CultNEWS101 Articles: 6/24/2024
Patrick Ryan
"Sat Yoga is an ashram and school in Costa--Rica dedicated to raising human consciousness, healing and Self-realization. A beautiful vision for a beautiful garden of eden at the top of a tropical mountain.
This website offers a different perspective on the nature of this organisation and a voice for the numerous past members of the cult who have had a personal relationship with Shunyamurti (aka Robert Shubow)"
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Session Abstract: Religious disaffiliation, leaving a religious community, may lead to a life crisis that is difficult to endure. The results of my dissertation show that clients in this life situation do not receive the support and understanding within health care, which they would need. Also, health care professionals express a need for more education on religious disaffiliation and other related topics. The results of our studies show that both general knowledge about religiosity and spirituality as well as more specific knowledge about religious disaffiliation are needed within health care. Training and education of health care professionals is essential, as knowledge and information increase understanding and competence. Training could involve the following topics: the impact of religious disaffiliation on clients’ lives and mental health, clients with different religious backgrounds and affiliations in health care and information on how to bring up and deal with religious questions. These topics should be included in the basic education of health care professionals, as well as in continuing education. Training and education are needed to decrease the fear to discuss religious matters that some health care professionals may have. There is also a need for health care professionals who are specialized in religious and spiritual subjects and have special competence when it comes to clients who experience challenges because of their religion or religious affiliation. In order to promote clients’ mental health and recovery, further research is needed on recommendations and practical tools that healthcare professionals can use in their work with clients in this context.
Open Culture: World Religions Explained with Useful Charts: Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, Christianity & More
"It doesn’t take an expert in the field to know that, around the world, there is much disagreement on the subject of religion. But as explained in the UsefulCharts video above by Matt Baker, whose PhD in Religious Studies makes him an expert in the field, every source does agree on the fact that the four largest religions in the world are Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. “These are the undisputed ‘big four,’ ” Baker says, and they’ve thus been the subjects of the various videos and charts he’s made explaining their histories and characteristics. But in his area of expertise, he adds, “it is often said that there are five major world religions.”
The fifth major religion, as you may have already guessed, is Judaism, though its sixteen million adherents don’t enter the same numerical league as the world’s 1.9 billion Muslims or 2.4 billion Christians. The Jewish faith punches well above its weight in respects like its age, and it's being “the parent religion to both Christianity and Islam.” Coming in at 400 million believers is a religion, or category of religions, that to many readers may seem much less familiar than Judaism: Chinese folk religion, or as Baker calls it, “Chinese Syncretism,” referring to its mixture of different ideas and traditions.
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