Folk Healing Christians, Jews and Muslims

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Folk Healing Christians, Jews and Muslims
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Health and Illness in White Europeans

• 75 of Continental United States Population

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Ethnic Diversity1820-2000

• Dutch 1.6
• English 8.7
• French 3
• German 15.2
• Irish 10.9
• Italian 5.6
• Polish 3.2
• Russian7
• Scotch 3.2
• Scandinavian 3.0

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Tribes A Group of People Sharing Customs,
Languages and Territory

• Imparts Identity
• Identity Effects Choosing

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Domains of Culture

• Heritage, legacy
• Environmental control- nature. God
• Biologic variation skin color, metabolism
• Social organization- family size, birth, death
• Communication verbal non verbal, eye contact

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Cultural Phenomenon

• Communication
• Rapid assimilation of English some language of
  origin used at home
• Eye contact
• Encouraged, used to communicate
• Touch
• Neutral to encouraged
• Physical space
• Uses intimate and personal zones
• Time
• Future orientation, use of clocks, watches

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Religious Affiliations

• Christians
• Anglican, http//www.ecusa.anglican.org/welcome
• Protestants Lutherans, Methodists, Quakers
• http//www.lcms.org/ , http//www.elca.org/
• Baptist, http//www.utm.edu/martinarea/fbc/bfm.htm
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• Agnostics/Atheist's http//www.agnostic.org/
• Jews http//ucsu.colorado.edu/jsu/launcher.html
  
• Muslim http//www.islam-guide.com/frm-ch1-1-c.htm
  

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Scripture Based Religions

• Philosphy, Intellectualism, Argument
• Torah, old testament
• New Testament
• Koran

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Judaism
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OLD Testament(Torah)History of the Jewish
People

• - Introduction- Genesis- Exodus- Leviticus-
  Numbers- Deuteronomy- Joshua- Judges- Ruth
• 1_Samuel- 2_Samuel
• - 1_Kings- 2_Kings- 1_Chronicles-
  2_Chronicles- Ezra- Nehemiah- Esther- Job-
  Psalms

• Proverbs- Ecclesiastes- Song_of_Songs-
  Isaiah- Jeremiah- Lamentations- Ezekiel-
  Daniel- Hosea-
• Joel- Amos- Obadiah- Jonah- Micah- Nahum-
  Habakkuk- Zephaniah- Haggai- Zechariah-
  Malachi

• -

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What Do Jews Believe?

1. G-d exists, G-d is one and unique, G-d is spirit,
   G-d is eternal
2. Prayer is to be directed to G-d alone and to no
   other, G-D expects, accepts sacrifices
3. The words of the prophets are true
4. Moses's prophecies are true, and Moses was the
   greatest of the prophets
5. The Written Torah (first 5 books of the Bible)
   and Oral Torah (teachings now contained in the
   Talmud and other writings) are divine

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What Do Jews Believe? Cont

1. There will be no other Torah, bible, inspired
   readings
2. G-d knows the thoughts and deeds of men
3. G-d will reward the good and punish the wicked
4. The Messiah will come
5. The dead will be resurrected

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Essence of Judaism

• That which is hateful to the do not do to
  another, go study the Torah. (Hillel)
• Seek G_D in all things, live by the laws of
  righteousness
• Your life with demonstrate the greatness of you
  faith in G-D

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Four Pillars of the Covenant

• Relationship with creator
• Community and personal
• Reading the Torah
• To find answers, stay in prayer
• People as witness and servant
• Universalistic humanitarianism
• Live in the promised land and serve

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Who is a Jew.

• A Jew is any person whose mother was a Jew or any
  person who has gone through the formal process of
  conversion to Judaism.

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Judaism Began with Abraham

• Nomadic people of Israel, Jerusalem Egypt-Spain
• Makes a covenant with G-d to worship him and G-D
  will take care of the children of Israel
• Written record 586 BC
• Yehudi (Jew) belonging to the tribe of Judah

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Jewish Customs Are Designed As a Call to
Holiness

• Obedience, because G-d says so
• Filled with grace/fill with grace.
• The ability to distinguish between right and
  wrong, good and evil, pure and defiled, the
  sacred and the profane, is very important in
  Judaism

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Kashrut- Kaf-Shin-Resh, proper/correct ways

• Dietary law
• Family table is an alter
• Holidays - history.
• Remember

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Dietary Laws

• Of the "Beasts of the Earth" (Which Basically
  Refers to Land Mammals With the Exception of
  Swarming Rodents), You May Eat Any Animal That
  Has Cloven Hooves and Chews Its Cud. Lev. 113
  Deut. 146.,
• Pig, rabbit do not chew a cud.(treyf)
• Of the things that are in the waters, you may eat
  anything that has fins and scales. Lev. 119
  Deut. 149.
• All of the birds on the forbidden list are birds
  of prey or scavengers

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Preparation

1. Cannot eat anything that dies of natural causes.
2. Of the animals that may be eaten, the birds and
   mammals must be killed in accordance with Jewish
   law.
3. Blood drained, do not eat blood (Lev. 726-27
   Lev. 1710-14.).
4. All blood must be drained from the meat or
   broiled out of it before it is eaten.

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Dietary Laws

1. Separation of meat and dairy. Do not "boil a kid
   in its mother's milk." (Ex. 2319 Ex. 3426
   Deut. 1421).
2. Utensils that have come into contact with meat
   may not be used with dairy, and vice versa.
3. Utensils that have come into contact with
   non-kosher food may not be used with kosher food.
   This applies only where the contact occurred
   while the food was hot.

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Separation of Meat and Dairy

• One must wait a significant amount of time
  between eating meat and dairy because meat and
  fat stick to the mouth. Opinions differ, and vary
  from three to six hours.
• From dairy to meat, however, one need only rinse
  one's mouth and eat a neutral solid like bread,
  unless the dairy product in question is also of a
  type that tends to stick in the mouth.

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Grape products made by non-Jews may not be
eaten.

• Wine was commonly used in the rituals of all
  ancient religions, and wine was routinely
  sanctified for pagan purposes while it was being
  processed.
• it is virtually impossible to find kosher baking
  powder, because baking powder is made with cream
  of tartar, a by-product of wine making.

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Foods

• GEFILTE FISH
• Bread stuffed fish
• KUGEL
• Matzah, bread, noodle pudding
• Cholent
• Stew
• Challa
• Braided sweet bread
• Latkes
• Potato pancakes
• Donuts
• Cooked in oil

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Social Effects

• Keeps Jewish celebrating and eating together and
  not with anyone else

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Jewish Celebrations

• Shabbat Rest, to cease worldliness, go to the
  time out of time, Celebration of the completeness
  of G-ds creation
• Friday sundown home celebration, Saturday in the
  synagogue
• Two Shabbat candles are lit by mother /daughters
  (to observe and remember)
• Berakhah (blessing) _ Blessed art thou King of
  the Universe who has hallowed us by the
  commandments and commanded us to kindle the
  Sabbath lights.
• Shield the eyes so as not to see the result of
  G-ds work
• The Meal Braided Bread for the double manna
  given during the exodus for Egypt and wine for
  sweetness and joy

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Festivals and fasts

• Passage of time nomadic, agricultural
• Spring Passover (Pesah)
• Shavuot
• Fall Rosh Hashanah
• Yom Kippur
• Winter Hanukah
• Purim
• Historical events remember, empathy for
  suffering

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Yom Tov

• Good Days
• Rejoicing
• Ceremonial meals, rituals
• High Holy Days work restrictions
• Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur
• Days of Awe,

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Pesh PassoverFestival of unleavened bread

• Exodus from Egypt
• The holiday marks the beginning of the harvest
  season
• The paschal lamb that, in Temple times, was
  sacrificed on this holiday.
• Fast then eat fast to expierence hunger, eat as
  celebration of G-ds gifts and covenant to his
  children
• No raising of the bread lt 18 mins quick bread

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Seder dinner

• Two candles, sweet wine
• Parsley, green vegetable- spring time
• Salt water tears
• Charoset, honey, apples, nuts motor of slaves
  building
• Bitter herbs- horseradish- slavery
• Hardboiled eggs- life follows death
• Paschal lamb - offering

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Shavot

• End of Passover
• Day of freedom
• Holy day of study, reading of the ten commandments

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Rosh Hashanah

• September/October
• Sounding of the Rams horn at sun rise (shofar)
• Call to be ready
• 10 days of fast sun rise to sun set
• Only water and matzo
• Practice self control, discipline, freely
• Support the poor, pay back debts

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Yom Kippur

• 10th day after Rosh Hashanah
• Day of atonement, repentance
• Holiest Day of the year
• Celebrate evening meal with sweet foods for a
  sweet new year

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Hanukah

• Festival of the temple rededication and of the
  miracle of the oil of the lamp
• Eight lights of the menorah
• 9th light is the servant
• Shamash
• Honey for sweetness
• Donuts in oil

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Purim

• Book of Ester
• Story of Ester saving her people the Jews
• Ester married The King of Persia concealing her
  Judaism
• Evil Haman was trying to kill the Jews
• Haman was killed instead
• Carnival atmosphere, celebration of loyalty and
  life

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Symbols http//www.jewfaq.org/signs.htm

• Mezuzah doorpost
• Tefillin leather pouch http//www.stam.net/Tefil
  lin.html
• Tzitzit and Tallit four cornered poncho,
  tzitzit, fringe

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Signs and Symbolshttp//www.jewfaq.org/signs.htm

• Yarmulke skull cap
• Magen David Star of David, intertwined 3
  tribes
• Chai 18, life
• Hamesh Hand Arab hand of G-d

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Jewish Customs

• Related to the cycle of the biblical year.
• Biblical origins.
• Bring salt and bread to the new house.
• Pregnancy.
• Fright, mother?
• Evil eye say prayer, spit (3 times).
• Birth- redeem and buy back the first born son on
  the 31st day, 5 pieces of silver.
• Do not discuss name before birth.
• Named after dead relative.
• Red ribbon protection.
• Circumcision.

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Selected Beliefs

• Matrilineal religion, patrilineal decent.
• Evil eye 36 of the worlds population.
• Protection.
• Prayer, saying.
• Correct living, symbols can protect.
• Jewelry.
• Colorred, black.
• Sneeze heart stops, god bless you.

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Common Sayings

• Shalom- hello, goodbye, peace
• From your mouth to gods ears
• Lchaim! To life
• Mazel Tov good luck
• Until 120 years
• The rest of the story, the whole story
• God Forbid
• All in favor say oy

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Inspired Writings

• The order as well as the number of books differs
  between the Jewish Bible and the Protestant and
  Roman Catholic
• Explain mysteries, direct behavior, provide
  history, creed and custom
• Teach reading

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10 Commandments

• (1) the prologue
• (2) prohibition of the worship of any deity but
  Yahweh, and prohibition of idolatry
• (3) prohibition of the use of the name of God for
  vain purposes
• (4) observance of the Sabbath
• (5) honoring of one's father and mother
• (6) prohibition of murder
• (7) prohibition of adultery
• (8) prohibition of stealing
• (9) prohibition of giving false testimony and
  (10) prohibition of coveting the property or wife
  of one's neighbor.

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Old Testament

• The term Old Testament (from the Latin word for
  "covenant").
• "Old Covenant" that God made with Israel and the
  "New Covenant" established through Jesus Christ
  (see, for example, Hebrew 87). The early church
  believed in the continuity of history and of
  divine activity, it included in the Christian
  Bible the written records of both the Old and the
  New covenants.

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1st-3rd Century Christians

• Jews Pagans
• Mystical cult religion, incorporated blood
  sacrifice
• Due unto others, Golden rule, altruism
• Built upon Jesus fulfilling Jewish messiah
  prediction
• Resurrection form the dead
• Ravages of sin

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Christianity

• Based on the life of a mystical, charismatic
  miracle worker
• Challenged the established religions, political
  and social order
• Triune god, one in three
• Power of the Holy spirit

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Beliefs

• There is meaning in suffering, justice, moral
  duty and messianic (One who is anticipated as,
  regarded as, or professes to be a savior or
  liberator.)
• Individuals are responsible for social order,
• Man is a social being
• Laws/codes are necessary to support civilized
  life
• Ten commandments are minimum standard

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Beliefs

• Equality
• Community
• Compassion
• Golden rule
• Due unto others
• Peace, harmony

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Catholic Catholics http//www.catholic.net/

• Old new testament apocrypha

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The New Testament

• 27 documents written between AD 50 and 150
  concerning matters of belief and practice in
  Christian communities throughout the
  Mediterranean world.
• Gospels the Acts of the Apostles, a history of
  early Christianity Epistles, or letters, of Paul
  and other writers and an apocalypse, or book of
  revelation. Some books identified as letters,
  particularly the Book of Hebrews, are theological
  treatises.

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Apocrypha

• Biblical writings of disputed authenticity 
  books of the Bible that are included in the
  Vulgate (Latin) and Septuagint (Greek) versions
  of the Christian Bible, but not in the Protestant
  Bible or the Hebrew canon.
• Baruch Esther Judith Maccabees Sirach Tobit
  Wisdom.

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What Do Catholics Believe

• http//www.catholic.org/prayer/beliefs.html.
• I. To gain the happiness of heaven we must know,
  love, and serve God in this world. Man is raised
  to the supernatural order only by grace, a free
  gift of God.
• II. We learn to know, love, and serve God from
  Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who teaches us
  through the Catholic Church.

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What Do Catholics Believe

• III. In order to be saved, all persons who have
  attained the use of reason must believe
  explicitly that God exist and that he rewards the
  good and punishes the wicked in practice they
  must also believe in the mysteries of the Blessed
  Trinity and the Incarnation.
• IV. By the Blessed Trinity we mean one and the
  same God in three divine persons, the Father, the
  Son, and the Holy Ghost.

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What Do Catholics Believe

• V. By the Incarnation is meant that the Son of
  God, retaining His divine nature, took to Himself
  a human nature, that is, a body and soul like
  ours.
• VI. The Church is the congregation of all
  baptized persons united in the same true faith,
  the same sacrifice, and the same sacraments,
  under the authority of the Sovereign Pontiff and
  the bishops in communion with him.

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What Do Catholics Believe

• VII. We find the chief truths taught by Jesus
  Christ through the Catholic Church in the
  Apostles' Creed.

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Catholic Celebrations

• Biblical Year life and death of Jesus
• Sunday worship
• High holy days
• Winter, Christmas birth, advent
• Spring, Easter Death/resurrection
• Season of lent 40 days
• Ash Wednesday - Palm Sunday-good Friday, holy
  Thursday, Easter Sunday
• Other holidays related to other holy/people or
  events.
• November 1-2 all souls day

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Practices

• Ritual of the Mass
• Sequential recitation of scripture and ritual to
  honor the sacrifice of Jesus
• Change water into the blood of Jesus and bread
  into the body and share this with the faithful
• Fasting, confession and penance

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Christian - Protestantism

• Old new testament
• Apostles creed, http//web.mit.edu/lem/www/apostle
  s-creed.html
• 22,000 Denominations and sects
• Lutheran, Methodists, Presbyterian, Latter Day
  Saints, Jehovahs Witness, Baptist, Evangelical,
  Holiness

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What Do Protest ants Believe

• 1) Justification by grace through faith.  We
  consider ourselves individually responsible to
  God, and accordingly, freer to experience God's
  grace.  This grace comes through Jesus Christ to
  us as a gift, and cannot be bought, earned, or
  conveyed by clergy.

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What Do Protest ants Believe

• 2) Authority of the Bible.  We rely upon the
  Bible as authoritative both in matters of faith
  and as inspired by the Holy Spirit.  Nonetheless,
  we respect the "right of private judgment," and
  often don't agree on interpretation of the
  scripture.

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What Do Protest ants Believe

• 3) Universal priesthood of believers. We enlarge
  the role of the laity, encourage individual study
  and meditation, and reject the imposition of
  other humans as mediators between us and God.

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Orthodoxold Testament New

• Adhering to the Christian faith as expressed in
  the early Christian ecumenical creeds. Good basis
  for socialism.
• Icons used for illiterate population.

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Christianity Spread During 4-6 Century by
Apostles and Saints.

• Russian
• http//www.russian-orthodox-church.org.ru/
• Greek http//members.aol.com/GrkOrthdx/index.html

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Current Shared Ideas, Beliefs

• Cause and effect 98
• Unhealthy habits
• Scientific basis
• Improper combination of situations
• Punishment from god
• Not going to worship
• Punishment for sin
• Parental god

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Current Shared Ideas, Beliefs cont

• Mystical god
• Personal relationship with god
• Messiah
• Miracles, prayer
• Families are important
• Work ethic

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Common practices

• Use of a temple/church
• Baptism, bathing
• Circumcision
• Amulets medals
• Prayer
• Saints/Angles

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Belief in an After Life With God
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Arabic World

• Christians, Muslims, Jews
• Sharing of History, Mythology and Creed

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Islam, Muslim

• Islamic Creed La Ilaha Illa Llah, Muhammadun
  Rasool Allah.
• There Is No Deity Except Allah and Muhammad Is
  His Messenger
• Islam Means Submission
• http//www.islamworld.net/

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Islam

• Based in the old testament and prophesies of
  another messenger, Mohammad, the Comforter,
  helper, and admonisher sent by God after Jesus. 
• Descendent of Abraham.
• Fastest growing religion in the world today.
• You are a Muslim if you
• say you are,

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Some Basic Islamic Beliefs

• 1) Belief in God
• 2) Belief in the Angels
• 3) Belief in Gods Revealed Books
• 4) Belief in the Prophets and Messengers of God
• 5) Belief in the Day of Judgment
• 6) Belief in Al-Qadar

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Allah Praise be his name

• The Arabic name for God, Allah, refers to the
  same God of Abraham, worshiped by Jews and
  Christians.
• Practice the teachings in the Koran (Quran).
  Given to Mohammad the last prophet by the Angel
  Gabriel.
• The sunnah is comprised of hadeeths, which are
  reports of what the Prophet Muhammads said, did,
  or approved of. 
• All worshipers of GOD are really worshiping Allah
  they just aren't aware of it.

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Common History

• Adam was created , NOT born, When ADAM was 130
  years old when son SET born . Adam lived 800 more
  years, died at the age of 930 years
• Adam to Noah's flood gt 1,656 years
• Adam to Abraham's birth gt 1,946 years
• Isaac to Jesus Christ's birth gt approx. 3,000
  years
• Ishmael to Muhammad SAW prophet hood gt approx
  3,600 years
• Adam was here on earth approx. 7,000 years ago

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Islam like Judaism gives Direction to All Areas
of Life

• Due to his human nature man must use his free
  will to govern himself.
• Using Allah plan man will bring his himself into
  harmony balance and integration.
• A human is a indivisible, organic whole.

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Five Pillars of Faith

• http//www.islamworld.net/
• Declaration of faith
• Prayer
• Fasting
• Take care of the poor
• Pilgrimage to Mecca Hagar seven trips for water

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Illness Is the Will of God

• Suffering is gods plan for dissolving sin
• Sacrifice is given in return for healing

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Fasting

• http//www.islam-mauritius.org/ramadan.htmtimings

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Developing Healing Treatments

• Used the scientific approach.
• In his voluminous writings, Ibn Sina 981-1037
  CE laid out the following rules for testing the
  effectiveness of a new drug or medication. These
  principles still form the basis of modern
  clinical drug trials.
• Equal belief in the power of god and faith
  healing.
• Scientific proof in the Quran.
• http//www.it-is-truth.org/Index.shtml.

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Current Shared Ideas, Beliefs

• Cause and effect 98
• Unhealthy habits
• Scientific basis
• Improper combination of situations
• Punishment from god
• Not going to worship
• Punishment for sin
• Parental god
• Mystical god
• Personal relationship with god
• Messiah
• Miracles, prayer
• Sacrifice, suffering
• Families are important
• Work ethic

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Common practices

• Use of a temple/church
• Baptism, bathing
• Circumcision
• Amulets medals
• Prayer
• Fasting
• Pilgrimages
• Saints/Angles

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Belief in an After Life With God
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Quiz Effects on Healing

• Defining the sick role
• Prescribing treatments
• Prevention/responsibility
• Rehabilitation
• Death rituals

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Mystical Healing

• Healing with the power of GOD. Life force
• Kabalah
• Jewish System
• Bajir Book Of Brilliance
• Tree of Life Archetype
• 1-The crown
• 2- Wisdom
• 3-Understanding
• 4-Mercy
• 5J-udgement
• 6-Beauty
• 7-Victory
• 8-Splendor
• 9-Foundation
• 10-Kingdom
• Balance, harmony, wholeness

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Islamic science

• Basis for science in the Koran
• Inclusion of Ancient Pharmacology, mathematics
  and epidemiology
• Medicine
• Man is a reflection of the universe
• Integration of Greek System
• Surgery, Compounding pharmacology, Internal
  Illness, hygiene,
• TB, Meningitis, Contagion, Psychosomatic illness

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White European Culture

• Future orientation
• Science as a tool to master the environment
• Personal achievement
• Progress towards better life
• Productivity
• Equality, morality
• Autonomy, responsibility
• Nationalism/ American
• Democratic principals
• Outward Conformity
• Racism, group superiority