gnosticism and sufism, investigation of activities of these two schools through times andalso reviewing their different parts have been paid attention by western and eastern researchers across islamic countries. islamic sufism is one major issue in gnosticism which lasts for twelve centuries since its foundation. this subject has been paid essential attention regarding that an important part of...

This article speaks about Dubrovnik's Dominicans who were engaged in natural studies or wrote medical dissertations. It brings a list of manuscripts and printed works kept in the Dominican monastery library. These include six incunabulae and more than 200 works on anthropology, anatomy, hygiene, pharmacy, and general, theoretical, and practical medicine, internal and cerebral medicine, orthopae...

With assistance from lay volunteers and using a giant stove, Tibetan monks at Longen monastery in rural Qinghai province China prepare and serve meals for several hundred of their peers during the summer retreat. In the past, rugged geography and the isolation of this monastery above 13,000 feet gave reasons for the monks to eat local meat since other foodstuffs were unavailable in an area unab...

Benedictine Monastery of St. Andrew is probably the oldest existing Benedictine monastery in this area. According to hundreds of years of legend, it was founded in 1018 year. In clinical examination about the possibility of the macular degeneration occurrence in 15 Benedictine sisters, we found the age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in two cases only. In 13 other sisters aging 27, 60, 67yea...

Archeological acoustics is a part of acoustics that studies ancient environments which were dedicated (completely or partly) to sound performing. The combination of this acoustic area in conjunction with room acoustics enables the study of the acoustic evolution of existing buildings (in terms of the historical documentation) or even, make the acoustic reconstruction of rooms which were destroy...

out of the minds of the monks he has had psychoanalysed by a distinguished Jewish woman, but also how to purge his own brain of such poison. The man is Gregoire Lemercier, the sixth of an artillery officer's thirteen children who feared his father and at the same time wanted to emulate him. When he became a priest he transferred his complex to God. His autoanalytical sermons bloom with double f...

The primary objectives of my funded research were two fold in construct and dealt with systems of management on both an industrial and individual level. The first was to examine the environmental and socio-economic burdens of resource management in relation to copper ore extraction in Chile, the world’s largest copper producer. Secondly, I visited a unique detoxification program at the Thamkrab...

Set in the municipal archives of Braga, this article studies accounting system and practices Monastery Santa Ana, a female monastery located small town, Viana do Castelo, north Portugal, during eighteenth century. This work is full-scale examination interlink between governance aspects Benedictine organisations. It sheds light on extent management administration that gender was able to exercise...