America is in the midst of an acute alcohol and drug addiction crisis. [citation needed] He was unable to attend the state funeral of Ronald Reagan on June 11, 2004, as he was recovering from hip replacement surgery. As Indic studies gradually became the main focus of the Infinity Foundation, the ECIT was disbanded (the Indictraditions group was also closed down later, in the summer of 2003). Not only do most of the worlds Hindus, Jains and Sikhs live in India, but it also is home to one of the worlds largest Muslim populations and to millions of Christians and Buddhists. Graham's assertions, published in the Ladies' Home Journal, elicited letters of protest, and were offered as rebuttal to the establishment of "The New Feminism" section of the publication that had added following a sit-in protest at the Journal offices demanding female representation on the staff of the publication. Many Indian Muslims historically have followed the Hanafi school of thought, which for centuries allowed men to divorce their wives by saying talaq (which translates as divorce in Arabic and Urdu) three times. Millati Islami reports that its modified 12 steps and traditions, which incorporate Islamic principles, are of great benefit to Muslims in recovery. He was a prominent evangelical Christian figure, and according to a biographer, was "among the most influential Christian leaders" of the 20th century. It continues the discussion on the idea of non-translatability of Sanskrit, first introduced in the book, Being Different. 1). Knig, Daniel G., Arabic-Islamic Views of the Latin West. (2015) followed participants in alcohol outpatient treatment from 2weeks until 6months after enrollment; they found that those participants who relied on religion to help them cope were less likely to drink heavily and had fewer drinks per day than those who believed in no religion or resorted to NRC. And 37% say they pray every day, compared with more than half of Indians in other regions. The group follows a fundamentalist form of Jewish practice and adheres to its own atypical interpretations of Jewish law, including practices such as lengthy prayer sessions, arranged marriages From 1699 to 1913, wars and insurrections pushed the Ottoman Empire further back until it reached the current European border of present-day Turkey. We know that A.A. reports 1,297,396 members in the USA (Alcoholics Anonymous 2018b, May). [76], A survey conducted by Pew Research Center in 2016 found that Muslims make up 4.9% of all Europe's population. Brian J. The moderating role of spirituality in the association between stress and substance use among adolescents: Differences by gender. Koenig et al. [61] On July 23, King sent a letter to Graham and informed him that allowing Daniel to speak at a crusade which occurred the night before the state's Democratic Primary "can well be interpreted as your endorsement of racial segregation and discrimination. Evaluating the drug use gateway theory using cross-national data: Consistency and associations of the order of initiation of drug use among participants in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys. [15][18] Graham attended the Sharon Grammar School. Religiosity and exposure to users in explaining illicit drug use among emerging adults. While there, his friend Torrey Johnson, pastor of the Midwest Bible Church in Chicago, told Graham that his radio program, Songs in the Night, was about to be canceled due to lack of funding. "[web 1], According to Braverman, "Though Malhotra's academic targets say he has some valid discussion points, they also argue that his rhetoric taps into the rightward trend and attempts to silence unorthodox, especially Western, views. [75][pageneeded], The 'network of trust' created by the book is said to have caused 132 academics from India to sign a petition asking for the removal of Sheldon Pollock from the editorship of the Murty Classical Library of India. 2018). The questions used in this analysis can be found here. The main exception is Buddhists, one-third of whom say they do not believe in God. EzineArticles.com allows expert authors in hundreds of niche fields to get massive levels of exposure in exchange for the submission of their quality original articles. [47], As a result of Babai revolt, in 1261, one of the Turkoman dervish Sari Saltuk was forced to take refuge in the Byzantine Empire, alongside 40 Turkoman clans. Secular Organization for Sobriety. For instance, a study by Lyons et al. [44], On 2 April 2014, seven Lev Tahor members were arrested in a raid performed by Canadian border security. Sources: A.A. (2014, 2018, May), CEA (2017), Dennis et al. [116] According to her study, Muslim girls and women are murdered for honor in both the Western world and elsewhere for refusing to wear the hijab or for not wearing it strictly. Templeton applied to Princeton Theological Seminary for an advanced theological degree and urged Graham to do so as well, but he declined as he was already serving as the president of Northwestern Bible College. The proportion today is likely in the same ballpark, indicating that much of the work of faith-based organizations to address substance abuse is accomplished with relatively little government funding. Although these A.A. meetings occur inside the church buildings, the programs offered are spiritual and not religious; in other words, they are not based on the religion or religious oversight of the churches hosting the groups. Changes in Indias religious landscape over time are largely a result of differences in fertility rates among religious groups, not conversion. '"[102], In 2012, Graham endorsed the Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney. [10], Werner Erhard was a student of Everett's, and became an instructor in his own right in the Mind Dynamics training. We include it because it is consistent with the general trend toward religious disaffiliation. The CEA chairpersons require Senate confirmation. [23] The withdrawal led to extensive media attention, and renewed sales in India. [78] Data from the 2000s for the rates of growth of Islam in Europe showed that the growing number of Muslims was due primarily to immigration and higher birth rates. [114] An estimated 13 out of 15 favoring a ban of face-covering veils in Western Europe. At one revival in Seoul, South Korea, Graham attracted more than one million people to a single service. The CEA took this non-fatal total cost of $58.0 billion and divided it by the 1.9 million individuals who had a prescription opioid disorder in 2013 (the reference year of Florence et al. A major new Pew Research Center survey of religion across India, based on nearly 30,000 face-to-face interviews of adults conducted in 17 languages between late 2019 and early 2020 (before the COVID-19 pandemic), finds that Indians of all these religious backgrounds overwhelmingly say they are very free to practice their faiths. 2017), substance abuse recovery programs dependent on volunteering, such as those offered in A.A. and congregation-based groups, have a built-in advantage for success. [45] He appeared in China in 1988; for his wife, Ruth, this was a homecoming, since she had been born in China to missionary parents. In addition to his religious aims, he helped shape the worldview of a huge number of people who came from different backgrounds, leading them to find a relationship between the Bible and contemporary secular viewpoints. "[91], Graham was a lifelong registered member of the Democratic Party. This is not to say that all people with addictions benefit from faith content in recovery, but many do. A near-universal share of Sikhs say they are very proud to be Indian (95%), and the vast majority (70%) say a person who disrespects India cannot be a Sikh. Kaskutas et al. We find that 73% of addiction treatment programs in the USA include a spirituality-based element, as embodied in the 12-step programs and fellowships initially popularized by Alcoholics Anonymous, the vast majority of which emphasize reliance on God or a Higher Power to stay sober. (2015), 3.45 times higher, which would be 38,015 people. Culturally and politically, people in the South have pushed back against the BJPs restrictions on cow slaughter and efforts to nationalize the Hindi language. [40] The following day, at least two adults and six children from the group arrived in Guatemala. Federal competitive funding won by faith-based and secular nonprofit organizations (NPOs). Haug S, Nez CL, Becker J, Gmel G, Schaub MP. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). [11] Another Pew study published in 2017 projected that in 2050 Muslims will make 7.4% (if all migration into Europe were to immediately and permanently stop - a "zero migration" scenario) up to 14% (under a "high" migration scenario) of Europe's population. [77], A Pew Research Center study, published in January 2011, forecast an increase of Muslims in European population from 6% in 2010 to 8% in 2030. 2015), total membership (Alcoholics Anonymous 2018a), number of groups (Alcoholics Anonymous 2018a), VSL (Council of Economic Advisers 2017), non-fatality costs of addiction (Council of Economic Advisers 2017), number of religious and spiritual substance abuse recovery programs held in congregations (Grim and Grim 2016). These data and the evidence this study presents indicate that the decline in religious affiliation in the USA is a national health concern and not merely a concern for the religious groups. Longest KC, Vaisey S. Control or conviction: Religion and adolescent initiation of marijuana use. Sonix is the best audio and video transcription software online. In particular, three-quarters of Muslims in India (74%) support having access to the existing system of Islamic courts, which handle family disputes (such as inheritance or divorce cases), in addition to the secular court system. [4][5][6] The transcontinental countries of Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan are also majority Muslim. [21] The popularity of literary Arabic was just one aspect of the Arabization of the Christians of the Iberian Peninsula which led contemporaries to refer to the affected populations as "Mozarabs (mozrabes in Spanish; morabes in Portuguese from the Arabic: mustarib; like Arabs, Arabicized"[22]. [21], Graham was turned down for membership in a local youth group for being "too worldly". The CEA report (2017, p. 4) identified three federal agencies that have issued formal guidance on VSL to inform their rulemaking and regulatory decision making: the US Department of Transportation (DOT), the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).6. [12] According to his autobiography, Graham was 16 when he was converted during a series of revival meetings that Ham led in Charlotte in 1934. Billy Graham, prominent Christian evangelist, dead at 99", "Evangelist Billy Graham dies at age 99; reached millions", Special Event Honoring Rev. [11] A 2010 Pew Research Center study reported that 2.7% of the world's Muslim population live in Europe. "[92][93], Malhotra claimed on social media in August 2020 that he spoke out against Wikipedia in the 1990s in a talk in Auroville that was posted in their magazine, when the portal sought Indian users for donations. [50][51], Malhotra further claims that Dharmic traditions are misunderstood by the West, one being the scholars conflated the use of Dharmic images and deities with pre-Christian Peganism, although Paganism is quite different from Dharmic bhakti. [4][5][6] These communities consist predominantly of indigenous Europeans of the Muslim faith, whose religious tradition dates back several hundred years to the Middle Ages. George, L., Ellison, C., & Larson, D. (2002). [70] In transcontinental countries such as Turkey 99%, and 93% in Azerbaijan[71] of the population is Muslim respectively. 2011) that found that the top three factors in maintaining sobriety after rehabilitation were staying connected to God (62%), family (36%), and hanging out with positive people (22%). will also be available for a limited time. Applying this additional condition means that 11,376 people are alive this year who otherwise would not have been without achieving sobriety. Johnson BR, Lee MT, Pagano ME, Post SG. Moreover, even among those achieving 5years or more of sobriety, 86% are likely to relapse (Dennis et al. 2829). (2007). The caste system is an ancient social hierarchy based on occupation and economic status. For example, among Hindu BJP voters who link national identity with both religion and language, 83% say it is very important to stop Hindu women from marrying into another religion, compared with 61% among other Hindu voters. Higher teenage religiosity was also related to other factors related to a decrease in drug use, such as good family relations, high academic performance in school, having anti-drug attitudes, and socializing with friends who do not take drugs (Johnson 2002). While there, he served time in prison for kidnapping a 13-year-old Israeli boy who was sent to study with him in preparation for the boy's bar mitzvah. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. Detailed data are not available for the nearly 130,000 congregational substance abuse recovery groups. [web 1] Martha Nussbaum has called it a "war"[15] by "the Hindu right"[22] against American scholars. [37] Graham initially intended to become a chaplain in the Armed Forces, but he contracted mumps shortly after applying for a commission. groups are not religious organizations, they frequently meet in spaces provided by local congregations at a low or no cost.3 In effect, many of the nearly 130,000 US congregations that have alcohol and drug abuse recovery groups (Grim and Grim 2016) either host A.A. or N.A. Furthermore, because of the enormous prestige and power of Western universities, a view of the Sanskrit will become accepted by the public. Moreover, the vast majority of Sikhs (94%) regard their holy book, the Guru Granth Sahib, as the word of God, and many (37%) say they read it, or listen to recitations of it, every day. We introduce and flesh out a typology of faith-based substance abuse treatment facilities, recovery programs, and support groups. Debnam KJ, Milam AJ, Mullen MM, Lacey K, Bradshaw CP. Among Southern Indians, for example, 30% see widespread discrimination against Dalits, compared with 13% in the Central part of the country. He later invited Martin Luther King Jr. to preach jointly at a revival in New York City in 1957. 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Among Hindus, for instance, any conversion out of the group is matched by conversion into the group: 0.7% of respondents say they were raised Hindu but now identify as something else, and although Hindu texts and traditions do not agree on any formal process for conversion into the religion, roughly the same share (0.8%) say they werenot raised Hindu but now identify as Hindu.5Most of these new followers of Hinduism are married to Hindus. It is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts. Billy Graham on his lasting legacy", "The Presidents' preacher: From Truman to Trump", "John F. Kennedy, Billy Graham: irrecoverable moments in 1963", "America's Pastor: At 74, Billy Graham Begins to Sum Up, Regrets and All", "Why Is Abortion Such a Big Issue For Christians? (For additional findings on belief in God, see Chapter 12.). Ferri M, Amato L, Davoli M. Alcoholics anonymous and other 12-step programmes for alcohol dependence. Across Tennessees 95 counties, a church or faith-based organization is the only civic institution common in all counties: So, we figure thats a perfect vehicle to drive information into the community and teach people that you dont have to be an addiction counselor to help somebody whos an addict, said Monty Burks (in Vance 2016, paragraph 21). Data was weighted to account for the different probabilities of selection among respondents and to align with demographic benchmarks for the Indian adult population from the 2011 census. On May 31, 2007, the $27million Billy Graham Library was officially dedicated in Charlotte. In some regions of the country, significant shares of people perceive widespread, caste-based discrimination. [57] In 1997, there was approximately 10 million Turks living in Western Europe and the Balkans (i.e. Faith-based organizations are eligible to compete for government grants on the same basis as all other non-governmental organizations. Graham prepared one last sermon, "My Hope America", which was released on DVD and played around America and possibly worldwide between November 710, 2013. I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. If we were to count each one of these members as a life saved and then apply the same VSL used by the CEA (2017) (i.e., low, $5.4 million; middle, $9.6 million; and high, $13.4 million) to estimate the cost associated with overdose mortality, this would equal a low estimate of $7.0 trillion, a middle of $12.5 trillion, and a high of $17.4 trillion. Hamza, Gabor, Zur Rolle des Islam in der Geschichte des ungarischen Rechts. It drew one of the largest crowds in Tennessee of protesters against the Vietnam War. Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of American (CADCA). [46], At each Urbana conference, he challenged the thousands of attendees to make a commitment to follow Jesus Christ for the rest of their lives. (2007), 86% of people reaching this threshold tend to remain sober. This section will describe and provide examples of each. National Library of Medicine (2010) found that up to 82% of clients who experienced a spiritual awakening during substance abuse treatment and recovery were completely abstinent at a 1-year follow-up compared with 55% of non-spiritually awakened clients. [10], In October 2018, Malhotra was appointed as honorary visiting professor at the Centre for Media Studies at Jawharlal Nehru University, Delhi. People in the South also are less segregated by religion or caste whether that involves their friendship circles, the kind of neighbors they prefer or how they feel about intermarriage. [116], A 2013 study conducted by Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin fr Sozialforschung (WZB) found that Islamic fundamentalism was widespread among Muslims in Europe. Koenig and colleagues (op. the Turk) wins (converts) by craft more than by force, and snatches away Christ by fraud out of the hearts of men. [39] There are accounts of the trade connections between Muslims and the Rus', apparently people from the Baltic region who made their way towards the Black Sea through Central Russia. CDC WONDER database. For instance, the supportive, helping behaviors encouraged by A.A. were seen by members as an expression of spirituality in the recovery context (Zemore et al. People who use PRC tend to seek spiritual support and meaning when inflicted by traumatic events; by contrast, people who resort to negative religious coping (NRC) can have a hard time recovering, as they experience spiritual complications and express doubt about the issues of God and faith. (+1) 202-419-4372 | Media Inquiries. 2004). Combining these data with age- and gender-specific mortality data (Xu et al. [141] According to her obituary, Ruth was active in Christian ministry after they married, often teaching Sunday School. With no net migration, the projected level was 7%; with high migration, it was 14%. Orr RD. [172] Titled "Thank You Billy Graham", the song's video[173] was introduced by Bono,[172] and included Faith Hill, MxPx,[170] John Ford Coley, John Elefante, Mike Herrera, Michael McDonald, Jeffrey Osborne, LeAnn Rimes, Kenny Rogers, Connie Smith, Michael Tait, and other singers, with brief narration by Larry King. Franklin denied this, and said that he would continue to act as his father's spokesperson rather than allowing press conferences. Of the 185 studies identified, 84% found that faith reduced the risks of drug abuse and only two (1.4%) found that faith contributed to drug abuse. Lipka Tatar Muslims of Belarus and PolandLithuania. He voiced fear of a second holocaust, not against Jews, but "a nuclear holocaust" and advised that "our greatest contribution to world peace is to live with Christ every day. [15] Graham was raised on a family dairy farm with his two younger sisters, Catherine Morrow and Jean and a younger brother, Melvin Thomas. Johnson, B. R., Tompkins, R. B., & Webb, D. (2002). U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Pennington has further charged that Malhotra systematically misrepresents the relationship between Hinduism and Christianity, arguing that in Malhotra's hands, "Christian and Indic traditions are reduced to mere cartoons of themselves. [87] In August 2005, Graham appeared at the groundbreaking for his library in Charlotte, North Carolina. At one point, Johnson even considered making Graham a member of his cabinet and grooming him to be his successor, though Graham insisted he had no political ambitions and wished to remain a preacher. government site. [61], Following Graham's death, former SCLC official and future Atlanta politician Andrew Young (who spoke alongside Coretta Scott King at Graham's 1994 crusade in Atlanta),[69] acknowledged his friendship with Graham and stated that Graham did in fact travel with King to the 1965 European Baptist Convention. [125] His alma mater, Wheaton College, has an archive of his papers at the Billy Graham Center. Native American communities have used modifications of the steps to address the historical trauma they have experienced that contributes to their increased rates of depression, drug use, and addiction (see Acker 2017). [3][4] While teaching at the school in Sussex, Everett contracted polio, and was told by his physicians that he would never walk again. In a 1997 interview with Robert Schuller, Graham said, I think that everybody that loves or knows Christ, whether they are conscious of it or not, they are members of the body of Christ [God] is calling people out of the world for his name, whether they come from the Muslim world, or the Buddhist world or the non-believing world, they are members of the Body of Christ because they have been called by God. The role of religion in predicting adolescent alcohol use and problem drinking. [121] In the United Kingdom, authorities estimate that 23000 jihadists reside in the country, of which about 3000 are actively monitored. However, a recent study shows that this perception significantly declined after the emergence of ISIS, particularly among the youth, and highly educated European Muslims. Finally, they do not represent the actual number of people in congregational programs, which likely equals or exceeds the A.A. membership figure. [26] Nachman Helbrans and four other leaders of Lev Tahor were arrested in Mexico in December 2018 in a joint operation between Interpol and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. To date, over 5 million individuals are reported to have completed a Celebrate Recovery Step Study (Celebrate Recovery n.d.). Sikhs in India also incorporate other religious traditions into their practice. Puffer ES, Skalski LM, Meade CS. [72], Graham's faith prompted his maturing view of race and segregation. (n.d.c.). Hodge DR. Alcohol treatment and cognitive-behavioral therapy: Enhancing effectiveness by incorporating spirituality and religion. As a proxy, the A.A.s surveys, in combination with other data summarized in Table2, are particularly useful for making valuation of religious and spiritual substance abuse recovery programs, mainly because many A.A. groups meet in churches and other faith congregations (see the Spiritual but Not Religious Substance Abuse Recovery (Ex. Perceived discrimination is a marginal predictor of religious fundamentalism. This figure is nearly identical to the 85% who strongly value religious tolerance among those who are not at all concerned with stopping interreligious marriage. [142][non-primary source needed], Graham talked his future wife, Ruth, into abandoning her ambition to evangelize in Tibet in favor of staying in the United States to marry him and that to do otherwise would be "to thwart God's obvious will". [45] He appeared most frequently on Gallup's list of most admired people. This is in contrast to philia, brotherly love, or philautia, self-love, as it embraces a deep and profound sacrificial love that transcends and persists regardless of circumstance. In Christianity, agape (/ p e, p e, -/; from Ancient Greek (agp)) is "the highest form of love, charity" and "the love of God for man and of man for God". [12] Graham recalled in his autobiography that during this time, he and King developed a close friendship and that he was eventually one of the few people who referred to King as "Mike", a nickname which King asked only his closest friends to call him. Nearly all religious groups show the same patterns. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). [19], In early 2000s Malhotra started writing articles criticising Wendy Doniger and related scholars, claiming that she applied Freudian psycho-analysis to aspects of Indian culture. Rather than an Indian perspective on itself and the world, these scholars promote a perspective on India using worldviews which are hostile to India's interests. [76] Graham invited Stott to be chief architect of the Lausanne Covenant, which issued from the Congress and which, according to Graham: "helped challenge and unite evangelical Christians in the great task of world evangelization. Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World, Religion in India: Tolerance and Segregation, How Indians View Gender Roles in Families and Society, Indias Sex Ratio at Birth Begins To Normalize, described as promoting a Hindu nationalist ideology, demonstrations broke out in parts of New Delhi, accompanied by violence, rioting and looting, faced discrimination and unequal economic opportunities, reserved seats in universities and government jobs, People in the South differ from rest of the country in their views of religion, national identity, Near-universal belief in God, but wide variation in how God is perceived, Next: 1. groups are self-supporting and do not accept contributions from non-A.A. members, and, most importantly, because they are locally administered, each group may have a slightly different character. 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