RELIGION

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Highlights Public health relevance—how does this work relate to a public health issue? Meaning, spirituality, and religion are related to mental health and recovery from mental illness. Group-based therapies that integrate meaning, spirituality, and religion, such as SPIRIT, can contribute to recovery from mental illness and increase wellbeing and mental health at the population level. Public health significance—why…

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objective study of religion

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Religious studies, also known as religiology or the study of religion, is the study of religion from a historical or scientific perspective. There is no consensus on what qualifies as religion and its definition is highly contested. It describes, compares, interprets, and explains religion, emphasizing empirical, historically based, and cross-cultural perspectives.

Book · DOAB

A number of outstanding public intellectuals such as Jonathan Jansen, Crain Soudien and Lis Lange have been invited to present papers to clarify the conceptual challenge and what this might entail for theology. Well-known theologians such as Conrad Wethmar, Allan Boesak and Martin Prozesky reflect on the nature of theology and religion at universities amidst social exigencies. Two international theologians – Harold …

Full text · Open Library

"In this timely work, Russell, philosopher, agnostic, mathematician, and renowned peace advocate, offers a brief yet insightful study of the conflicts between science and traditional religion during the last four centuries. Examining accounts in which scientific advances clashed with Christian doctrine or biblical interpretations of the day, from Galileo and the Copernican Revolution, to the medical breakthroughs o…

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