Long White Procession: Social Order and Liberation in a Religious Ritual

Social and Religious Functions Performed by the Ritual Speech Act of “ya Allah” in Iranian Interactions

The current study was carried out to investigate the functions of the ritual speech act of ‘ya Allah’ (literally meaning ‘O God’) employed by Iranians in social interactions. To this end, sixty-two Persian native speakers of different age groups, ranging from 35 to 85, of both genders were observed in 250 natural situations such as daily interactions, gatherings, public or private places and lo...

Cognition, Religious Ritual, and Archaeology

1 Introduction The emergence of cognitive science over the past thirty years has stimulated new approaches to traditional problems and materials in well-established disciplines. Those approaches have generated new insights and reinvigorated aspirations for theories in the sciences of the socio-cultural (about the structures and uses of symbols and the cognitive processes underlying them) that a...

Male circumcision as a religious ritual.

Congenital satellite nevi are known risk factors for neurocutaneousmelanosis.1 Their impact on the risk formalignant melanoma is not as well established, but some studies point to a possible increased risk in patients with GCMN and satellite nevi.1,3 In summary, our patient is an example of the need for continued dermatologic follow-up and high index of suspicion for newnodules appearing in pat...

the relationship between language and social capital in ilami kurdish: a sociopragmatic approach

چکیده زبان به عنوان یک وسیله در ایجاد و بازسازی سرمایه اجتماعی در چند دهه گذشته مورد توجه بوده است. اگر چه درباره سرمایه اجتماعی و سازه های مربوط به آن زیاد نوشته شده است ولی خیلی کم بر روی اینکه چطور زبان می تواند باعث ایجاد اعتماد یا بی اعتمادی بشود مطالعه ای انجام شده است. این مطالعه به منظور تحقق دو هدف انجام گرفته است. اول تلاش خواهد شد تا یک گونه شناسی از واژگانی که مردم کرد زبان شهر ا...

The Cognitive Representation of Religious Ritual Form : A Theory of Participants ' Competence with their Religious Ritual Systems