Mancuso, 2010). With this in mind, healthcare providers and institutions need to be cognizant of various faiths and spiritual practices to allow for healing of an individual stricken with disease or illness. In looking at Native American, Muslim, and Buddhism faiths the intent is to identify what rituals, practices, and philosophies are important to each domain with respect to healing and modern medicine. Native American I chose Native American because of having Cherokee descendants on my mother’s side
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to provide them with holistically appropriate care (Griffith, 2009). The purpose of this paper is to discuss three types of faiths, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islamic, as compare and contrast with Christianity, what their perspectives and components are on healing, and healthcare implications when providing care. Perspectives and Components on Healing Buddhism Buddhism originated from Asia. This is a philosophy based on Buddha’s life, “The Enlightened One” (SDH, n. d.). Buddha taught us that suffering
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is comprised of Eastern and Western philosophy based on where the philosopher came from. The philosophers of the East are part of three different groups; Buddhism and Hinduism in India; Zen Buddhism and the Samurai tradition in Japan; and Taoism, Confucianism, and Ch’an Buddhism in China. Western philosophy is broken down more by Christianity, rationale, and scientific theories (Moore & Bruder, 2008). Western philosophy is more about the here and now and the more about the me concept while the
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Running Head: HEALTHCARE AND THREE DISTINCT BELIEFS Diversity in Beliefs Each culture has its own beliefs regarding healing, health, faith, treatment, health care providers, and disease. Everyone's practices and beliefs are brought into the health care system, so it is important as nurses to respect each patient's faith and beliefs. It is hard as health care professionals who have been taught Western medicine to understand other beliefs, but it is important to remember as nurses the goal
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things you never talk about around the dinner table are religion and politics”. I came into this class very closed-minded, thinking that the only religion that is “true” and makes the most sense is Christianity. However, after closely studying and learning the concepts of Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, and Chinese religions I began to question myself. How can one say that there is only one true religion and the rest are false? And who gets to determine which one is true? Whether one
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out of 0.2 points | | | What did the khans of the Golden Horde promote? | | | | | Selected Answer: | C. A centralized government under their firm control | Answers: | A. A rejection of pastoral nomadism | | B. The expansion of Christianity into Asia | | C. A
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CHAPTER 2 FACTORS AFFECTING FOODWAYS AND CULINARY PRACTICES INTRODUCTION Food culture is multi-faceted, influenced by a number of factors, of which the main ones are presented and briefly explained in this chapter. Examples are given for better understanding and appreciation of how a factor could affect the foodways of a population group or area. One factor may have more impact on bringing about changes than other factors. Each has varying degrees and extent of influences that makes cultural
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THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS AND RADICALISM Dr. M. LAL GOEL Also known as Dr. Madan Lal Goel University of West Florida lgoel@uwf.edu Abstract. The notion of a clash of civilizations has gained notoriety since the terrorist attack on WTC on 9/11/2001. Professor Samuel P. Huntington has popularized the view that the coming global conflict will be among major civilizations, not among different political ideologies. He identifies eight major civilizations: the Western (Europe and North America)
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the list below. • Religious groups (based on http://religions.pewforum.org/pdf/affiliations-all-traditions.pdf) o Christianity • Evangelical Protestant • Mainline Protestant • Historically Black Churches • Roman Catholic • Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) • Jehovah’s Witnesses • Orthodox (Greek, Eastern) o Judaism (Orthodox, Conservative, or Reform) o Buddhism (Theravada or Mahayana) o Islam (Sunni, Shia, Sufism) o Hinduism • Racial/Ethnic groups (based on divisions in U.S.
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Diversity Lakeshia Grimes Grand Canyon University: HLT 302 02/19/12 Dr.Sunshine Weeks Abstract Healthiness source in urban area contain most patients being from different faiths. For example, Baha’i, Sikh, Buddhist patients similar to Christianity use conservative healing to balance a quantity of practices in their faith the same as prayer, faithfulness, and meditation. In the majority case as observes the viewpoint to curing and health care stipulation, Baha’i, Sikh, and Buddhist, now as
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