In today's healthcare environment, characterized by downsizing, restructuring, mergers, and acquisitions, organizational cultures and employees are experiencing rapid--and often tense--changes. Ritual can facilitate change by acknowledging it and allowing the grieving process to take its course. The success of an organizational culture change can depend on whether the organization and its membe...

During the preschool years, children understand prayer as a form of communication and are sensitive to the physical behaviours of prayer. Theorists have suggested a connection between the ability to reason about others’ mental states and the inflexible nature of religious rituals. Thus, the current study examined this connection in preschool children’s understanding of prayer. Child-parent dyad...

background: recognizing the importance of ritual pray as one of the most significant indicators of practical religion; this study examines the ritual pray among students. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted at isfahan university of medical sciences in 2012 all freshman students by census were examined. entry criteria were being muslim and willingness to participate in the study. d...

Malay society in Batubara District used a ritual of Misfortune as healing treatment for any kind disease. is cultural asking protection from God condition. This study was aimed to find out the latest additional role Ritual Society. Modernization and technology have endanger value life regulation The worst consequence elimination implementation Society District. A qualitative descriptive researc...

This research aims to examine the process in Domyak Ritual and values ​​contained therein, that can be integrated into character education Indonesia’s schools. The method used is a descriptive qualitative with an ethno pedagogic approach. Data collection techniques this study were literature review, interview, observation documentation. results of explained, was born 1920 initially as ritual ce...

Abstract In the twelfth chapter of Book Judith, eponymous heroine departs from Assyrian camp in order to bathe and pray over three successive nights. Judith’s bath has been interpreted as a ritual which achieves purification. Scholars have offered various reasons for purificatory wash, but none fully account all details this episode. This paper discusses proposed solutions offers new suggestion...

Time-consuming and costly religious rituals pose a puzzle for economists committed to rational choice theories of human behavior. We propose that religious rituals promote in-group trust and cooperation that help to overcome collective-action problems. To test this hypothesis we design field experiments to measure the in-group cooperative behavior of members of religious and secular Israeli kib...

OBJECTIVES To determine the cause of resistance to the aminoglycosides gentamicin and tobramycin in Acinetobacter isolates and the location of the resistance genes. METHODS Australian Acinetobacter baumannii isolates were screened for resistance to aminoglycosides. PCR followed by restriction digestion of amplicons was used to detect genes and plasmids. Plasmids were isolated and examined by ...

Abstract This article describes the ritual of Masak Minyak as a traditional medicine at Lo Cia Bio temple. healing is held during birthhday ceremony Cia/Ne Zha host deity this The research methodology and data collection technique used qualitative method, in form collecting by direct interviews field observations. Field observations were carried out Cia’s birthday from 10th October to 14 th 202...