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Pharmacological Tobacco Cessation Treatments: Proposals for Financing

2008; Elsevier BV; Volume: 44; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s1579-2129(09)60018-5

1885-6195

Carlos A. Jiménez-Ruíz, Juan Antonio Riesco Miranda, Ángela Ramos Pinedo, Miguel Barrueco Ferrero, Segismundo Solano Reina, José Ignacio de Granda Orive, Jesús Grávalos Guzmán, Lourdes Ramos Casado, A. Pérez Trullén, Karl Fagerström,

Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research

Achieving self-knowledge and authentic selfhood are significant existential concerns. Experiencing these states subjectively is associated with meaning in life and other forms of well-being; conversely, people may develop anxiety, depression, or other pathologies in the absence of these states. This chapter considers how religion and spirituality might relate to issues of authenticity and self-knowledge, focusing on three central aspects of religion: (1) having religious or spiritual experiences; (2) holding religious beliefs; and (3) participating in religious communities. There are many possible connections between each of these domains and that of authentic experience, and it seems that religion has the potential to both contribute to and detract from subjective experiences of authenticity. A central conclusion of our analysis is that moral functioning (including both moral judgment and action) is a primary domain in which religion and authenticity intersect, and that focusing on this domain may be the best avenue to understand how religion and authentic experience bear on each other. Where possible, direct empirical evidence is presented, but as the intersection of religion and authenticity has not been systematically studied, some of this chapter’s content is speculative, and recommendations for future research are included throughout.