Consultation with religious professionals and institutions.

2020 ◽  
pp. 221-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas G. Plante
Keyword(s):  
Religious Professionals

Right Thoughts at the Last Moment

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline I. Stone
Keyword(s):  
Historical Records ◽  
Pure Land ◽  
Ritual Performance ◽  
Medieval Japan ◽  
Religious Professionals ◽  
Devotional Practices ◽  
Evil Person ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Buddha ◽  
The Ideal

Buddhists across Asia have often sought to die, as the Buddha himself is said to have done, with a clear and focused mind. This study explores the reception and development in early medieval Japan (roughly, tenth through fourteenth centuries) of the ideal of “dying with right mindfulness” (rinjū shōnen) and the discourses and practices in which it was embedded. By concentrating one’s thoughts on the Buddha at the moment of death, it was said, even the most evil person could escape the round of deluded rebirth and achieve birth in the Pure Land; conversely, even the slightest mental distraction at that juncture could send the most devout practitioner tumbling down into the evil realms. The ideal of mindful death thus generated both hope and anxiety and created a demand for ritual specialists who could help the dying to negotiate this crucial juncture. Examination of hagiographies, ritual manuals, doctrinal writings, didactic tales, diaries, and historical records uncovers the multiple, sometimes contradictory logics by which medieval Japanese approached death. Deathbed practices also illuminate broader issues in medieval Japanese religion that crossed social levels and sectarian lines, including intellectual developments, devotional practices, pollution concerns, ritual performance, and divisions of labor among religious professionals.

Complementary Alternative Medicine Practices Used by Religious Professionals

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 172-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine R. B. Jankowski ◽  
Nava R. Silton ◽  
Kathleen Galek ◽  
Martin G. Montonye
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Medicine ◽  
Complementary Alternative Medicine ◽  
Religious Professionals

Religious Professionals

2001 ◽  
pp. 449-462
Author(s):  
Harold G. Koenig ◽  
Michael E. McCullough ◽  
David B. Larson
Keyword(s):  
Religious Professionals

Representations of Nizam al-Mulk

2018 ◽  
pp. 61-104
Author(s):  
Neguin Yavari
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
The Social ◽  
Religious Professionals ◽  
The One ◽  
Medieval Historiography

Who was Nizam al-Mulk? In a similar way to ‘Umar II and Charlemagne, Nizam al-Mulk is praised in medieval historiography not just for his political acumen, but also for his knowledge of law, patronage of the clerics, and his ability to stand his ground in religious debate. Nizam al-Mulk crossed the chasm that divided politicians from religious professionals, the one that separated Islamic from Iranian, Sufi from legist, Turk from Persian, Hanafi from Shafi‘i, and sultan from caliph. His uniqueness is reinforced by his enduring legacy, which contrary to current scholarship is shaped not by the Nizamiyya schools, but by his Siyar al-muluk, a guide to good rule written for the Saljuq sultan, Malikshah (r. 1073-1092). This chapter argues that the life of Nizam al-Mulk and its many retellings provide a fulcrum, or an organizing principle, for perceiving the transformation of the social order in medieval Iran.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. Peteet ◽  
Mary Lynn Dell ◽  
Wai Lun Alan Fung
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Clinical Decision Making ◽  
Ethics Committees ◽  
Clinical Decision ◽  
Cultural Formulation ◽  
Statistical Manual ◽  
Diagnostic And Statistical Manual ◽  
Dsm 5 ◽  
Religious Professionals ◽  
The Relationship

Historical tensions between psychiatry and religion continue to hinder dialogue and restrict consensus on how to approach areas of overlap in clinical decision making. In Part One, contributors to this volume discuss concerns arising in the general areas of values, religious and psychiatric ethics, diagnosis and treatment, and the work of religious professionals and ethics committees. In Part Two, chapter authors consider these issues as they arise within various subspecialties of psychiatric practice, often using the Jonsen Four Topics (or Four Quadrants) Model. The theme of the relationship between religion and culture runs throughout and is addressed more directly than in the Outline for Cultural Formulation in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5).

scholarly journals Introduction: Leadership, Authority and Representation in British Muslim Communities

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 559 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Gilliat-Ray ◽  
Riyaz Timol
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Religious Professionals ◽  
Muslim Communities

Since its launch in 2005, the Islam-UK Centre at Cardiff University has initiated a range of projects concerned with issues of leadership, pastoral care, and the training of religious professionals working in British Muslim communities (Gilliat-Ray 2006; Gilliat-Ray 2010; Gilliat-Ray 2011; Ali and Gilliat-Ray 2012; Gilliat-Ray et al [...]

Genres of Faith: God-Talk as Tragedy, Prayer, and Story

1995 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-28
Author(s):  
J. Timothy Allen
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Work ◽  
Religious Professionals

Provides examples of God-talk encountered during pastoral conversations and examines them under the categories of tragedy, prayer, and story. Explores each category in literary, biblical, and pastoral terms. Suggests how religious professionals can use the categories in their pastoral work.

scholarly journals Moral and spiritual aspects in counseling: Recent development in the West

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Abdul Mufid
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Professional Counseling ◽  
The West ◽  
Value System ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Religious Professionals ◽  
The Relationship

<p class="AbstrakAGC"><span lang="NL">This paper aims to explore the moral and spiritual dimensions of counseling. Since professional counseling has developed in the West, the cultural identity and individualistic orientation of identity has entered the counseling profession. Recently a surge of interest in spirituality and religion has been noted with several treatments focused on a new approach to counseling. The new approach shows that spirituality in life is central to individuals, families and communities. Therapists examine the relationship between spirituality and general psychological health. Secular and religious professionals recognize the paradigm shift from illness to health and from individualism to collectivism. Counseling that develops from the premise of such a therapist must be free of value. The emergence of an integrated perspective with religious and spirituality counseling views has resulted in a fundamental conflict with the prevailing professional value system. Counselors still want to avoid the role of a moralist. The controversy also relates to the firmness one wants, the therapist attaching moral and spiritual dimensions while advocating certain values. Psychotherapy, as a moralistic company, requires modification in its training program. Therapists need to change their orientation, namely as scientists with deep moral or spiritual commitment. Clients need and demand reorientation like this. This profession has a claim to respond to the needs of its clients and it cannot ignore the impetus that arises in practice.</span></p>

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