Studies of ancient Egyptian religion have examined texts for evidence of cattle worship, but the picture given by the texts is incomplete. Mortuary patterns, ceremonial buildings, grave goods, ceramics and other remains also contain evidence of cattle worship and underline its importance to early Egypt. The recently discovered cattle tumuli at Nabta Playa in the Western Desert are identified he...

Part One addresses the question whether the fact that some persons love something, worship it, or deeply care about it, can endow moral status on that thing. I argue that the answer is ‘‘no.’’ While some cases lend great plausibility to the view that love or worship can endow moral status, there are other cases in which love or worship clearly fails to endow moral status. Furthermore, there is ...

Two studies assessed the relationship between celebrity worship and (i) addiction (n 1359) and (ii) criminality (n 2158). Overall Celebrity Attitude Scale (CAS) scores correlated positively with Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Revised (EPQ-R) Addiction and Criminality sub-scale scores. In further support of the absorption addiction model of celebrity worship (McCutcheon, Lange, & Houran, 2002...

This short article attempts to construct a liturgical theology of the General Assembly of Presbyterian Churches in Korea (GAPCK). As a Reformed tradition, the GAPCK has two solid foundations for its theology and practice: the Bible and the theology of Calvin. The GAPCK frequently uses Calvin’s theology as the primary hermeneutic for interpreting the Bible and applying it to ministerial practice...

OBJECTIVES We examined the contribution of religious involvement to age-related declines in health by examining the association of worship attendance with measures of different stages in the disability continuum. METHOD Participants included 5,863 Black and White older adults from the Chicago Health and Aging Project. Worship attendance was coded in 3 levels: very frequent (several times a we...

Abstract The main components of the Habsburgs’ dynastical piety—worship Crucified, Eucharist, Blessed Mary and her spouse St. Joseph—are already well-known. They were common to both branches House Austria, Spanish as well Austrian one. However, they are far from exhausting variety manifestations with which fostered cult saints. More than other sovereigns, Habsburgs intervened on behalf patron s...

The outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) since November has increased challenges human existence. Before pandemic there were issues insecurity, religious and racial bigotry, climate change, poverty so forth, which to a large extent have affected humanity negatively. lockdown, was introduced as measure curb spread virus, exacerbated anguish already tense world. Suddenly, governmen...


 Many Hindu deities as known from classical sources (i.e, the epics, Purāṇas, and later religious literature iconography) have a very slender profile in Vedic texts, appearing only few passages often represented ways that seem peripheral to their full, personae. Ritualists devotees steeped older took pains connect those mantras rites, order validate them with prestige of venerable orthodo...

This paper focuses on the mythological image, the Queen Mother of the West in Classic of Mountains and Seas, to explore the hiding history and mental reality behind the fantastic literary images, to unveil the origin of jade worship, which plays an significant role in the 8000-year-old history of Eastern Asian jade culture, to elucidate the genetic mechanism of the jade worship budded in the Sh...