spiritual and the physical. The physical body is deemed complete once it is given that functional purpose by the spiritual aspects of religion.
However, the flip side to it is that the same religion can be and has been a source of conflicts within the society. From the centuries old religious records like the Holy Bible, Holy Quran among many others, there are incidences where religious instigated conflicts and wars have been experienced. These have been as direct command from the supreme beings, religious leaders or the gods that have existed depending on the religions. In the recent history, religion has seen the rise of mass campaigns to murder people… Continue Reading...
a counselor seeking to specialize in a work area that incorporates aspects of religion into the fundamentals of counseling. It is similar to a chef who has an understanding of a variety of menus and meals and how to prepare them applying for job as a opposed to a chef who has only practiced preparing one menu item over a course of four years applying for the same job. The chef who shows greater breadth within the type of cuisine that he is expected to produce will be the one who is more attractive to the employer. As McKinney (1991) shows,… Continue Reading...
aspects of religion but which is actually “the rule of thoughts” (Marx). Again, some of these thoughts involve religion, yet others decidedly do not.
Since Durkheim only writes about the effects of religion, its origin, and how its pretexts actually affect society, there is more insight in his works about religion’s place in the U.S. today. Specifically, Durkheim seeks to detail how religion “has as its object the explanation of some actual reality which is near to us, and which consequently is capable of affecting our ideas and our acts”… Continue Reading...
