This paper focuses on the question of how place, time, ritual, and liturgy were interconnected before, during, after trials in tenth eleventh centuries what is today Catalonia. It does so by highlighting cases that show Visigothic law heavily affected way which organized, while simultaneously leaving enough space for divine to impact legal customs. article aims showcase these dynamics, combine ...

Four studies examined whether awareness of mortality intensifies belief in supernatural agents among North Americans. In Studies 1 and 2, mortality salience led to more religiosity, stronger belief in God, and in divine intervention. In Studies 3 and 4, mortality salience increased supernatural agent beliefs even when supernatural agency was presented in a culturally alien context (divine Buddh...

In the field of hioethics, freedom and autonomy assume the ability of self-regulation and determination. If one has the ability to make one 's own decisions, then one represents an autonomous and free person. Such a view of autonomy faces many difficidties, because it idtimately limits those who can be considered autonomous. Tlie Orthodox theology of the one Hypostasis of Jesus Christ presents ...

Since ancient times, in societies throughout the world, mankind has interpreted some dreams in the context of religion – from invoking the gods into their dreams in incubation temples, to recording dream narratives in holy scriptures of religions that thrive in today’s world. This paper acknowledges that the role of dreams has diminished in many faiths, most noticeably in western Christianity, ...