Abstract The article advances a political interpretation of ritual behavior in religious communes, grounded costly signaling theory religion. Both asceticism, often involving self-inflicted pain or severe deprivation, and ecstatic behavior, incurring considerable energetic emotional expenditure, can perform the role voluntary signals ( VCS ) – uncoerced displays broadcasting features that predi...

In the early middle ages, a community of Irish monks constructed monastery outpost on lonely Skellig Michael just offshore County Kerry. These skelligs served as mysterious boundary land where known met unknown, worldly wrangled with spiritual, and very parameters humanity itself were brought into question. Amid period great transition in society, willfully abandoned luxuries developing Western...

В данной статье автор рассматривает феномен созависимости с точки зрения православной аскетики. Феномен сравнивается патристическими понятиями страсти и прелести. Рассматривается роль религии в лечении созависимости. Приведены примеры из жизни православных святых, которых подвижники, выражаясь языком психологии, предотвратили развитие этого психологического расстройства. результате приходит к в...

<p class="abstrak">The objective of this article is to examine the spiritual philosophy Ibn al-‘Arabi especially stages start from religious teaching aspects (exoteric) and (esoteric). The complexity al-‘Arabi’s teachings needs be investigate respond accusations conservative groups that state practices done by spiritualists are deviant even considered as strange behavior a symptom mental ...

Dimensional models are commonly used as a supplement to the categorical model within the field of personality disorders. The purpose of this study was to examine personality dimensions as predictors of 5-year outcomes among women with bulimia nervosa. One hundred and thirty-four women with bulimia nervosa participated in a randomised psychotherapy treatment trial. Data was available for 109 out...

A privileged element of contemporary law, confession as a means proof in criminal proceedings is the object analysis this research. Based on bibliographic review, study will seek to decompose and reorganize two fronts, constructing theoretical hypothesis that proposes observe an inquisitorial practice institution, but which also has traceable genealogical depth modulations subjectivation techni...