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Belief - Is belief voluntary?: Encyclopedia - Belief

Belief in the psychological sense, is a representational mental state that takes the form of a propositional attitude. In the religious sense, "belief" refers to a part of a wider spiritual or moral foundation, generally called faith; historically generated by a group's need to provide a functionally valid foundation to sustain them. The generally accepted faiths usually note that when oppressive states are generated by it being exercised, and not a fact of reality, it was ...

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Belief - Is belief voluntary?: Encyclopedia II - Belief - Belief as a psychological theory Mainstream psychology and related disciplines have traditionally treated belief as if it were the simplest form of mental representation and therefore one of the building blocks of conscious thought. Philosophers have tended to be more rigorous in their analysis and much of the work examining the viability of the belief concept stems from philosophical analysis. The concept of belief presumes a subject (the believer) and an object of belief (the proposition) so like other propositional attitudes, belief implies the existence of mental ...

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Belief - Is belief voluntary?: Encyclopedia - Lohas

LOHAS is an acronym for Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability - a $227 billion market segment in the U.S. alone but worldwide in its extent. It aligns with those who espouse New Age belief but extends also into the environmentalist movement and Complementary and alternative medicine. It describes a marketplace for goods and services which appeal to consumers who value:- health, the environment, social justice, personal develop ...

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Belief - Is belief voluntary?: Encyclopedia - Criticism of Religion

The criticism of religion includes criticism of the concept of religion itself, criticism of the practice of religion, and criticism of the consequences of religion on humanity as a whole. The singular word religion is used here referring to the concept of religion, rather than a particular religion or any group of religions. This page is about criticism of religion in general, as opposed to criticism of any specific religion. Criticism of Religion - Social construct. One criticism of religion is the ...

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Belief - Is belief voluntary?: Encyclopedia - Evil eye

The evil eye is a widely distributed element of folklore or superstition: a belief that some people, often women seen as witches, can bestow a curse on victims by the malevolent gaze of their magical eye. The effects on victims vary; some have them afflicted with bad luck of various sorts. Others believe the evil eye has even more baleful powers, that it can cause disease, wasting away, and even death. Some cultures hold that the evil eye is an involuntary jinx that is cast unintentionally by people unlucky to be cursed with th ...

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Belief - Is belief voluntary?: Encyclopedia - Volunteer

The term volunteer is contested -- there is no one agreed-to definition, and the term is frequently debated. Some say a volunteer is someone who performs or offers to perform service out of his or her own free will, without payment, usually in support of a non-profit organisation, mission-based initiative or community. Others say the term volunteer can apply to someone who receives a stipend for his or her service, as long as the volunteer is engaged in full-time service and has no other paid job. The term is usua ...

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Belief - Is belief voluntary?: Encyclopedia - Jewish principles of faith

There are a number of basic Jewish principles of faith that one is expected to uphold in order to be said to be in consonance with the Jewish faith. However, unlike most Christian denominations, the Jewish community has never developed any one binding catechism. A number of formulations of Jewish beliefs have appeared, though there is some dispute over how many basic principles there are. Rabbi Joseph Albo, for instance, in Sefer Ha-Ikkarim counts three principles of faith, while Maimonides lists thirteen. While some lat ...

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Belief - Is belief voluntary?: Encyclopedia - Ammon Hennacy

Ammon Hennacy (July 24, 1893 - January 14, 1970) was a pacifist, Christian anarchist, vegetarian, social activist, member of the Catholic Worker Movement and was known for establishing the "Joe Hill House of Hospitality" in Salt Lake City, Utah and never paying taxes. Ammon Hennacy - Biography. Hennacy was born in Negley, Ohio to Quaker parents and grew up as a Baptist. On hearing Billy Sunday preach in 1909 he became an atheist and shortly afterward became a socialist. He studied for a year at three differ ...

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Belief - Is belief voluntary?: Encyclopedia - Congregationalist church governance

Congregationalist church governance, often known as congregationalism, is a system of church governance in which every local congregation is independent. The Anabaptist movement, Baptists and others besides the Congregational churches are organized according to it. In Christianity, it is distinguished from presbyterian church governance, which is governance by elders, and from epis ...

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Belief - Is belief voluntary?: Encyclopedia - Lycanthropy

In folklore, Lycanthropy is the ability or power of a human being to undergo transformation into a wolf. The term comes from ancient Greek lykánthropos (λυκάνθρωπος): λύκος, lýkos ("wolf") + άνθρωπος, ánthrōpos ("man"). The word lycanthropy is often used generically for any transformation of a human into animal form, though the precise term for that is technically therianthropy. Folk-etymology also links the word to Lycaon, a king of Arcadia who, according to Ovid's Metamorpho ...

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Belief - Is belief voluntary?: Encyclopedia - Universal Church of the Kingdom of God

Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (IURD, from Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus, UCKG1) is the name for a rapidly growing Brazilian new religious movement. The church is spreading world-wide, especially in Portuguese-speaking countries. Universal Church of the Kingdom of God - History. The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God adopted its current name in 1979. It was originally founded in 1977, by Edir Mac ...

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Belief - Is belief voluntary?: Encyclopedia - Communitarianism

Communitarianism as a group of related but distinct philosophies began in the late 20th century, opposing aspects of liberalism and capitalism while advocating phenomena such as civil society. Not necessarily hostile to liberalism in the contemporary American sense of the word, communitarianism rather has a different emphasis, shifting the focus of interest toward communities and societies and away from the individual. The question of priority (individual or community) often has the largest impact in the most pressing ethical question ...

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Belief - Is belief voluntary?: Encyclopedia - Christian right

Christian Right is a term collectively referring to a spectrum of conservative Christian political and social movements and organizations characterized by their strong support of social values they deem traditional in the United States and other western countries. The terms Christian Right and Religious right are sometimes used interchangeably, although this is problematic (see discussion at Religious right). Christian right - Pejorative sense. The term Christian Right is often used in a derogatory o ...

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Belief - Is belief voluntary?: Encyclopedia - Alien hand syndrome

Alien hand syndrome (anarchic hand or Dr. Strangelove syndrome) is an unusual neurological disorder in which one of the sufferer's hands seems to take on a life of its own. AHS is best documented in cases where a person has had the two hemispheres of their brain surgically separated, a procedure sometimes used to relieve the symptoms of extreme cases of epilepsy. It also occurs in some cases after other brain surgery, strokes, or infections. Alien hand syndrome - Symptoms. An Alien Hand suffer ...

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Belief - Is belief voluntary?: Encyclopedia - The Way International

The Way International is a religious organization founded by Victor Paul Wierwille in 1942. The Way International has produced extensive biblical research material dealing with Old Testament and New Testament languages (Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic), numbers, figures of speech, apparent contradictions within the Christian Bible, as well as astronomical and historical information. This group is non-trinitarian and does not believe the Christian entities of Jesus Christ and God are the same. While The Way describes itself as a Christian gr ...