Lanka, and emigrate to the UK in 1981. He worked at Manor and St Ebba’s hospitals as a consultant psychiatrist in learning disabilities from 1981 until 1995. Satkunam was born in May 1926 and educated in Jaffna, Northern Sri Lanka, and qualified in medicine in Colombo. He obtained his MRCPsych in 1963, completing postgraduate study at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, and retur...

BACKGROUND The relationship between spirituality, religion and medicine has been recognized since antiquity. Despite large differences in their history, society, economy and cultures human communities shared a common belief that spirituality and religion played an important role in the healing of diseases. METHODS The study of religious remedies used by Italian folk medicine in order to treat...

We have examined the remains of a Pilgrim burial from St Mary Magdalen, Winchester. The individual was a young adult male, aged around 18-25 years at the time of death. Radiocarbon dating showed the remains dated to the late 11th-early 12th centuries, a time when pilgrimages were at their height in Europe. Several lines of evidence in connection with the burial suggested this was an individual ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is now the most common infectious cause of death worldwide. In 2014, an estimated 9.6 million people developed active TB. There were an estimated three million people with active TB including 360000 with multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) who were not diagnosed, and such people continue to fuel TB transmission in the community. Accurate data on the actual burden of TB and the tra...

This study aims to describe the religious values contained in Clean Nagari tradition Tulungagung Regency. The research location is results of show that: first, this are expecting pleasure God Almighty by making pilgrimages tombs ancestors and praying for ancestors. Second, recitation prayers at closing main event Bersih Nagari. prayer led one elders tradition. Prayer activities as a form expres...

This study reveals the da'wah of Honda Club Indonesia (HCI) community in Mojokerto, which originally focused on motorcycle activities into a forum that provides benefits to wider community. Through application social identity theory, HCI Mojokerto has succeeded developing itself as medium for and increasing knowledge understanding members surrounding research uses qualitative approach with data...

Abstract Between 1562 and 1579, the third Mughal emperor Akbar undertook 17 pilgrimages to Sufi shrine of Muinuddin Chishti in Ajmer western India. This article analyses them as a form peripatetic kingship. It studies specific actions around show how they articulated understanding monarchy, one that derived legitimacy from spiritual authority masters sacred sites. then shows strategic location ...

Abstract This article seeks to contribute recent scholarship on ritual performances in caves, sensory archaeology and journeys, stimulate fresh questions debate about society, ritual, mobility the Iberian Iron Age. It uses an updated methodology for recording interpreting – more contextually, holistically, systematically multisensory affordances of caves their landscapes embodied human movement...

Literary tourism has recently emerged as a lively field of research, especially in nineteenth-century studies. As cultural phenomenon it proved to be particularly popular the British Isles, where its origins can traced back eighteenth century. This essay analyses literary relation one England’s most renowned authors: Shakespeare. Garrick’s 1769 Jubilee is explored explain how this well-orchestr...

This contribution explores a specific form of knowledge used by pilgrim leader on the island Java which constitutes basis his religious legitimacy and political agency. By locating source in personal relationships with ancient kings Pajajaran, creates position from where he can criticise contemporary leadership Indonesia. He builds authority for this direct communication ancestors, demonstratin...