Rituals are found in all types of performance domains, from high-stakes athletics and military to the daily morning preparations of the working family. Yet despite their ubiquity and widespread importance for humans, we know very little of ritual's causal basis and how (if at all) they facilitate goal-directed performance. Here, in a fully pre-registered pre/post experimental design, we examine...

BACKGROUND In Israel, virtually all children undergo circumcision in the neonatal period. Traditionally, it is commonly performed by a "Mohel" (ritual circumciser) but lately there is an increasing tendency among the educated secular population to prefer a medical procedure performed by a physician and with local anesthetic injection. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the outcome of this procedure and t...

Activities relating to the discovery of local history, revival of rituals, and modification of traditional knowledge that are undertaken in local communities or associations have placed the reflection on the role and significance of heritage practices in contemporary society under scrutiny. We are becoming increasingly aware that heritage activities play an important role in the development of ...

Novel Janji is one the novels that tell story of journey a religious school child who looking for former student decades ago. The author describes children being able to search someone disappeared ago according their teacher’s instructions. This study uses literary sociological analysis approach. results show in novel contains five dimensions religiosity, namely dimension belief, ritual, experi...

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...