In this article, the Kurban rite (animal sacrifice), which occupies an important place in Gagauz calendar and family rituals, is analyzed through prism of Orthodox identity. The form content various varieties are considered, as well its role significance ethnocultural code people. author especially dwells on study qurban church, elements Christian-pagan syncretism clearly manifested. Based anal...

Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the impact religious rituals on cultural identity- a review relationship between practices and belonging.
 Methodology: adopted desktop research methodology. Desk refers secondary data or that which can be collected without fieldwork. is basically involved in collecting from existing resources hence it often considered low cost technique as...

Anthropological interest in giving, including religious charity, has grown in recent years. However, studies of philanthropy have largely been confined to activities relating to humanto-human sociality. By contrast, this article explores conceptions of giving and acts of charity from the perspective of interactions between the living and the dead. Drawing on Buddhist traditions and popular ritu...

Scholarly work on the conquest of Muslim cities in so-called Castilian Reconquista has focused largely political consequences rather than rituals. Against previous background, this article turns attention toward civil and religious rituals associated with Christian as an expression triumph. Among these rituals, conversion congregational mosques been discussed chronicles liturgical books that re...

Since the Sassanid era, many reliefs and seals have left and by reviewing their designs, the mythical and religious attitudes of those people can be understood. The purpose of this article is to decode and interpret the symbolic paintings and to review and study the myths, concepts, and religious rituals of this period. The question is that what the divine and human origin of the symbolic paint...

BACKGROUND Many patients with heart failure grapple with related problems that threaten their feeling of well-being and quality of life. Patients look for ways to cope with the new situation. The present study aimed to explore religious coping from the perspective of patients with heart failure. METHODS This qualitative study used the content analysis of the semi-structured interviews. The da...

religion, as a social phenomenon, affects society and is affected by it interactively. in iran, basically with religious norms and laws, many scholars and researchers concern with religion and level of religiosity. the paper is a comparative analysis of level of religiosity based on glynn and stark’s dimensions of religiosity, in three different generations in sari city: first generation (pre-r...

Death and Social Order in Tokugawa Japan is a very important book providing a detailed explanation of a vital part of early modern Japanese Buddhism that goes a long way to putting in perspective how the religious tradition functions in the contemporary world. To put in context the contributions of the book, it can be noted that visitors to Japan who are curious about the role of Buddhism in re...

MDST123 Escaping Purgatory: Music and Devotion in Medieval Europe This course will explore the creative expression of religious belief in the music, poetry, literature, art, and architecture of Medieval Europe. We will begin with the everyday experience of monks, nuns, poets, and street musicians. What role did music play in their lives? Was it limited to religious practice and secular festival...

Why is it so easy to ignore the ecological and economic crises of the Anthropocene? This article unveils some of the religious biases whose covert operation facilitates the repression or rejection of warnings about the consequences of extreme climate change and excessive capitalist consumption. The evolved defaults that are most relevant for our purposes here have to do with mental credulity to...