Abstract Introduction Sexuality and religion are intricately intertwined. Although is associated with sexual taboos, religious texts among the first most consistent sources to discuss sex, more specifically, dysfunction. Sexual dysfunction has always been widely prevalent, a cause of individual, social, spiritual distress. As sex society continue evolving within frameworks thought practice, it ...

This Essay analyses Islamic law and attempts to apply it to issues surrounding end-of-life care. The author concludes that Islam allows physicians to withdraw life-sustaining technologies if there is no hope for a cure, in the effort to prevent prolonged suffering.

The relationship between medical diseases and cognition has been a point of interest in the last decades. In recent years studies in this field have developed significantly applying various tools such as cognitive tests using psychometric assessments and brain imaging techniques. The main focus of cognitive function in this studies is the process through which this cognition is obtained. It see...

AIM To examine how physicians' life stances affect their attitudes to end-of-life decisions and their actual end-of-life decision-making. METHODS Practising physicians from various specialties involved in the care of dying patients in Belgium, Denmark, The Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and Australia received structured questionnaires on end-of-life care, which included questions about thei...

There are various ways in which science can be classified as theistic or religion-based. One is when the components of scientific theories are accepted by the followers of religions and rejected by the opponents of religious beliefs. Although Quine (1908-2000) does not believe in any religion, the possibility of one concept of religious science can be inferred from his explanation of the founda...

discussing fundamental problems of sexuality and its related respects could help religious scholars to find out a deeper understanding and analysis of islamic teachings. the problem of hijab in the islamic teachings is investigated concerning its various aspects. in this article, the celestial reality of hijab in the structure of the names of allah is analyzed. the approach of this article is i...

BACKGROUND Various rituals have been shown to have both psychologic as well as physical effects. However, many rituals have multiple components that can account for such effects. Few studies have distinguished between the effects of ritual and those related specifically to religious content and teachings. OBJECTIVES The present study investigated the acute effects of the ritual of reciting th...