An external evaluation documented what occurred in an inaugural summer camp to teach high school students how to preserve religious freedom by learning about and acting on the history and current state of church-state separation and other first amendment issues. Camp designers hoped to promote religious diversity values and civic engagement in…

Investigates perceptions of the amount of interpersonal communication and attitudes towards communication frequency after the Trappist monk's rule of enforced silence and solitude was lifted in 1969. Concludes that increased interpersonal communication resulted in increased self-awareness and therefore more meaningful and effective silence. (MH)

Compares data about converts to Catholic Pentecostalism with a control sample in order to question traditional religious and social scientific theories about religious conversion. Shows how data can be organized either to support classical claims or to provide more factual results. Concludes that religious conversion should be studied in relation…

The exorcist prefers to be consulted as early as possible because prevention is better than cure. The task of the exorcist is easiest when the person to whom he is ministering is only threatened by the spirit of evil and not yet completely possessed by it. (Author)

The process of Christian counseling begins where the client is, and the counselor guides the process by a vision of where the client should be, given the counselor's values and the client's needs. The counselor uses techniques and methods he or she deems necessary and appropriate at any given time. (Author)

This article is an introduction to charismatic counseling. Charismatic clergy are seeing transformations of lives unlike anything experienced in their ministries before the charismatic renewal. (Author)

The frustrations involved in exploring the various paths of meditation for the Western mind are examined. Using the family as an experimental laboratory, daily efforts to meditate together are described showing the impact on individual family members. Subjective reactions to the experience are explored in order to gain self awareness. (Author)

Explored an interactive framework for understanding how gender influences the counseling process in religious counseling. Found that female counselors were perceived as more religious and effective than were their male counterparts. Results illustrate that the effects of gender on the counseling process can be predicted with an interactive model.…

This article attempts to explore the significance of the marriage encounter and to put it into the framework of other more studied types of encounter groups, particularly couples' encounter groups. He compares marriage and couples counseling and differentiates the former by its phiosophical, religious focus. (NG)