Drawing on archaeological, historical, theological, scientific and folkloric sources, Sarah Tarlow’s interdisciplinary study examines belief as it relates to the dead body in early modern Britain and Ireland. From the theological discussion of bodily resurrection to the folkloric use of body parts as remedies, and from the judicial punishment of the corpse to the ceremonial interment of the soc...

This article argues that the ecological turn towards biological mutualism enlivens our understanding of eschatological promise contained in Christ’s resurrected and ascended body. I examine implications proposing body was not only incarnate as microbiome, but also rose microbiome. First, analyse contemporary approaches to Christology’s relation creation Andrew Davison’s theological exploration ...

Anterior insula and adjacent frontal operculum (hereafter referred to as IFO) are active during exposure to tastants/odorants (particularly disgusting ones), and during the viewing of disgusted facial expressions. Together with lesion data, the IFO has thus been proposed to be crucial in processing disgust-related stimuli. Here, we examined IFO involvement in the processing of other people's gu...

As a scientist and one of the members of STURP who went to Turin in 1978, I found The Resurrection of the Shroud by Mark Antonacci (M. Evans and Co., Inc. New York, NY, 2000) to be one of the most remarkable books I have read on the subject. I should state that my perspective is primarily that of a scientist, and I will not review some aspects of studies on the Shroud that are mentioned in the ...

The (i) reciprocity relations for the relative Fisher information (RFI, hereafter) and (ii) a generalized RFI-Euler theorem, are self-consistently derived from the Hellmann-Feynman theorem. These new reciprocity relations generalize the RFIEuler theorem and constitute the basis for building up a mathematical Legendre transform structure (LTS, hereafter), akin to that of thermodynamics, that und...

In his article "A Comparative Literary History of Resurrection Plants" John Charles Ryan assembles a comparative history of resurrection plants through textual analysis of early botanical commentaries, herbal references, prose, poetry, and other sources. Resurrection plants include a diverse range of botanical species, typically of arid regions, that appear to come back to life after complete d...