Rites of Initiation in early medieval Ireland have been studied only with reference to contemporary texts; recourse other sources, most notably the substantial corpus extant high crosses, has not made. Here it will be demonstrated that iconography and programmatic arrangement depictions Noah’s Ark, Baptism Christ, Three Hebrews Fiery Furnace can significantly advance theological liturgical unde...

Luo women are believed to acquire contagious cultural impurity after the death of their husbands that is perceived as dangerous to other people. To neutralise this impure state, a sexual cleansing rite is observed. In the indigenous setting, the ritual was observed by a brother-in-law or cousin of the deceased husband through a guardianship institution. However, with the emergence of HIV/AIDS, ...

Some religious rites of Hajj (the obligatory pilgrimage that many Muslims make to Mecca) cannot be performed during menstruation, so women may wish to suppress their menses. Eliminating monthly periods could further improve the quality of women’s lives, reducing both physical pain and mood swings that can be disruptive or debilitating, to say nothing of the inconvenience and cost of managing mo...

Baptism is the sacramental celebration of Christian initiation. Paul’s letter to Romans, which central understanding baptism, characterizes this event as a dying with Christ and beginning new existence. This mode existence gains an aesthetic-performative form in liturgical rites. The design spaces can then be understood “petrified rites”. imperial church basilicas baptisteries Byzantine period ...

The seventh-century Easter controversy raised questions of orthodoxy and the consequent authority clergy to minister rites. References rites passage are present in three most important sources written early eighth-century Northumbria: Vita Wilfridi Vitae Cuthberti . This article uses examine two debates, concerning Bishop Wilfrid's continental credentials relationship between How authors use th...

The contrast between legal and clinical perceptions of reality, characterized as discrete versus continuous in nature, generates dilemmas for both professions. Individuals in conflict with either system are especially vulnerable to the philosophical serrations at the interface between psychiatry and the law. A case example, which serves to magnify the gripping impact of these diverse and powerf...