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Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature & Culture. "What are the relationships among human beings and what are variously understood by the terms religion, nature, and culture? And, What constitutes ethically appropriate relationships between our own species and the places, including the entire biosphere, which we inhabit? " These are the sorts of questions that gave rise to the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, which began publishing in March 2007. If these questions drive your curiosity, Equinox Press, the editors of the JSRNC (the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture) and members of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, which has affiliated with the JSRNC, invite you to this inquiry. Journal History This recognition led to a number of conversations, also beginning in the late 1990s, about scholarly publications currently available exploring the religion/nature/culture nexus.

Please feel free to write to the editors with your ideas for this exciting journal. The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion. Transdisciplinarity and interdisciplinary study of science and r. The BioLogos Forum. Thomas B. Fowler: "Reductionism, Naturalism, and Nominalism: the. Metanexus: Transdisciplinarity and the Unity of Knowledge on Vim.

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Personal World View Validations. WorldView Claims Invalidated supernatural. ISLAM. The clash of the evangelists christian islam mormon and even ath. The clash of the Evangelists: Christian, Islam, Mormon, and even Atheist? It is interesting how people will complain when they see a Christian tract, or any small hand bill, that has a Christian message in it, laying around in a coffeehouse, restaurant, bus stop, or other random places. Even more people start complaining when they see a Christian sitting down with a 'non-Christian' sharing their faith.

I recently took two days and asked 40 people (20 on Wednesday, and 20 on Friday) four questions: 1. When you see a Christian, or any other faith, sharing their beliefs in public with others, how does that make you feel? 2. 3. 4. It was very interesting to hear that most of the people I talked to had strong negative feelings to-wards Christians sharing their faith. "Let's face it: Atheism is in," Stan Guthrie wrote in Tuesday's column in Christianity Today magazine. Why? "We don't want the public square to be dominated by the atheists," said New York Times bestselling author Dinesh D'Souza. Metanexus: Transdisciplinarity and the Unity of Knowledge on Vim.

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Christian origins. Cults! Athiest Critical Thinking Logic Reason. Happiness REsearch. Buddhism. Buddhist Deity Meditation Temporarily Augments Visuospatial Abil. Meditation has been practiced for centuries, as a way to calm the soul and bring about inner peace. According to a new study in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, there is now evidence that a specific method of meditation may temporarily boost our visuospatial abilities (for example, the ability to retain an image in visual memory for a long time). That is, the meditation allows practitioners to access a heightened state of visual-spatial awareness that lasts for a limited period of time.

Normally when we see something, it is kept in our visual short-term memory for only a brief amount of time (images will begin to fade in a matter of seconds). However, there have been reports of Buddhist monks who have exceptional imagery skills and are able to maintain complex images in their visual short-term memory for minutes, and sometimes even hours. The researchers focused on two styles of meditation: Deity Yoga (DY) and Open Presence (OP).