beliefs and preferences of including religion and spirituality in group counseling sessions. The clients were between the ages 18 to 30 years old. There were quantitative and qualitative studies performed for the collection of data. This study included several measures of apprehensions, interrogations, and observations. Young adults tend to search for identity and may seek preferences for religion…

of Philosophy of Religion, Metaphilosophy, Pg. 39-58.
 A. Religion has always played a vital role between humans and society, especially in terms of what is good and proper. In modern world, people have become increasingly dissociated from religion and spirituality. In the article, The Problem of Relevance and the Future of Philosophy of Religion. Thomas Carroll emphasizes the importance of the study of itself. What exactly is the study of this philosophy? This philosophical study puts focus on…

The area of discussion in this article was to understand the reason that religion makes people considerably happy, all the while there are many people ditching religion. This article attempts to explain why both matters are the case. This study began by researching the United States; as to how religious it is, as well as the happiness everyone felt especially when applied to five variables. Those five variables that would affect a person’s subjective well-being included: sufficient money for…

Christianity and Judaism are two very popular religions in society today. The two religions have similar origins but they do have different beliefs and teachings. It is important to note the differences between the two, but also the similarities. The similarities these two religions share begins with the belief in one true god. The two religions also believe in the same three spiritual beings, angels, demons and spirits. Both religions also believe that the death of Jesus was caused by…

society is due to discrimination based on religion. Bullying includes the physical, emotional, and mental aspect which allows one to form an opinion about a certain race or religion. September 11, 2001, is a prime example of the prejudicial distress that allowed Americans to make a derogatory assumptions about Muslims based on the small percentage of radical Muslims who were responsible for the bombing of the Twin Towers. After September 11, the question of religion being taught in schools…

theological anthropology and comparative studies focus on different perspectives of the studies of religion. For instance, in the category of comparative studies, the separate fields of comparative theology and comparative religion provide the analyst with the ability to look at a particular religion with either an “insider” or “outsider” disposition. These differing outlooks allow one to enhance his or her own religious values through the research of another religion. As for theological…

book The Sacred Quest: An Invitation to the Study of Religion, an example of schism was provided, “In 1947, to cite another famous example, India gained its independence from Great Britain; but in order to deal with the fears of Muslims, in particular, there had to be a partition of that subcontinent into a Muslim state (Pakistan) and a predominantly Hindu one (India)”. (Cunningham & Kelsay, 2013. p 86) In reading this it helped me understand how religions can divide a community simply because…

religious, in any religion and any orientation (intrinsic, extrinsic or quest), make you more compassionate?” is the question I hoped to have answered with this study. My original hypothesis was there was a correlation between being more religious and being more compassionate. The results of the research were inconclusive given the fact that no one who took the survey considered themselves of average religiousness (for their religion) or very religious/clergy in their religion. Because of the…

Religion is a very powerful belief system. There are so many diverse religions across the world. Yet, the one problem is, is that everyone believes their religion is the only one true religion. This creates almost like a ticking time bomb whenever you bring up religion. Somehow it always ends badly. Throughout this course we have had the long debate whether one is able to define religion? With it being such a touchy topic it makes it difficult to talk openly about. From this class I believe…

issue all over the world. From Adolf Hitler and his Nazi soldiers in Germany to the European Wars of Religion. Unfortunately, some countries still have religious conflicts today. Luckily, the United States of America is a society built on freedom. In the 1500s one of the first immigrant groups, the Pilgrims, came to America to practice their religion freely. This is where our freedom of religion originated from. Over the years the United States built the Bill of Rights and the 27 Amendments also…