In 1965, Gus Dinizulu, an African American percussionist, traveled to Ghana with the dance company he was leading. There, took trip as opportunity explore his roots and met Nana Oparebea, Ghanaian chief-priestess of Akonedi Shrine, north Accra. She performed for Dinizulu a divination, during which she explained that enslaved ancestors were part akan people gave him mission search other American...

Halima Ouadid-Ahidouch, Morad Roudbaraki, Philippe Delcourt, Ahmed Ahidouch, Nathalie Joury, and Natalia Prevarskaya Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale EMI 0228, SN3, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, 59655 Villeneuve d’Ascq Cédex; Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, Université Picardie Jules Verne, ...

Lu and Steinhardt (Reports, 23 February 2007, p. 1106) claimed the discovery of a large, potentially quasi-crystalline Islamic tiling in the Darb-i Imam shrine but regard the earlier Maragha tiling, previously described as quasiperiodic, as a small isolated motif. We demonstrate that the Darb-i Imam pattern is periodic and that the quasi-crystalline discs superimposed on its lattice are derivat...

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...

Abstract This article proposes a re-examination of the phases construction and decoration at shrine ‘Abd al-Samad in Natanz demonstrates that core fabric elements architectural revetments are datable to Seljuq period ( 431-590/ 1040-1194), or slightly later. The structure was repurposed redecorated, including addition extensive lustre tiles stucco, for by Zayn al-Din al-Mastari early years four...

Since the 2000s, Japanese internet media as well mass media, including magazines, television and newspapers, have promoted concept of a “power spot” part spirituality movement in country. This emerging social environment for power spot phenomenon has developed new form religiosity, which can be called “spiritual legitimacy,” according to transformation religious legitimacy embedded society. pap...