The COVID-19 crisis truly challenged social interaction, the use of space and objects, as well our sense purpose meaning in life. In this context, religious communities faced sudden interruption their usual activities, lack access to communal spaces a global epidemic that summoned ancient “medieval plague” anxieties work with. This article focuses on vast repertoire adaptations reactions severa...

Rituals, particularly religious rituals, may play a significant role in times of crises. Often, these rituals undergo revision to adapt the changing needs time. This article investigates recent unofficially revised Hindu as performed during COVID-19 pandemic. The multifarious creative interplay between tradition and change is illustrated through four cases: festival Durga Puja, devotional songs...

How much did medieval lay people know about Christianity? Which religious observances were expected of them? Recent studies have often suggested that ecclesiastical expectations of the laity were relatively low overall, even if some laypeople exceeded these basic requirements. For example Norman Tanner and Sethina Watson have argued that although medieval churchmen had high aspirations for the ...

praying is a socio-religious action, either from “religious sociology” (religious looking on society) or” sociology of religion” (sociological looking on religion).this social and spiritual action has few features: it is an effective action, for its positive implication on prayer’s everyday life; it is a continued action, for it is current in all dimensions of prayer’s activities; and finally, ...

The purpose of this paper is to explain the use holy book (Bible) in healing rituals performed by Tona'as Minahasa, and aims for several groups local belief adherents Minahasa carry out that those who do not There are pros cons rituals. In experience people, religious books process carrying has had cons, but problematic situation made disappear implementation Religious cannot be separated from ...

Increasing evidence suggests that mundane knowledge about objects, people, and events is grounded in the brain’s modality-specific systems. The modality-specific representations that become active to represent these entities in actual experience are later used to simulate them in their absence. In particular, simulations of perception, action, and mental states often appear to underlie the repr...

Western psychotherapy and indigenous shamanic healing systems have both used psychoactive drugs or plants for healing and obtaining knowledge (called "diagnosis" or "divination" respectively). While there are superficial similarities between psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy and shamanic healing with hallucinogenic plants, there are profound differences in the underlying worldview and concepti...