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Ubuntu and mourning practices in the Tsonga culture: Rite of passage
The article focusses on ubuntu and mourning rituals practised in the Tsonga culture. Tsonga cultures and rituals have been proclaimed as being different from province to province with a few similarities.
Hundzukani P. Khosa-Nkatini
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The transgression consisting in using violence to force the Pythia of Delphi to give an oracle is attested around three distinct historical figures from the Classical and Hellenistic periods: Philomelos the Phocidian, Alexander the Great and Appius ...
Manfred Lesgourgues
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Kant on the rights of citizens in matters of religion: The concept of religious tolerance in the German Enlightenment [PDF]
The universal public law is a section of Kant’s lectures on natural right, which he delivered in 1784. A traditional part of the then natural right compendia, it might seem strange to us today.
Kryshtop L. E.
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Latter-Day Saint Liturgy: The Administration of the Body and Blood of Jesus
Latter-day Saint (“Mormon”) liturgy opens its participants to a world undefined by a stark border between the transcendent and immanent, with an emphasis on embodiment and relationality.
James E. Faulconer
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Theory of Technomagic: Spells, Ecstasy and Possessions in Digital Culture
The rituals, ceremonies and effervescence of the sacred manifest themselves in digital culture not only through the proliferation of new religious cults.
Vincenzo Susca
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Introduction. By the beginning of the 20th century, the Mongols had widely used texts on apotropaic magic in their daily life. Among them there are writings with pictures and descriptions of talismans aimed at averting diseases and mishaps, attracting ...
Anna D. Tsendina
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Sites with varying geometric features were analyzed to develop the 85th percentile speed prediction models for car and sports utility vehicle (SUV) at 50 m prior to the point of curvature (PC), PC, midpoint of a curve (MC), point of tangent (PT) and 50 m
Avijit Maji, Ayush Tyagi
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RITUAL OF CHRISTMAS EVE SUPPER IN THE OPOCZNO REGION. TRADITION AND THE PRESENT DAY
This article presents the customs, rituals and beliefs of the Christmas Eve supper in the Opoczno subregion, both those practiced at the beginning of the 20th century and those that have survived to the present day.
Zdzisław Kupisiński
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On some Rites and Customs of the Moguls: Analyzing Tarikh-i Rashidi by Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat
Introduction. The article examines some rites and customs once practiced in the medieval ethnopolitical alliance of Moghuls. Goals. The study attempts an insight into Tarikh-i Rashidi by Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat for data pertaining to customs and ...
Atygayev Nurlan A., Muktar Abilseit K.
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The Divine Liturgy as Mystical Experience [PDF]
Most characterizations of mystical experience emphasize its private, esoteric, and non-sensory nature. Such an understanding is far removed from the original meaning of the term mystikos.
Bradshaw, David
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