Commencing with dawn, zuhr, asr, maghrib, and concluding isha, obligatory prayers are conducted five times a day. These the first worship that will be weighed on last Printed materials frequently utilized to teach practice of praying. It is feasible, however, produce monotonous quantity learning. Today, technology development information have influenced an individual’s learning style behavior. ...

Prayer is the most common form of religious practice and a central part of religious experience, yet little is known about whether individuals’ prayer activities and beliefs tend to remain stable or develop over the life course. This study examines change during the course of older adulthood in a range of dimensions of prayer, including total frequency of private prayer, specific beliefs and ex...

Christian Healing Ministries in Jacksonville, Florida is a charismatic organization that promotes and practices Christian healing. Although known for healing prayers, its worldview is more holistic and includes different kinds of prayers that address emotional, psychological, spiritual and bodily health. Deliverance prayer is of particular interest because it imagines a world of “spirit attachm...

Responses to violence in some lament Psalms of the individual Lament psalms of the individual that reflect a motif of violence are here examined so as to determine whether or not the editors of the Psalter had a pattern of instruction that they wished to inculcate with respect to the experience of violence. An examination of prayers of the accused and prayers of sickness as sub-groups within th...

This article investigates the contexts, or "listening niches", in which people hear popular music. The study spanned a century of popular music, divided into 10 decades, with participants born between 1940 and 1999. It asks about whether they know and like the music in each decade, and their emotional reactions. It also asks whether the music is associated with personal memories and, if so, wit...

The article by Homedes and Ugalde in this week’s issue of PLoS Medicine is an important addition to the global discussion about Mexico’s 2003 health reform, the Seguro Popular (SP) [1]. While this reform has been controversial in Mexico [2], it has been highly praised in international circles. The Lancet ran a special series on the reform in 2006, and former U.S. President Bill Clinton lauded S...