the article, at first, deals with eliade’s phenomenology that is in contrast with reductionist methods. then, it explains the key concept in eliade work, namly, sacred. in relation to this, author concentrates on concepts of time and place in archaic religion. he says that archaic people with their belief in sacred place imitate works of gods and regulate the world. then, it deals with ontology...

Aim: An ethnomedicinal study was carried out to document the medicinal plants used by ethnic and local villagers around the Veyilingalakona sacred grove located in the eastern ghats of Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh, India. Methods: Ethnobotanical interviews were carried out on medicinal plants used to treat common ailments based on structural questionnaire with the local people and ethnic (...

"Soul surfers" consider surfing to be a profoundly meaningful practice that brings physical, psychological, and spiritual benefits. They generally agree on where surfing initially developed, that it assumed a religious character, was suppressed for religious reasons, has been undergoing a revival, and enjoins reverence for and protection of nature. This subset of the global surfing community sh...

This paper is premised on several Australian Aboriginal myths (or sacred histories) from the Georgina River Basin region of Central Australia that concern the Triodia grasses known locally as spinifex (or aywerte). These sacred histories provide an epistemological foundation to the regional intellectual property over traditional spinifex technologies utilized for architectural, material and med...

This paper explores the meanings of ‘Body’ and ‘Spirit’ in relation to one of the most important personages in Hohodene cosmology, the spirit “Keeper of Sickness and Sorcery”, named Kuwai. [“Yurupary” in lingua geral] This Great Spirit is an extraordinarily complex synthesis of the Hohodene (and other Baniwa, northern Arawak-speaking peoples) worldview. His ‘Body’ was full of holes from which t...

Oleh Bolyuk’s book is an impressive work in terms of content and editing. Enclosed hardcovers, navy blue with gold embellishments, 260 A3-size half-chalk pages, nearly 450 color black-and-white illustrations the margins as well inserted into text, it entices its enviably beautiful layout extreme editorial diligence. At this point, worth emphasizing fact that Ukraine, researchers often have to a...

The Policeman in the Community by Michael Banton is viewed as a seminal work in the Anglo-American sociological study of the police. This article – which draws on and cites a personal dialogue with Banton himself sets this work in context by outlining the intellectual formation of its author in the 1950s, before setting out the main theoretical and methodological aspects of this study. It is ar...