Inter-Religious Communication, Religious Radicalization and Security Issues

Religious Issues in Counselling

While American psychologists have been making significant contributions regarding the best ways to deal with religious issues in counselling, Australian psychologists have generally been less active in stimulating debate, conducting research, and making clinical applications in this area. In this paper, it is argued that consideration of religious issues is an important aspect of therapy. In fr...

Inter-Religious Relationships and Anxiety in the Regulation of Automatic Inter-Religious Prejudice

Inter-Religious Relationships and Anxiety in the Regulation of Automatic Inter-Religious Prejudice by Karla J. Felix Advisor: Curtis D. Hardin Shared reality theory predicts and evidence suggests that inter-religious relationships are motivated to maintain or regulate interpersonal interactions with others. However, this motivation has been given little attention within the automatic attitude l...

Human Cloning: Religious and Ethical Issues

Dynamics of inter-religious and inter-caste marriages in India

Caste and religion are integral components of Indian society since the time immemorial. These two systems create water tight compartment between communities and bring division, hatred and tension among various social groups. Marriages within the same caste and same religion is the norm of the Indian society. To think of marriages between different castes and different religions is a difficult a...

Metaphor, Religious Language and Religious Experience

Is it possible to talk about God without either misrepresentation or failing to assert anything of significance? The article begins by reviewing how, in attempting to answer this question, traditional theories of religious language have failed to sidestep both potential pitfalls adequately. After arguing that recently developed theories of metaphor seem better able to shed light on the nature o...