Use of holy springs and holy water is inherent in religious activities. Holy spring water is also used extensively for personal drinking water, although not assessed according to drinking water standards. Holy water in churches and chapels may cause infections via wetting of lips and sprinkling on persons. Our aim was to assess the microbiological and chemical water quality of holy springs and ...

south indian language, culture and civilization, dravidian civilization, is important for many of linguists, anthropologists and archaeologists. so, they are trying to find the origins of it. today, the scholars of civilizations try, however, to find any connection between dravidians culture and their own language and culture. so, they attempt to study in this field. it is clear that the cultur...

Author identification of a document can be performed using computational or statistical method. In this paper, we try to identify the author of two ancient Arabic religious books dating from the 6th century: The holy Quran and the Hadith. Authorship identification consists in identifying the author of an anonymously document by using some techniques of Natural Language processing (NLP) and Arti...

Andrei Rublev’s Old Testament Trinity Icon in Cultural Context, in The Trinity-Sergius Lavr in Russian History and Culture Readings in Russian Religious Culture, Deacon Vladimir Tsurikov, ed., vol. 3, Jordanville, NY: Holy Trinity Seminary Press, 2006, 99-122.

Many societies became Muslim gradually, without conquest by Muslim rulers. Explanations of this process typically focus on Muslim traders, proselytizing ‘holy men’, and the conversion of ruling elites, as the limited sources suggest. Yet it cannot be assumed that Islamization always made sense for elites as a power-enhancing stratagem, or that rulers or holy men were willing or able to shape th...

We know of some 650 holy springs in Denmark. Their abundance seems to be the reason why a decade ago one of Denmark's leading authorities on late-medieval archaeology wrote that the popular worship of saints in that country appeared to be more closely connected to the cult of holy springs than anywhere else in Europe.' This statement was apparently based largely on post-Reformation sources. A v...