After Christians, Muslims represent the largest religious grouping in the UK. According to census statistics, there are approximately 1.6 million Muslims in the UK, approximately 54% of who were born outside of the UK. There has been emerging interest in the use of traditional healers by South Asians in the UK. Early studies by Aslam3 and Healey & Aslam4 focused upon health seeking behaviour am...

Dedication According to the philosophy of science of Yoga, the quest for Truth is the inherent longing of an individual's mind. The word 'consciousness' in Sanskrit language is known by the terms Purusa or Shiva and is synonymous with such a Truth. What humans through self-reflection refer to as subjectivity or consciousness is actually omnipresent, though most clearly reflected by the human mi...

OBJECTIVE Religiousness is known to be inversely related to alcohol use and problems, but few studies have attempted to identify mediators of this relationship. We examined beliefs about alcohol, social influences, well-being, and motives for drinking as potential mediators of the relationship between religiousness/spirituality and alcohol use and problems. METHOD Participants were 315 female...

eligious globalization, new religious movements, transnational religions, global proselytism, multiple religious identities, ecumenical services, rel igious syncretism, secular and postsecular spiritualities—all these are among the many remarkable trends that shape the religious landscape of the beginning of the twenty-first century. Despite the rampant materialism still dominant in an increasi...

Background: Nurses are among the individuals who are under various forms of stress and physical and psychological harm due to the nature of their occupation. Objectives: The present study aimed to investigate the mediating role of self-compassion in the relationship between spiritual intelligence and hope in female nurses. Methods: The method of the current research was descriptive-correlatio...

The limits of Henriques' "overarching conceptions" approach to defining psychology is first tested by comparing and contrasting his conceptions to two burgeoning movements within psychology: qualitative research and spiritual therapy strategies. These movements were selected because they represent many other fragments of a fragmented psychology that could fall outside Henriques' disciplinary ma...