The article offers an analysis of ethical concepts in Russian religious-didactic literature the 17th century. main sources are alphabets published Moscow. There were two printed by Vasily Burtsov, and alphabet Karion Istomin, as well “Azbuka s oratsiey” (Alphabet with Didactics), manuscript “Alfavititsy didaskala” (Small Alphabet a Teacher). These can be considered because addition to grammar, ...

BACKGROUND The experience of 'sensed presence'-a feeling or sense that another entity, individual or being is present despite no clear sensory or perceptual evidence-is known to occur in the general population, appears more frequently in religious or spiritual contexts, and seems to be prominent in certain psychiatric or neurological conditions and may reflect specific functions of social cogni...

In the last decade, a number of studies have shown the success of spiritual medicine. These studies come from a wide number of fields and deal with many aspects of religious and spiritual practice. A recent study by Koenig et al (1999), looking at a population of nearly four thousand 65 year-old people over a six-year period, was able to show that those who go to church at least once a week are...

There has been numerous studies designed to assess the effects of religion on the psychological well-being of older adults. However, reviewing the literature reveals that currently the empirical work is inconsistent and often contradictory on this issue. The current study is designed to examine the effects of religiosity on psychological well-being in older adults. Psychological well-being will...

The papers in this issue arose from a conference on the Psychological and Cognitive Foundations of Religiosity that took place at Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) in August, 2003.1 This conference brought together scholars from ten nations and six disciplines (psychology, anthropology, religious studies, biology, philosophy, and cognitive science) to explore new developments at the interface...

Literature morality relation has remained a point of vital critical debate since the ancient civilization. In the twentieth Century this question has continued ton inspire critical debate despite phenomenal decline in religious and moral aspect of life. But literature and morality relationship is complex and oscillates between complete interdependence to dissociation of such a relation. The stu...

Descriptions of the human anatomy derived from religious texts are often omitted from the medical literature. The present review aims to discuss the comments and commentaries made regarding the heart and cardiovascular system as found in the Qur'an and Hadeeth. Based on this review, it is clear that these early sources both had a good comprehension of these parts of the body.

françois mauriac, a scholar and a famous french author and the winner of the nobel prize in literature, , unlike any of his contemporaries is not known in iran. in this article, it has been attempted to know him better on the basis of his viewpoints toward two famous contemporaries, andré gide and marcel proust. mauriac believes that these two writers incorporated a detailed reflection of relig...