Hacı Bektaş Veli is one of the most important names Turkish Islam. Various sources and groups paint different completely opposite portraits. While some describe as a Sunni mystic, others consider him representative heterodox In addition, there are those who turn into purely political figure show symbol resistance that stands by working people against injustices. It possible to come across cultu...

OBJECTIVES Psychological outcomes of aesthetic surgical procedures like hair transplantation are mostly positive including decreased anxiety, depression and social phobia and increased general well-being, self-efficacy and self-esteem. However, some patients may suffer from post-surgical depression and post-surgical increased suicide rates have been reported for breast augmentation patients. Di...

There tends to be a moment in the development of cultural practices when discourses of the recent past become history; they are no longer just outdated but, like bell-bottom jeans, mini-skirts and platform shoes, acquire historicity. This is what seems to have happened with film theory of the 1970s and early 1980s, particularly as it revolved around the notion of 'the spectator'. I am thinking ...

Our paper explores the affinity between location and the registers of memory through the material specificities of moving image and the place of cinema using two recent moving image artworks, Reach and Maelstrom: The Return (2014), as case studies. Reach is an ‘environmental’ direct animation that enables a symbiotic conversation between artist and place through film’s agency as a sensitive and...

A plug-in for the 3D modeling application CINEMA 4D is presented which allows to use the graph transformation language XL to transform the 3D scene graph of CINEMA 4D. XL extends Java by graph query and rewrite facilities via a data model interface, the default rewrite mechanism is that of relational growth grammars which are based on parallel single-pushout derivations. We illustrate the plug-...

Paradigmatic change is driving aesthetic change in cinema. This restructuring is not only transforming what is on the screen, but the means of production that put it there. The interplay of technology and culture, along with their dynamics has made this so. Marshall McLuhan’s Laws of Media provide an effective lens with which to examine this change. Some preliminary observations on the shape of...

Social psychologists are increasingly interested in the growth of irreligion, defined by Lugo (2015) as identification with no particular religious affiliation. Findings that suggest that religion is a product of evolution have influenced this social psychological research, warranting the question: If religious tendencies were strictly a product of evolution, then how does one explain the pheno...

The present study was an attempt to assess religious orientation and life satisfaction as well as to find out relationship of religious orientation with life satisfaction among university students. University students were also compared on religious orientation and life satisfaction with respect to their gender. The data for the present study was obtained from university students [N=200 (Males ...