this article is a study on the religious approach of pre-safavid iranian muslim miniaturists to female depiction based on quranic verses and other religious narratives. this article is to find the way of visual reflecting female admired qualifications based on islam view at original and novel miniatures. assuming that mentioned visual reflection is based on quranic and religious narratives or h...

physical health is influenced by various factors including religion. there are many questions regarding the impact of religious activities on physical health. therefore, the aim of this study was to find the correlation between physical health and religion. various databases including pubmed, ovid, and medline were investigated. considering the inclusion criteria, 50 studies were found using th...

there have been a lot of arguments about body in pre-modern literature in different disciplines such as christian religious and theological debates. such debates argue that body is considered as a negative element with the potentiality of committing sin and preventing the elevation of spirit. these arguments are followed by western philosophy of mind/ body paradox, which is itself followed by o...

Van Leeuwen (2014) claims religious credences are not factual beliefs. He holds that while factual beliefs alone (i) guide behavior in all relevant practical settings, (ii) support inferences between religious credences and (iii) are evidentially vulnerable; religious credences instead (a) have a perceived normative orientation, (b) are open to free elaboration and (c) are vulnerable to special...

This article explores the application of narratology and possible worlds theory in study religious literature Indonesia. It begins by providing an overview how these approaches can be applied to narratives. The significance Indonesia is then discussed, highlighting role that narratives play shaping beliefs practices. use Islamic epics, Javanese mystical texts, Balinese Hindu demonstrating compl...

theoretical expectations. The assumption is that along with modernization and economic development, adherence to religious world views (seen to be a relic of the past) gradually dissipate, as they have in other advanced societies. But they haven’t in the United States. In fact, the importance of religious commitments and religious organizations to American society increased over the last severa...