Religious ritual contested: anti-religious activities and women’s ritual practice in rural Soviet Karelia

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

Religious Ritual and Cooperation: Testing for a Relationship on Israeli Religious and Secular Kibbutzim

Anthropologists have long noted that one of the primary functions of religion is to promote group solidarity, and most have recognized ritual as the mechanism through which this solidarity is achieved. Guided by Durkheim (1995 [1912]), who was among the first to appreciate the unifying nature of religious ritual, functionalists have explored how ritual sustains the social order within a communi...

Children's religious knowledge: implications for understanding satanic ritual abuse allegations.

OBJECTIVES The goals of the present study were to examine the extent of children's religious, especially satanic, knowledge and to understand the influence of children's age, religious training, family, and media exposure on that knowledge. METHODS Using a structured interview, 48 3- to 16-year-old children were questioned about their knowledge of: (a) religion and religious worship; (b) reli...