The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Medicine, and Health

Lüddeckens, Dorothea; Hetmanczyk, Philipp; Klassen, Pamela E.; Stein, Justin B.

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“…The modernization concept vigorously stresses that non-scientific treatment methods, especially those traditionally believed to be based on divine intervention, are in direct opposition to the modern concept of health and illness. It has been argued that religion, spirituality and ritual performance are simply irrelevant to the functioning of the body and, worse still, may have a detrimental effect on the health of individuals who believe that they can be miraculously cured by healers possessing supposedly supernatural skills (Lüddeckens et al, 2021 ). According to advocates of medical theories, no mental or physical disabilities can be cured by ecstatic states, communication with deities or the interventions of ancestral spirits (Sax, 2014 ).…”

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We are (not) Different from the Others: Religious Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Slovakia and India

Souček

2023

J Relig Health

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Although the narrative of modernity has been rejected by numerous scientists, it remains a powerful paradigm. Several Western countries have, during the COVID-19 pandemic, witnessed renewed interest in some archaic practices and beliefs. Based mostly on media analysis, this paper provides an insight into religious responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Slovakia and India, two completely different cultural areas. Simultaneously, it challenges the self-identification of the West as the epicentre of rational thought, in contrast to the so-called non-Western world. The self-image of superiority adopted by the modern West in terms of religious relevance has proved to be distorted, as the tendency to turn to spiritual practices in times of crisis is not exclusively a feature of non-Western societies.

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Section: Research On the Pandemic And Modernization Theorymentioning

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We are (not) Different from the Others: Religious Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Slovakia and India

Souček

2023

J Relig Health

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“…For example, vipaśyanā meditation-one of the practices associated with mindfulness-is associated with awareness in the abdomen (e.g., Bien & Didonna, 2009) and is sometimes categorized as a state of attentional diffusion (e.g., Dakwar & Levin, 2009); as such, the predicted attentional stance for vipaśyanā would be a diffuse attentional state centered on the abdomen. Conversely, since śamatha is achieved through practice of focused attention (e.g., Hickey, 2021) or the focusing of oneself (Stevens, 2021), it should be associated with focused attentional stances.…”

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Self-regulation of attentional stance facilitates induction of meditative states

Hartelius¹,

Likova²,

Tyler³

2023

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Attentional stances are particular ways in which the location of the source or seat of attention is situated within bodily experience. The goal of the study is to use this untapped cognitive resource to refine the construct of mindfulness by providing objective measurement and experimental control of these aspects of mindfulness. Location of the seat of attention, also described as self-location or egocenter, has been shown to have measurable impact on cognitive skill, emotional temperament, and selfconstrual, as well as social and moral attitudes. Our recent study has shown that the seat of attention can be volitionally self-regulated into various internal attentional stances that are stably associated with distinct patterns of cortical activation as measured with EEG. These results suggest that control of attentional stance should provide direct management of specific cognitive and emotional resources. Two specific global cognitive states associated with mindfulness are the positive emotional states of vipaśyanā and śamatha. The current study of the correlations of 11 attentional stances for with positive emotions reveal the association of vipaśyanā with a diffuse attentional stance centered on the abdomen, and śamatha with a focused attentional stance situated along the midline of the body. In addition to advancing denotation and differentiation of these two distinct elements of mindfulness, these results provide the opportunity for more efficient mindfulness training. Such opportunity would benefit anyone needing stress-reducing mindfulness training, and in particular, for underserved individuals in society who are most in need of stress management.

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The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Medicine, and Health

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We are (not) Different from the Others: Religious Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Slovakia and India

We are (not) Different from the Others: Religious Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Slovakia and India

Self-regulation of attentional stance facilitates induction of meditative states

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