Abrahamic religions

how it relates to their identity, how it shapes them and how to balance work, life, and religion. Work is a means of self-expression. Most studies of work focus exclusively of the work commitment, work involvement and work as a central life interest. ( Davidson, J. (2011, April 15). Religion influences the way people think of work. Essentially work is a calling. (Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (Impact Factor:…

Do you pray within counseling sessions? There comes much discernment in dialoguing through spiritual elements within counseling. There must exist the ability to read the client holistically and be open to opportunities that grant time for prayer, and or spiritual / religious dialogue. While in session, assumed prayer may not always be beneficial. Rather, listening for opportunities for prayer, and narrating that thought process may be a more beneficial path? Perhaps the client was sexually…

For many years the argument of whether religion should be allowed in schools has been debated over what was “politically correct” according to the US Constitution. Since the writing of this document, the separation of church and state has driven a fine line as to what is constitutional and what is not. Public education has created the controversy to become more of an issue due to the fact that public schools are federally funded. The principle that religion should not be allowed in educational…

Intentional Prayer This semester and the last several years I have been intentionally praying for my great Aunt Colleen. She has many health issues including arthritis, kidney failure, obesity, and many others. My family has constantly been praying for her to be able to live a long time and be healthy. In the last few years she has been able to maintain a relatively normal lifestyle because of dialysis and water aerobics. She has always been directly involved in my life. She never married or had…

Religion and relationships between Gods and mortals in Archaic Greece is often a central focus to scholars studying the period. This is due to the popularity surrounding early Greek poetry through the extraordinary images of iconic Greek Gods and Goddesses, and how these figures are dominant in the lives of Greek people during the Archaic period. In terms of early Greek poetry, Homer’s Odyssey and the Iliad, along with Hesiod’s Theogony tend to be the most popular and useful in studying both the…

parents did not raise me with religion. I never really fit in with the Lutheran churches in the area, and I knew that I didn 't believe in God. Although all of my friends were lutheran, and I would often go to church with them and was close with many of the pastors in the area, I never really found my place in the church. When I was about 12 or 13 I watched a movie called The Craft, which is a movie about witchcraft, hence the name. It sounds weird that I found my religion through…

” It shows how a young girl is treated unequally amongst her classmates. It addresses the religious issues of a young girl versus her school. The difficulties she goes through as her school administration will not change a rule for her due to her religion. She holds the secretary position of a leadership club and the rule is that they must attend all school events. Her father will not let her attend the school dances because he believes this is against their religious beliefs. The girl must…

Or even know what religion truly is? By definition, religion may be defined as: “the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods” (Oxford Dictionaries). In today’s world, there are 4,200 different religions that people identify as. Most people have never heard of more than half of those religions. Christianity is the most heard of religion in the world, and up till now, has dominated other religions in having the most followers, or the…

freedom to our scientific technologies. Think of it this way, imagine that there two personalities to our world; a personality that reflects our true selves and what we are made out of, and a fake self. Because our world is divided into groups and religions and many known and unknown sects we don’t know the true…

consist of aspects from different religions around the area. They merge shamanic rituals with Roman Catholicism, prosperity theology, and charismatic Christianity. Brother Mike and El Shaddai are publicly connected to Roman Catholicism, but El Shaddai is not strictly a Catholic religion. El Shaddai is the start of a whole new type of religion that draws things from several different religions and combines them all into one. The integration of different religions into one can bring people…