Often religion and spirituality are used interchangeably. Spirituality may or may not include religion, which is related to an organized institution. Spirituality on the other hand is the transcendent relationship between the person and a higher being, a quality that goes beyond a specific religious application (Peterson & Nelson 1989). Both religion and spirituality offer a sense of meaning an...

A mutation is often thought of in negative terms, that is, as a damaged or altered gene that can no longer fulfil its purpose as intended. However if we reverse our view and consider the whole as the vehicle that is incapable of fulfilling its purpose then the mutation becomes a new possibility. For the purposes of this paper, religion in its traditional sense will be considered as the „faulty ...

In this presentation, I delineate fi ve refi nements that I and my associates have introduced during the last decade to the literature on religion and spirituality from an attachment-theory perspective. First, I describe the principle of social correspondence as an addition to the idea that religiousness refl ects generalizing working models of attachment. Second, I focus on what we have learne...

abraham maslow has been considered as a theorician and spiritual leader of humanistic psychology school. although several researchers have studied abraham maslow's ideas, but separate researches on position of spirituality & peak experiences in maslow´s psychology has not been done. apparently his thoughts in the field, has not been studied seriously. the authors of this article have tried...

Recent proposals to join spirituality and medicine are facile and ill defined. The notion that physicians have the time or training to make assessments and recommendations about spirituality is misguided. Whenever a physician demonstrates personal caring for a patient, the healing process is likely enhanced, and in that sense, physicians often promote the spirituality of the patient. However, r...

Mental health professionals frequently express concerns about the role of spirituality or religion in the lives of people diagnosed with severe mental illness—including schizophrenia, major depression, bipolar and schizoaffective disorders. These concerns flow from a number of sources: the not infrequent religious content of delusions and hallucinations; a sense that the metaphoric nature of sp...

organizational spirituality is a new paradigm that has emerged in organizational behavior district and finds very advocates. spirituality in workplace is referred to an individual attempts for seeking purpose in working life, sense of solidarity with coworkers and alignment with organization's mission and values. spirituality could involve religion viewpoint or not, however, historically i...

OBJECTIVE This study compared the ways in which psychiatrists and nonpsychiatrists interpret the relationship between religion/spirituality and health and address religion/spirituality issues in the clinical encounter. METHOD The authors mailed a survey to a stratified random sample of 2,000 practicing U.S. physicians, with an oversampling of psychiatrists. The authors asked the physicians ab...

Recent evidence indicates that spirituality and religion are associated with both physical and psychological health. Because a belief that rewards are largely determined by external forces tends to be detrimental to mental health, the idea that God can be equated with such an external force seems contradictory to the proven benefits of religion and spirituality. The purpose of this article is t...

Recent surveys continue to show the importance of spirituality in the lives of most people in the United States (Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion, 2006), particularly when the term is distinguished from religion to emphasize the personal experience of the sacred (Zinnbauer et al., 1997). A recent national survey found that the majority of college students see spirituality as an importan...