By the early twentieth century, Britain and all of its Atlantic colonies prohibited the “pretended” use of supernatural powers or rituals such as fortunetelling, obeah, sorcery, and witchcraft. Legislators and others policymakers throughout the Anglophone Atlantic justified these proscriptions using similar narratives; they described occult practitioners as charlatans and vagabonds. Metropolita...

The COVID-19 pandemic has altered life dramatically, including grieving practices. This study examines how people grieved death when they were unable to engage in traditional mourning rituals. Participants shared ways their experiences with grief affected by the through themes of (1) physical isolation, feeling together while apart, and, (2) challenges management, like lack nonverbal communicat...

Most reports of drug treatment for obsessivecompulsive neurosis concern one tricyclic antidepressant, namely clomipramine. Early suggestions that the drug might be valuable in this condition were based on uncontrolled and/or short-term studies over only a few weeks (Fernandez and Lopez-Ibor, 1967; Beaumont, 1973; Capstick, 1975; Ananth et al., 1978). A recent controlled study with long-term fol...

This paper examines the utilization of mantra light and its associated maṇḍala practices by Wang Hongyuan 王弘願 (1876–1937), a Chinese Buddhist during Republican Period, his adherents, which has not yet been noticed previous scholars. With import esoteric doctrines from Japan, light, was rarely used in pre-modern China, gained renewed significance. led to widespread adoption ritual this surroundi...

this study is a description about the development of ceremonies and rituals and also the formation of religious system and the type of its opposition with the political system, after the official declaration of asna ashari (twelve imams) shiism in the safavid dynasty. the author believes that at least four development periods can be considered in iranian rituals in the safavid era. the first pe...

This paper investigates how the use of horse and bull iconography in Occitan Provençal Catholic cemeteries facilitates expression a more-than-human regional identity and, thereby, challenges boundaries that separate humans from nonhuman world. The presence nonhumans way process understand death across faiths cultures is often explained by fact humans, as they deal with death, need to make sense...

On the basis of data extracted from a longterm experiment with a robotic user interface, the paper discusses prerequisites and functions of interaction rituals.

zoroastrian’s purification rituals are one of the most visible aspects of zoroastrianism that root in the avesta’s texts. but it seems that these customs which were considered as a preservative of human communities from harm and evil diseases in the pre-zoroastrian period, have been changed after that period of time and their joining to the religious teachings of zoroasterian. in this paper, at...

This article works with theory of ritual in order to begin addressing a series of questions raised by Brazilian spirit possession rituals (in Kardecism and Umbanda). Four contributions to theory of ritual highlight relevant conceptual issues: Humphrey and Laidlaw on non-intentionality; Bloch on deference; Houseman and Severi on social relations; and Kapferer on virtuality. Strawson’s philosophi...

Statistical rituals largely eliminate statistical thinking in the social sciences. Rituals are indispensable for identification with social groups, but they should be the subject rather than the procedure of science. What I call the “null ritual” consists of three steps: (1) set up a statistical null hypothesis, but do not specify your own hypothesis nor any alternative hypothesis, (2) use the ...