Background and Objectives: A developing body of evidence has demonstrated the detrimental effects of spirituality and religion on the well-being of patients with cancer. This necessitates the need to explore the content of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V (code 62.89). The present study aimed to identify the spiritual problems of Iranian patients with breast canc...

conclusions it is suggested to consider practical programs to maintain religious believes in students. materials and methods this was a descriptive analytic study. study population was 370 students selected by census sampling from all students of this faculty. gathering data tools were religious attitude questionnaire (golriz and brahani 1974) and life orientation test questionnaire (lot-r). re...

the writer introduces allamah tabatabaee as consenting to the scientific interpretation, and considers the difference of allamah's scientific interpretation with others, in that allamah does not directly make use of science in underestanding and interpreting the verses but first he interprets the verses with the help of other verses, and then take adventage of scientific interpretation, an...

in the study of human, the difference between man and woman in nature and creation has been an area of interest for researchers the analysis of which has come upon man and woman’s unity as one human. in the face of that the analysis has also brought to light the incongruity of their function as two distinct creatures. in addition to religious contexts and natural differences, psychology and sci...

The papers in this issue arose from a conference on the Psychological and Cognitive Foundations of Religiosity that took place at Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) in August, 2003. 1 This conference brought together scholars from ten nations and six disciplines (psychology, anthropology, religious studies, biology, philosophy, and cognitive science) to explore new developments at the interfac...

This study explores the therapeutic implications of including culturally adapted spiritual ceremonies in the process of testimonial therapy for torture survivors in India, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, and the Philippines. Data were collected through an action research process with Asian mental health and human rights organizations, during which the testimonial method was reconceptualized and modified t...