Recent research on the impact of religiosity on sexuality has highlighted the role of the individual, and suggests that the effects of religious group and sexual attitudes and fantasy may be mediated through individual differences in spirituality. The present study investigated the role of religion in an ethnically diverse young adult sample (N = 1413, 69% women) using religious group as well a...

the islamic period of the iranian history suggests that the development of the shiite art is an outcome of a continuous interaction and struggle between the political systems dominated in iran and the shiite beliefs system. historically, the situation of the shiite, as a resistance movement, has gradually changed to an established religion with its own theology. in other words, when the shiite ...

1. introduction khaghani shirvani is a well-known poet and one of the leading poets in the history of persian literature. all through his poetry books, there are numerous references to various scientific and technological terms that were popular at the time. in addition, the lyrics of khaghani abound with historical and religious allusions. his allusions to islamic and quranic narratives indica...

QAnon is an influential conspiracy theory centering on a nefarious “deep state” network. The core of the movement Q, unknown individual claiming to have classified access. This article examines one year Q’s posts. These highly texts are read by followers, who follow “crumbs” and “bake” them into conspiratorial narratives. Drawing rhetorical criticism methods, conducts baseline coding these post...

This study measured the relationship between student’s religion, gender, and propensity for fantasy thinking with the change in belief for paranormal and pseudoscientific subjects following a science and critical thinking course that directly confronted these subjects. Student pre-course endorsement of religious, paranormal, and pseudoscientific beliefs ranged from 21 to 53%, with religion havi...

The article presents the results of a semiotic analysis fictional worlds in transmedia franchises. Fictional number popular fantasy narratives as well stories about superheroes were chosen subject matter. In line with goal stated introduction, this study focuses on how visual and narrative conventions encourage circulation certain connotative meanings between various works franchise, maintainin...

People are constrained by their culture and social life when telling stories. A second language learner then cannot be expected to tell stories in the target language without cross-cultural effects that influence the way of narration. The present study examined the role of the first language (L1) and second language (L2) in the organization of narratives by focusing on Persian speakers’ and EFL...

the renowned proverb “shāhnāma axarash xoš ast” has implicit question which its answer may change our understanding of the nature and function of shāhnāma. the end of shāhnāma contains numerous tragic events in sassanid age. also it does not seem to be normal if the iranians have deemed the bitter adventure of the shahs and pahlavāns as a happy ending like what firdausi narrates at the end of h...