BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE This study assessed public awareness of warning symptoms, risk factors, and treatment of stroke in Ludhiana, Punjab, North West India. METHODS A hospital-based survey was conducted between February 2002 and September 2002 by the Stroke section of Christian Medical College. The study subjects were relatives of patients without history of stroke, attending the outpatient ...

Religion and spirituality are contested terms in the fields of Religious Studies, Theology, Sociology or Anthropology Religion, other areas, notion faith has often been abandoned altogether. The present article attempts to make a distinctly philosophical contribution this debate by employing phenomenological parameters, as they articulated work Martin Heidegger, for proposing distinctions betwe...

happiness holds a central position in farabi and aquinas theory of  ethics and politics. both of these philosophers are considered aristotle-oriented and peripatetic. while both regard god’s countenance as real happiness, their methods to reach this goal are separated in a stage and a place. recognizing the insufficiency of intellect,aquinas affirms the necessity of faith and other theological ...

The recent deaths of two children from parental decisions to rely on faith healing rather than medical treatment raises fundamental questions about the extent and limits of religious liberty in a liberal democratic society. This essay seeks to identify and critically examine three central issues internal to the ethics of religious communities that engage in faith healing regarding children: (1)...

The issue of relation, particularly that of human relation to God stands for one of the most significant concerns by all men of faith. To realize such a relation Martin Buber and Rumi, two globally acclaimed thinkers, have appropriated independent existences for both God and man to make them eligible for having a relation to each other, and they have brought this relationship to the fore in the...

This article analyzes Christian, Muslim, and Hindu-based discourses practices in relation to sufficiency, materialism, the good life context of European Union. The current political scholarly debate emphasizes need for a sustainability transformation and, more specifically, reductions resource use by global consumer class. Within this discussion, different approaches interpretations various fac...

the respected author believes that true faith is actually a logical assertion of faith [within] or entrenched certainty towards the objects of faith. naturally this logical assertion can only be considered as faith while it doesn’t accompany denial of the objects of faith. he believes that the freedom to choose faith is related to the freedom to choose when faith first comes about and whether i...