and necromancy; and magic as entertainment. Readers of this journal will be particularly interested in her section on medical magic. Jolly explains that this was an especially "fuzzy" area. Medieval medicine embraced both a material and spiritual understanding of illness in which physical and religious factors played a part. Within this context, it is often difficult to distinguish magical medi...

The present review will be concerned with the relationships between religion and health. Our principal purpose will be to review the empirical research literature on this relationship, relating different forms of religious participation, especially religious service attendance, to various health outcomes. However, we will also briefly consider theological and religious traditions and themes con...

the main purpose of this study is to comparative of two alternative approaches capabilities in the field of religious education pathology. salafism and fundamentalism is moving toward quasi education in religious education; but religious traditionalism and post revivalism can be adopted an alternative approach to religious education. critical analysis and interpretation of concept method used i...

The article investigates the value of Wolfgang Iser’s concept of repertoire for reading the apocryphal story of Susanna. The viewpoint is that fictional literature such as the Susanna narrative and reality are not opposites of each other, but that fictional texts tell us something about reality. The investigation will also include Peter L. Berger’s theory on how religion contributes to construc...

My purpose in this essay is to explore religious experience and religious thought and the relation between the two, for how these two are conceived has an important bearing on how we understand the meaningfulness of religion and religious traditions. My starting point is Peter Berger's recent work. The Heretical Imperative (Anchor/Doubleday, 1980), in which he summarizes the various strategies ...

The parallels between the cults of Elizabeth Hungary and Aragon motivated realization this article. Thus, we intend to observe a set sources verify in which ways images both saints were shaped they portrayed, considering religious panorama Late Middle Ages, time that favored proliferation various spiritual currents along European continent.We aim an analysis their hagiografical texts as well mi...

Tamil language and literature have flourished with speeches composed by speechwriters. Are greatly aiding researchers who think innovatively. Texts serve as a bridge between linguistic research e-literary criticism. The texts convey how the has changed over time, well living conditions, political changes customs of people. This article explores history textual ability Nachinarkiniyar. Nachinark...

The present study investigated the relationship between spiritual struggles and various types of psychopathology symptoms in individuals who had and had not suffered from a recent illness. Participants completed self-report measures of religious variables and symptoms of psychopathology. Spiritual struggles were assessed by a measure of negative religious coping. As predicted, negative religiou...

Both ancient and modern apocrypha have already been widely discussed in various fields of academic research, for example religious, biblical or literary studies. Although such analyses say much about the historical religious background apocryphal writings enable us to discover depth symbolic resources used texts, they do not fully reveal cultural impact canon. That is why a broader analysis bot...