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J. Harold Ellens (ed.), The Healing Power of Spirituality : How Faith Helps Humans Thrive. Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, ABC-CLIO, 3 volume set, 2010, ISBN 978-0-313-36645- 1 (hbk) $184.95. Volume 1 : Personal Spirituality, 281 pp., ISBN 978-0-313-36647-5 (hbk); Volume 2 : Religion, 331 pp., ISBN 978-0-313-36649-9 (hbk); Volume 3: Pyschodynamics, 377 pp., ISBN 978-0-313-37201-8 (hbk)
Religion is like a two-edged sword, it can lead to brutality, violence and devastation on the one hand, and eternal peace, harmony and universal love on the other. Thus religion can ruin psychophysiological health as well as heal it. The positive or negative consequences will, however, depend upon what a person really believes in his heart. Men, in general, never do evil so completely and cheerfully unless they do it from religious conviction. As a matter of fact, the essence of almost every religion is the search for the sacred which is not only sublime and divine but is also the Ultimate Reality or Ultimate Truth. The focal point is not the knowledge about...