Todd LeVasseur is afraid. Only a few pages into the preface of Climate Change, Religion, and Our Bodily Future he writes: “The more I sit with unfolding scenarios each updated study about real-time predicated impacts climate change, scared become” (xvi). may well be scared, but this book masterwork sober exacting theory dynamized by vigorous searing critique religious studies, academy, higher e...

T his issue of Injury Prevention is scheduled for distribution at the 7th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion in Vienna. Barring the predictably unpredictable quirks of publishing, each delegate will have received a copy. Many can still recall the first conference in Sweden 15 or so years ago, and some will have attended each successive meeting. The total of attendees, pa...

patients’ healthcare as medicine. Racial or ethnic discrimination is illegal in the UK under the Race Relations Act 1976. Since 2nd October 2000, religious and cultural discrimination (or lack of consideration or respect) has also become illegal under the Human Rights Act 1998, Article 9, which ensures that everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion.1 As a result, per...

extended abstract 1. introduction tourism is one of the most efficient processes used to encourage economic growth in countries that due to producing single product or limited energy sources have motionless and vulnerable economic system. in other words, tourism in modern terms is considered a phenomenon which is an inseparable part of today’s industrial society and is an important “ring” in th...

Votive objects or actions, which are widely referred to as ex-votos, are made in thanksgiving to deities or miraculous beings for graces received. In an ex-voto, the completion of the vow constitutes a votive offering. The process of promising and completing a votive acts as a coping mechanism utilized both by individuals and by their communities. This article explores the votive traditions and...

The philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark has argued that humans have always been ‘natural-born cyborgs,’ that is, they have always collaborated and merged with non-biological props and aids in order to find better environments for thinking. These ‘mindware’ upgrades (I borrow the term ‘mindware’ from Clark, 2001) extend beyond the fusions of the organic and technological that posthuma...

Anthropologists have spilt much ink deconstructing concepts inherited from the Enlightenment. Religion, possibly most misleading such concept, has proved highly resistant to acid of cross-cultural comparison. Debates about nature religion go back sociocultural anthropology's beginnings as a discipline and beyond. Proposed definitions been numerous, but none come close universal acceptance, main...

Much study of ritual has focused on demarcated spaces and times performance, the often spectacular features such collective behaviour provide rich resources for analysis formal, symbolically dense action. This article shifts attention to dimensions events that entail zones ambiguous, diffuse, or limited engagement where boundaries between participant non-participant, viewer viewed, may be uncle...

In ancient cultures all over the world, summer and winter solstices and equinoxes had a great importance. These astronomical events had been widely considered in the planning of monuments and other architectures. But in the zone of the Earth delimited by the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, we can see another relevant event, the zenith passage of the sun. In this paper we will show that several...

In their article "The Practice of PR and the Canterbury Pilgrims" Jay Ruud and Stacey Jones argue that the concepts of relationship management discussed by public relations scholars can be applied to the study of literary characters, specifically here to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, The Wife of Bath, and The Pardoner. Essentially, what PR scholars call the expression of communal relationship val...