We offer here the first of two special sections on theme "Hymns Beyond Congregation." Divided into sub-themes “Hymns Congregation: Constructions Identity,” and Legacies Meaning,” our authors (based in institutions both USA UK) comprise early career senior scholars come from a range disciplinary backgrounds American history, South African colonial political history mission education, historical ...

In 1866, Bishop John William Colenso published a collection of hymns which he compiled for use at St Peter’s Cathedral in Pietermaritzburg. He had recently returned to Natal from England after defending himself the legal debates surrounded his status as Natal. His controversial commentaries on Romans and Pentateuch been catalyst denouncement by metropolitan bishop, Robert Gray. While England, G...

The Vedic Personality Inventory was devised to assess the validity of the Vedic concept of the three gunas or modes of nature as a psychological categorization system. The sample of 619 subjects included persons of varying ages and occupations from a middle-size city in southeastern United States, and also of subscribers to a magazine focusing on Eastern-style spirituality. The original 90-item...

This paper presents Multiply and Accumulate (MAC) unit design using Vedic Multiplier, which is based on Urdhva Tiryagbhyam Sutra. The paper emphasizes an efficient 32-bit MAC architecture along with 8-bit and 16-bit versions and results are presented in comparison with conventional architectures. The efficiency in terms of area and speed of proposed MAC unit architecture is observed through red...

Convolution and Deconvolution is having wide area of application in Digital Signal Processing. Convolution helps to estimate the output of a system with arbitrary input, with knowledge of impulse response of the system. Linear systems characteristics are completely specified by the systems impulse response, as governed by the mathematics of convolution. And with the knowledge of impulse respons...

The article is an introduction to the edition of Old Latin versions book Daniel. After a brief presentation manuscripts (those biblical and those hymns), Greek texts are presented (Theodotion LXX). next chapter studies division into visions. hymns then analyzed: hymn Three Young Men, Azariah, Divine Transcendence. types text subject chapter: from origins (X) Jerome's version (H V), passing thro...

the principles and practice of sustainability have gained momentum in the last 15 years and now form a central part of conversations around social praxis and the future. it has been proposed that the theories driving sustainability science are embedded in indigenous history, and it has been shown that many ancient traditions always concerned themselves with sustainable and ethical living. among...