High-level cognitive and emotional experience arises from brain activity, but the specific brain substrates for religious and spiritual euphoria remain unclear. We demonstrate using functional magnetic resonance imaging scans in 19 devout Mormons that a recognizable feeling central to their devotional practice was reproducibly associated with activation in nucleus accumbens, ventromedial prefro...

Among the Victorian writers, George Eliot deserves to be a unique one. Her male pseudonym, the impugnation of Christianity as well as her nonconformist marriage achieve this stellar female novelist in British literature. Ironically, Eliot was exactly famous for describing social religion and morality of the day. Eliot’s attitude toward Christianity is dichotomous: though deeply influenced by Ch...

Explicit self-representations often conflict with implicit and intuitive self-representations, with such discrepancies being seen as a source of psychological tension. Most of previous research on the psychological effects of mindfulness-meditation has assessed people's self-attitudes at an explicit level, leaving unknown whether mindfulness-meditation promotes changes on implicit self-represen...

spiritual beliefs can help people find meaning of life, and can also influence their feelings, behaviors and mental health. the present research studied the relationship between basic religious beliefs (human, existence and god) and five personality factors: neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, conscientiousness.one hundred seventy eight students of islamic azad university in tor...

Abstract The ECtHR’s ruling in ES v Austria raises questions about the Court’s methodology blasphemy cases. ECtHR interprets Article 9 of Convention as including a right to respect for religious feelings and presumes that ‘justified indignation’ may disrupt ‘religious peace’. Therefore, expression counting ‘gratuitously offensive’ is not granted protection under 10. es reveals certain problems ...

BACKGROUND In the organ transplant process, the perioperative nurse plays an important role in assisting with organ procurement, during which they are frequently required to witness the death of donors. Their experiences and feelings regarding such are largely hidden and little discussed. PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to understand the experience, feelings, and self-care strategies of...