In this article, we show tow examples for the application of pedestrian flow simulation and analysis: the World Youth Day 2005 in Cologne and the egress (non-emergency) from a football stadium. Various circumstances are specific for religious events. The persons might perform rituals and therefore the pat-terns of movement or gathering are governed by rules that go beyond simple necessity or co...

The article analyses the employment of words, images and rituals, in early years Italian Republic, to reinforce militarization Public Security Guard (Corpo delle Guardie di Pubblica Sicurezza) engender public support for hard-line military-type solutions law-and-order difficulties. Drawing on police literature (especially magazine Guard, Polizia Moderna), newspapers cinema newsreels, it commemo...

Trans children have become more visible in primary schools recent years. Arising from a qualitative study with twelve parents of trans (aged 5–13) and six school educators Ireland, this paper explores how experience two very different forms celebratory rituals that are entangled life schools: birthday celebrations religious rituals. These experienced as moments affectively intense rupture for c...

Why does the festival of Christmas appear to be expanding worldwide while other festivals decline? Why do people emphasize their local rituals, given this is a global festival? Is this a religious festival whose values have been destroyed by materialism? What is the relationship between this family celebratory meal and the divine family to which it pays obeisance? These seemed to be questions t...

Historically, obsessions and compulsions have been mentioned in the religious and nonscientific literature for centuries. Obsessivecompulsive features are not only present in individuals, but constitute an important part of collective rituals and ceremonies including magic and superstition (Meyer, 1968). The purpose of this paper will be focused on the medical aspects of obsessions and compulsi...

Overview Definitions of Terms Grief Bereavement Mourning Types of Grief Reactions Anticipatory Grief Normal or Common Grief Stage Models of Normal Grief Patterns of Complicated Grief Prolonged or Complicated Grief as a Mental Disorder Risk Factors for Complicated Grief and Other Negative Bereavement Outcomes Situational: Expected or Unexpected Death Personal: Personality Characteristics Persona...

The Ese'eja is a hunter-fisher-gatherer tribe of Amerindians which occupies the south-eastern part of Perú. Their culture cannot be disassociated from religious beliefs. Disease can be caused by accident, distraction or indolence, or by evil powers. These evil powers come either from the direct action of a harmful shaman or by interactions with the Devil. A description of shamanic practices is ...

Popularly considered a great equalizer, death and the rituals around it nevertheless accentuate social distinctions. The present study focuses on a sample (N = 2554) of death announcements in a major Turkish daily newspaper (Hürriyet) from 1970 to 2006. Out of the liminal position of Turkish death announcements between obituaries and death notices emerges a large decentralized collection of pri...

Bioethics initially emerged from theological thinking, as part of the consistent development of the defense of the beliefs of the movement when faced with the challenges of the social progressivism of techno-scientific expansion and the cultural secularization of the West. As a result of this process, liberal social norms and legislation have emerged in many Western nations, including those tha...