The preference for
spirituality over religion can also be an expression of the consumer society and its individualism.
Not exact matches
Most of the North American Indian tribes and their
spirituality /
religions are well
over 5000 years old, with understanding of God just as solid as that of the Roman Catholic Church.
Somewhere in the widespread preference for «
spirituality»
over «
religion» there is a revulsion toward «God.»
NOT sorry to disapoint you but MY
religion or
spirituality is NONE of your business and suits me just fine, makes me a better person, more accepting of others, more kind to my fellow earthbound souls, more respectful to mankind and morther earth than all
religions combined who unfortunately have
over 2ooo years of evidence of horrors committed against each other ALL in the name of the religous organizations you want me to join??? I think I will stick with my smorgasborg of this and that
spirituality.
For example, a curriculum that seems to privilege courses having to do with religious experience, worship,
spirituality, counseling, and the like
over, say, systematic and philosophical theology may reveal a commitment to the assumption that God is understood effectively rather than discursively; while a curriculum relatively more rich in offerings in ethics, sociology of
religion, liberation theology, and the like than in offerings in historical theology, patristics, liturgics, and mystical traditions may reveal a commitment to the view that God is better understood in action than in contemplation.
Future research should focus on how relationships between religious or spiritual involvement and health change
over time, and whether support services designed to enhance particular aspects of
religion and
spirituality in interested patients might help improve their well - being.
Over the past several years, though, I'd opened myself up to learning about different
religions and exploring my own
spirituality, so I decided to give it a shot and schedule an appointment with the healer my friend had recommended.
An example of using my judgment about also - bought authors: «The Awful Mess: A Love Story» crosses
over into
religion and
spirituality, specifically, into progressive Christianity.