Religion And Spirituality And Its Influences

Religion was involved with many things in a person’s life. It affects things like social status, relationships, the economy, culture, and politics. The complex ideas of religion and politics have shaped societies. The Puritans have set their goal to make their society and way of living connected to God in every way, shape, and form. In the seventeenth century this standard to keep God by your side has deeply affected politics and lawmaking, and has even caused some people to be continuously persecuted. From the strength of their religious beliefs stemmed these radical ideas, which deeply affected lives in the 17th century. Though these ideas were a way of life at one point in time, if these ideas were applied to our government today the

The professional clinical model in the psychiatry/medical world is the ideal model. However, the professional is allowed to develop his/her own model of counseling that meets the regulations of the State and the medical world. The secular view of the professional clinical model has been condensed to represent a basic fiduciary relationship placed within a box that is supervised and regulated by outside authorities. The nature of this counseling relationship does not include religious beliefs or does it involve the Scriptures as a resource. Harold Bullock (2003) expounds on this matter, “In the contemporary Western world, we have reduced the concept of god to “no god at all.” We do not want to bow our knees to any god. So, we have concocted a mixture of science and pseudo-science to explain how everything came to being without any god behind it. Morally, we have decided that we human beings can be and do whatever we want.” Science becomes the primary authority in which all “valid” knowledge is accepted. What the world considers to be the ideal model of counseling contrasts from what the Scriptures consider counseling to be.

Within the psychology field and in society, there is a common belief that theological principles, scripture, Christianity, and psychological principles are not compatible. Instead they believe that modern psychology is secular, scientific, and sacrilegious. However, many Christian psychologists and counselors, organizations and associations such as the Society for Christian Psychology, are striving to unite, integrate and incorporate Christian values, principles and knowledge into modern psychological counseling, research, and practice. Two of the main perspectives that tries to merge the two principles and theories is the Integration perspective and the Christian Psychology perspective.

Entwistle’s concept on psychology and Christianity allows the student to foster a better understanding the importance of integrating the concepts of science (psychology) and religion. In the book the author’s opinion of integrating psychology and Christianity is displayed to possess the client’s understanding that science and religion when integrated will promote a higher probability of healing. Christianity has been a part of the lives of mankind since the fall of Adam. Entwistle believes that God has given mankind a guideline to promote living a spiritual lifestyle that is beneficial to all mankind. Although there is not a connection with psychology and Christianity,

This paper discusses the relationship of religion and psychology within the setting of interpersonal dynamic psychotherapy. It raises the question of whether and to what extent religion should be included in a therapeutic setting. Varying perspectives on this issue are reviewed, followed by an examination of the consequences of addressing religion within therapy. Several examples are offered of potential pit falls a therapist may encounter in this situation as well as suggestions for minimizing the likelihood of these occurrences. Two models are included which provide frameworks for assessing the degree

In this paper the author will explain what is faith and religion, and compare the philosophy of Sikh, Buddhism, and Jewish religions with that Christian and the author’s religion, include spiritual perspective and elements of healing, how necessary is to permit patient to practice their religious beliefs and rituals, and last, describe how this information could be incorporated into the daily health care professionals routine.

All through history, religion and what God someone follows has drastically affected their lifestyle by affecting their political statuses. The way someone lived was determined by what religion they followed politically,economically and socially. Most colonies official religion was Anglican/Church of England or Christianity but some did not have an official religion which created problems. The slaves that were forcefully immigrated to the colonies were not able to practice their own religion because some owner were extremely religious and other were not able to connect to their God or Gods. American history demonstrate that religion and the God someone followed had drastic effects with politics by not being able to be part of it, economy by not being able to own any land and make money for himself , and society by not being about to join any communities or organization extremely affected slaves to reach true happiness in the place they call home.

However, the role of religion and spirituality to various fields (psychopathology, explanatory models, treatment seeking, treatment adherence, outcome, etc.) has not received much attention. Strong amounts of religious faith have been shown to have an inferior long-term outcome with schizophrenia (Doering et al., 1998). Throoughout this study, a psychiatrist carries out the measurement of religious faith intensity, and it is impossible to retrospectively determine the extent to which the intense religious faith included the presence of religious delusions. Clearly, religious delusions, which could have been present in many of their patients, might have had an impact upon the outcome from treatment. When it comes to it that religious delusions rather than religiosity, we are responsible for the results of the outcome studies, it was the hypothesized that religiously deluded patients would incline less profit from their treatment than other patients with schizophrenia. Patients with religious delusions on admission to hospital were often prescribed more medication by their doctors (Siddle et al., 2002a). There were drastic differences in those who had religious delusions than those who had other types of

When discussing religion, many people have different perspectives about religion beliefs and how to approach it. Religion is grouped in different sections such as, religion and spirituality, religion and philosophy, and religion and politics. Religion has many different views from different cultures because everyone approaches it differently with different beliefs also. To make something religion, is to have some type of belief in God, but everyone’s belief is different depending on the culture someone is located in. In society back then and today, religion has no set essence of a definition because of the different aspects people group religion in. This paper will explain the different aspects of what people believe constitutes different types of religion.

The Christian psychology view is represented by Robert Roberts and P. J. Watson. This view points out that psychology—that is, critical reflection on “human psychic well-being and dysfunction” (150)—is ancient, not modern, in origin. Roberts and Watson maintain that there is not one universal psychology, but rather many rival psychologies. In this context, Christian psychologists wish to stake a claim for an approach to psychology that is explicitly based upon the Christian tradition. This recovery of a distinctly Christian psychology takes place in two stages: retrieving the “rich resources that lie within our own tradition” (155) and engaging in empirical research from within this framework. This latter step includes utilizing “well-established” social-scientific methods as well engaging in critical dialogue with psychologies that are based upon other worldviews. In short, Christian psychologists wish to produce a Coe and Hall defend the transformational psychology view. “worldview-explicit” psychology (175).y view. The transformational response to the view of level of explanation approach maintains that “psychology is ultimately an act of love” (199). It focuses on the spiritual and emotional transformation of the psychologist. One of the key premises of the

For many people, religion and spirituality plays a huge part of their life. In other people, religion and spirituality is not a part of their life at all. In gothic literature, religion and spirituality are usually either very present in a work, or not present at all. In some cases, the lack of religion and spirituality affect the outcome of the story. In other cases, the character’s immense beliefs in religion and spirituality can also drastically affect the outcome of the story. In the movie, The Conjuring, the lack of religion in the family drastically affects the mother and her soul. In the story, “Good Country People,” the belief of religion in the mother and the disbelief of religion in Hulga affects the outcome of the story. In the story “Hell House,” the questions about spirituality affects the outcome of the story. In the story, “The Amityville Horror,” the opinions of a church affect the outcome of the story.

Spirituality and religion beliefs are influencing the people life around the world. Historically the religious practice are determined the humans life in the way they conducted inside the society, how they dress, dietary restriction, health decision, birth and death ritual are some of the aspects that religions practice induced. The author studied the dominant religious groups as Christians, Islam and Hinduism. Particular attention to Baptist group inside the United States will discuss. Spiritual phenomena take relevance in the nursing practice, nurses should be aware the spirituality and religious beliefs of their client because these are related to the delivery of care and influenced the healing outcomes.

Religion and the influence it has on kingship has fascinated scholars in fields such as history and religious studies. Kingship has been influenced by the use of religion for the purpose of legitimizing power, keeping promises to its people, and finding reason for life. Religious influence on kingship seems to be an almost universal concept in human history. The acceptance of religion has changed many kings’ lives, for the better. All throughout history, religion has expressed the answer to our deepest questions that we ask. It has been dedicated to be centrally place in the lives of all civilizations and cultures. Religion had a great influence on how Ashoka, Clovis and Charlemagne ruled their people.

Modern psychology attempts to scientifically explain many aspects of our lives. Yet it seems that when psychology meets religion the result is rarely a fair compromise. As an example, if faced with a person claiming to have no sense of self a psychologist may suspect some form of dissociative disorder. An excellent modern example of spiritualism clashing with psychological diagnoses is that of the much-maligned Aleister Crowley; after years of searching for his own samyaksambodhi he entered into a period of silence and claimed enlightenment – the psychological description of Crowley is that of a paranoid schizophrenic who declined into catatonia. I simply wonder where the line is that divides the religious experience from the psychopathological.

Religion is very important in every once life as our behavior is influenced by the religion we preach. It explains individuals about their duties to themselves as well as to the society the live in and it also describes how people view the world compared to others. Furthermore, religion shows us path to worship God as it establishes our beliefs in having relationship with God. In other words we can say religion gives purpose and a meaning to life. This purpose provides individual with their individuality and sets each individual apart. This definition of relationship gives us a new zeal life and helps us to climb the ladder of salvation to achieve eternal bliss. The ways of achieving this eternal bliss or liberation of soul is different in different religion. However, to understand this process of reaching this bliss full state one needs to understand the religion and moreover compare it to other religions to have a better insight. This knowledge can be obtained by analyzing the scriptures and religious teachings that shows the methods to reach the goal in life. The two religion that seems more relevant studying Indian Sub-continent religions are Brahmanism and Buddhism. In both of the religions the ultimate aim is to achieve liberation however the way to reach may vary. Therefore, to comprehend this one needs to understand the background of the two religions and the similarities and differences between them. Moreover, to deeply understand the impact of this similarities and