Fasting is one of the religious practices or rituals worship that can be found in almost every tradition, including Christian and Islamic traditions. Several scholars studies, through various research, claim fasting has been practiced thousands years ago by adherents world persists to this day. This study attempts describe teachings Christianity Islam then provides an analysis similarities diff...

Without Christianity, the world would be a better place. So says a growing body of scholarship on the effects of religion on physical and mental health. The central claim is that Christian belief and practices are neutral or positively bad for your health, and that studies to the contrary are badly flawed, “weak,” or inconsistent with other studies and, hence, can be ignored. In one recent arti...

Church music is an essential part of Christian worship. The primary source to create commonly from the Bible, tradition, and believers' experience. Yet, in church Protestant Moluccas (GPM), there harmony between some elements such as ethnicity, theology, music. In local cultural tradition derived old religion, which Christianity contextualizes. Using a descriptive qualitative research method, a...

The Enlightenment project took root in the modern West. It was not a natural outgrowth of Christianity but, rather, repudiation its sacred tenets. Prior to gradual secular trajectory West, Christian tradition shared common metaphysical understanding reality with other spiritual traditions world. is this epistemology that provides unitive human being and psychology or “science soul” integrally c...

American Indians exhibit suicide-related behaviors at rates much higher than the general population. This study examines the relation of spirituality to the lifetime prevalence of attempted suicide in a probability sample of American Indians. Data were derived from a cross-sectional sample of 1456 American Indian tribal members (age range 15-57yr) who were living on or near their Northern Plain...

The article considers the Bible as most thorough and basic source for studying concept of femininity in religious tradition Christianity. According to many feminist researchers, it is that makes possible trace ontological status women Christian understand specifics views on masculine feminine. opinion proved thanks analysis biblical figures, identify necessary models human behavior (A. Milano),...

This scientific paper deals with religious Orthodox holidays and their significance within Serbian culture. The facts that celebration of has been very widespread in recent years they have receiving extensive media coverage are indicative considerable social importance topicality. Religious an inalienable part the national heritage, UNESCO even declared slavas to be global immaterial cultural h...