Accounts of recoveries from accidental injuries in medieval children recorded among the posthumous miracles of saints are a particularly valuable source of information about childhood during an age for which such material is scarce. Whereas reports of miraculous healing of chronic illnesses or handicaps often emphasize the prayers offered and the sudden joyous return to health at the shrine in ...

Using the representations of Anglican Cathedral Holy Cross in media, this article retrieves Cathedral’s role public life Zambian church history order to tease out its significance post-independence Zambia. In drawing on a case study and social capital theory, shows that Cross, as pre-independence religious building, was represented national house worship, heritage site political shrine. By this...

The research shows the role of participatory leadership style in enhancing organizational loyalty through positive psychological capital as a mediating variable. In order to achieve this, questions centered on nature correlation and influence relationships between variables. For this reason, relied dimensions each variable separately demonstrate improving And reaching best solutions decisions f...

in today's cities, especially metropolises, the issue of identity and its transformation has become one of the most important issues among urban authorities and designers. mean while, mashhad as the second religious metropolises in the world has an identity- causing and effective role among islamic cities of iran in recent decades, the amount of urban construction, especially in central pa...

Abstract This paper offers a novel illustration of the political economy religion by examining impact religious elites on development. We compile unique database holy Muslim shrines across Pakistani Punjab and construct historical panel literacy spanning over century (1901–2011). Using 1977 military takeover as universal shock that gave control public goods to politicians, our difference-in-dif...

Mashhad city is located on alluvial deposits where the expanded area of this city, especially the central and eastern areas surrounding Imam Reza holy shrine, are built on weak and fine-grained deposits. Therefore, the soil improvement would be inevitable due to construction of high-rise buildings such as hotels and commercial complexes in these areas, as well as restructuring old buildin...