Sacred Journeys: Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

Pilgrimage Places and Sacred Geometries

The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys.

What do you do to start reading the psychedelic explorers guide safe therapeutic and sacred journeys? Searching the book that you love to read first or find an interesting book that will make you want to read? Everybody has difference with their reason of reading a book. Actuary, reading habit must be from earlier. Many people may be love to read, but not a book. It's not fault. Someone will be...

Signaling, Solidarity, and the Sacred: The Evolution of Religious Behavior

Many challenges confront evolutionary scholars of religion. The origins and adaptive value of religion and the conditions that selected for its evolution are difficult to discern. Patterns of religious behavior, like other areas of human social behavior, have undergone significant change over our evolutionary history. Evans-Pritchard1 argued that dramatic historical changes in religious behavio...

Sacrifi ce and Sacred Values: Evolutionary Perspectives on Religious Terrorism

Evolutionary theories of religion and sacred values are essential for understanding current trends in terrorist activity. We clarify religion’s role in facilitating terror and outline recent theoretical developments that focus on four cross-culturally recurrent features of religion: communal participation in costly ritual, belief in supernatural agents and counterintuitive concepts, separation ...

Affective journeys: the emotional structuring of medical tourism in India.

This paper examines the grid of sentiment that structures medical travel to India. In contrast to studies that render emotion as ancillary, the paper argues that affect is fundamental to medical travel's ability to ease the linked somatic, emotional, financial, and political injuries of being ill 'back home'. The ethnographic approach follows the scenes of medical travel within the Indian corpo...