Religious Resources

Author : Harold G Koenig
Publisher : Templeton Foundation Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781599470788

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Faith and Mental Health by Harold G Koenig Pdf

Dr. Harold Koenig opens a window on mental health, providing an unprecedented source of practical information about the relationship between religion and mental health. He examines how Christianity and other world religions deliver mental health services today, and he makes recommendations, based on research, expertise, and experience, for new programs to meet local needs. Meticulously researched and documented, Faith and Mental Health includes Research on the relationship between religion and positive emotions, psychiatric illnesses, and severe and persistent mental disorders Ways in which religion has influenced mental health historically, and how now and in the future it can be involved with mental health A comprehensive description and categorization of Christian and non-Christian faith-based organizations that provide mental health resources Resources for religious professionals and faith communities on how to design effective programs Presenting a combination of the history and current research of mental health and religion along with a thorough examination of faith-based organizations operating in the field, this book is a one-of-a-kind resource for the healthcare community; its valuable research and insights will benefit medical and religious professionals, and anyone concerned with the future of mental health care.

Author : Presbyterian Church in Canada
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 101331235X

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The Presbyterian Book of Praise [microform] by Presbyterian Church in Canada Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Cassandra Vieten,Shelley Scammell
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781626251076

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Spiritual and Religious Competencies in Clinical Practice by Cassandra Vieten,Shelley Scammell Pdf

Spirituality lies at the heart of many clients' core values, and helps shape their perception of themselves and the world around them. In this book, two clinical psychologists provide a much-needed, research-based road map to help professionals appropriately address their clients’ spiritual or religious beliefs in treatment sessions. More and more, it has become essential for mental health professionals to understand and competently navigate clients' religious and spiritual beliefs in treatment. In Spiritual and Religious Competencies in Clinical Practice, you’ll find sixteen research-based guidelines and best practices to help you provide effective therapy while being conscious of your clients' unique spiritual or cultural background. With this professional resource as your guide, you will be prepared to: Take a spiritual and religious history when treating a client Attend to spiritual or religious topics in a clinical setting Hold clear ethical boundaries regarding your own religious or spiritual beliefs Know when and how to make referrals if topics emerge which are beyond the scope of your competence This book is a must-read for any mental health professional looking to develop spiritual, religious, and cultural competencies.

Author : John Keast,Council of Europe
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9287162239

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Religious Diversity and Intercultural Education by John Keast,Council of Europe Pdf

This reference book is intended to help teachers, teacher administrators, policy makers and others deal with the important issue of religious diversity in Europe's schools. The religious dimension of intercultural education is an issue that affects all schools, whether they are religiously diverse or not, because their pupils live and will work in increasingly diverse societies. The book is the main outcome of the project 1The Challenge of intercultural education today: religious diversity and dialogue in Europe', developed by the Council of Europe between 2002 and 2005. It is in four parts: theoretical and conceptual basis for religious diversity and intercultural education; educational conditions and methodological approaches; religious diversity in schools in different settings; examples of current practice in some member states of the Council of Europe.

Author : Phan, Peter C.
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608336906

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The Joy of Religious Pluralism by Phan, Peter C. Pdf

Author : Connie R. Green,Sandra Brenneman Oldendorf
Publisher : IAP
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781617353987

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Religious Diversity and Children's Literature by Connie R. Green,Sandra Brenneman Oldendorf Pdf

This book is an invaluable resource for enabling teachers, religious educators, and families to learn about religious diversity themselves and to teach children about both their own religion as well as the beliefs of others. The traditions featured include indigenous beliefs throughout the world, Native American spirituality, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity (Orthodoxy, Catholicism and Protestantism), Islam, Sikhism, and other beliefs such as Bahá'í, Unitarian Universalism, Humanism, and Atheism. Each chapter highlights a specific religion or spiritual tradition with a brief discussion about major beliefs, misconceptions, sacred texts, and holy days or celebrations. This summary of each tradition is followed by extensive annotated recommendations for children’s and adolescent literature as well as suggested teaching strategies. The recommended literature includes informational books, traditional religious stories, and fiction with religious themes. Teachers, religious educators, and family members will find the literature from these genres to be invaluable tools for bridging the religious experience of the child with that of the global society in which they live.

Author : Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 825 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781799834366

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Research Anthology on Religious Impacts on Society by Management Association, Information Resources Pdf

Religion is considered by many to be something of the past, but it has a lasting hold in society and influences people across many cultures. This integration of spirituality causes numerous impacts across various aspects of modern life. The variety of religious institutions in modern society necessitates a focus on diversity and inclusiveness in the interactions between organizations of different religions, cultures, and viewpoints. Research Anthology on Religious Impacts on Society examines the cultural, sociological, economic, and philosophical effects of religion on modern society and human behavior. Highlighting a range of topics such as religious values, social reforms, and spirituality, this publication is an ideal reference source for religious officials, church leaders, psychologists, sociologists, professionals, researchers, academicians, and students.

Author : Elaine McCreery,Sandra Palmer,Veronica Voiels
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780857252524

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Teaching Religious Education by Elaine McCreery,Sandra Palmer,Veronica Voiels Pdf

Many trainee primary teachers are uncertain as to the place and purpose of RE in primary schools. This book is designed to alleviate such fears and give trainees the security and confidence to teach RE effectively. Trainees are encouraged to recognise their own religious position and understand how they handle their own beliefs and commitments in the classroom. In addition, they will learn how to be sensitive to children's religious viewpoints, allowing children to share their beliefs in a secure and supportive environment. A range of strategies help readers to provide engaging and appropriate RE across the primary age phase.

Author : Dennis R. Hoover
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000812428

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Exploring Religious Diversity and Covenantal Pluralism in Asia by Dennis R. Hoover Pdf

This book examines the growing diversity of religions and worldviews across East & Southeast Asia, and the factors affecting prospects for 'covenantal pluralism' in these regions. According to the Pew Religious Diversity Index, half of the world’s most religiously diverse countries are in Asia. The presence of deep religious/worldview difference is often seen as a potential threat to socio-political cohesion or even as a source of violent conflict. Yet in Asia (as elsewhere) the degree of this diversity is not consistently associated with socio-political problems. Indeed, while religious difference is implicated in some social challenges, there are also many instances of respectful multi-faith engagement, practical collaboration, and peaceful debate. Whether or not religious/worldview difference is part of a positive pluralism depends on a complex array of legal and cultural conditions. This book explores these dynamics and contingencies in Asia, structuring the inquiry according to the theory of 'covenantal pluralism'. Covenantal pluralist theory calls for (a) a constitutional order characterized by freedom of religion/conscience and equality of rights and responsibilities, combined with (b) a culture of practical religious literacy and virtues of mutual respect and protection. Volume I offers a pioneering exploration of the prospects for this robust and non-relativistic type of pluralism in East & Southeast Asia. (Volume II examines South & Central Asia.) The chapters in these volumes originally appeared as research articles in a series on covenantal pluralism published by The Review of Faith & International Affairs.

Author : Mark Killian
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498546614

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Religious Vitality in Christian Intentional Communities by Mark Killian Pdf

Through ethnographic research, Killian examines vitality in Philadelphia and Berea, two Christian Intentional Communities whose participants live in close proximity with one another to achieve religious values. Pulling from Anthony Giddens’ theory of structuration, Killian argues that the vitality of both communities cannot be reduced to deterministic structural, individual, or organizational causes. Rather, vitality in these communities is affected by all of these causes in relationship to one another. In other words, it’s not that each explanation “matters” (e.g., social structures matter, organizational behaviors matter, individual religious choices matter), but that these explanations matter to each other (e.g., social structures matter to individual choices, individual choices matter to organizational behaviors, and social structures matter to organizational choices, etc.). To make this argument, Killian develops the idea of the vitality nexus—the interconnected relationship between the various explanations of religious vitality.

Author : Catherine Cornille
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781118529942

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The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Inter-Religious Dialogue by Catherine Cornille Pdf

This comprehensive volume brings together a distinguished editorial team, including some of the field’s pioneers, to explore the aims, practice, and historical context of interfaith collaboration. Explores in full the background, history, objectives, and discourse between the leaders and practitioners of the world’s major religions Examines relations between religions from around the world, moving well beyond the common focus on Christianity, to also cover over 12 major religions Features a wealth of case studies on contemporary interreligious dialogue Charts a long-term shift away from a competitive rivalry between belief systems, and a change in focus towards the more respectful, cooperative approach reflected in institutions such as the World Council of Churches Includes up-to-date commentary on the growing dialogue of recent years, written by some of the leading figures working in the field of interfaith discourse

Author : Fritz Heinrich,Cornelia Schlarb,Egbert Schlarb,Ulrike Schröder
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Göttingen
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783863955007

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Dialogues and Dynamics – Interculturality in Theology and Religious Studies by Fritz Heinrich,Cornelia Schlarb,Egbert Schlarb,Ulrike Schröder Pdf

This volume contains the texts from the symposium on the occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the M.A. Programme Intercultural Theology. The contributions address the challenges and consequences of an intercultural approach in academics as well as in the churches and in society. Since globalisation has significantly changed the face of contemporary Christianity in the 21st century, the task of doing theology has become more complex. The cultural, geographic and denominational varieties of Christianity worldwide challenge the traditional Western face of academic Christian theology and demand new and global forms of theological thinking across lines. Intercultural Theology seeks to embrace these dynamics with a constructive dialogue, opening up new spaces of collaborative thinking and academic reflection.

Author : Jan-Olav Henriksen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004412347

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Religious Pluralism and Pragmatist Theology by Jan-Olav Henriksen Pdf

Inspired by pragmatism, this book addresses religious plurality with the aim of bringing forth how it may be approached constructively by Christian theology. Accordingly, not doctrine, but practices are focussed in its analyses of interreligious topics. Henriksen argues that engagement with the diversity of religious traditions should be grounded in openness towards the other, and resistance against making others similar to oneself. Accordingly, the book presents a theological approach where interaction between religious practitioners is considered a benefit and a necessity for the positive future of religious traditions. It will be of interest to anyone who is interested in the understanding of religious pluralism from the point of view of Christian theology.

Author : Shakil Choudhury
Publisher : Between the Lines(CA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Prejudices
ISBN : 1771130253

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Deep Diversity by Shakil Choudhury Pdf

"What if our interactions with those different from us are strongly influenced by things happening below the radar of awareness, hidden even from ourselves? Deep Diversity explores this question and argues that "us vs. them" is an unfortunate but normal part of the human experience due to reasons of both nature and nurture"--Publisher description.

Author : Kath Engebretson,Marian de Souza,Gloria Durka,Liam Gearon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1175 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781402092602

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International Handbook of Inter-religious Education by Kath Engebretson,Marian de Souza,Gloria Durka,Liam Gearon Pdf

This Handbook is based on the conviction of its editors and contributing authors that understanding and acceptance of, as well as collaboration between religions has essential educational value. The development of this Handbook rests on the f- ther assumption that interreligious education has an important role in elucidating the global demand for human rights, justice, and peace. Interreligious education reveals that the creeds and holy books of the world’s religions teach about sp- itual systems that reject violence and the individualistic pursuit of economic and political gain, and call their followers to compassion for every human being. It also seeks to lead students to an awareness that the followers of religions across the world need to be, and to grow in, dialogical relationships of respect and understa- ing. An essential aim of interreligious education is the promotion of understanding and engagement between people of different religions and, therefore, it has great potential to contribute to the common good of the global community. Interreligious education has grown from the interfaith movement, whose beg- ning is usually identi?ed with the World Parliament of Religions held in Chicago in 1893. This was the ?rst time in history that leaders of the eastern and we- ern religions had come together for dialogue, and to consider working together for global unity.