this paper closely examines the persian new year's opening prayer as a literary text. regarding different communicative models, including the jacobson model, it shows that these models have never considered a place for religious communicative discourse. this paper endeavors to be a threshold for religious discourse, especially prayers. in doing so, it, first of all deals with the backgroun...

According to the authors, a new marking design for vertical scar breast reduction avoids the tension at nipple level that may occur with the use of a mosque-shaped marking (Lejour technique). Furthermore, better symmetry may be achieved in placement of the areola and nipple.

At the 2005 Kaiser Permanente National Primary Care Conference in Maui, I convened a distinguished panel, diverse in disciplines, to address the topic of meditation, prayer, and spiritual healing. The following symposium is an edited transcript of that session. Meditation in the form of a relaxation response was first brought to conventional medicine by Herbert Benson, a Harvard cardiologist in...

This article traces the intellectual history of scientific studies of intercessory prayer published in English between 1965 and the present by focusing on the conflict and discussion they prompted in the medical literature. I analyze these debates with attention to how researchers articulate the possibilities and limits medical science has for studying intercessory prayer over time. I delineate...

Introduction: health is one the greatest blessings of great lord to people. many researches have been done that analyzed relation between prayer and health that most of them was about mental health. Physical health is a dimension of life that is importance and few researches have been done about it then in this article, we want study the relationship between pray and physical health among the i...

introduction: health is one the greatest blessings of great lord to people. many researches have been done that analyzed relation between prayer and health that most of them was about mental health. physical health is a dimension of life that is importance and few researches have been done about it then in this article, we want study the relationship between pray and physical health among the i...