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This issue of Approaching Religion is dedicated to Terhi Utriainen, Professor of the Study of Religions at the University of Helsinki. It is published on the 7 November 2022, Terhi’s sixtieth birthday, and contains reflections and research articles written by Terhi’s colleagues in Finland, the UK and the Netherlands.
Helena Kupari, Maija Butters
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Morphography of Regional Dramatic Rituals of Komijan People [PDF]
This article attempts to analyze a part of the findings of documentation survey and field work carried out for five years in two cities and 67villages in Komeijan region of Markazi province, Iran, from some new perspectives such as ritual morphography ...
Mohammad Aref, Maryam Raoofi
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Archaeological Practices and Societal Challenges
Archaeology and archaeological work are tightly linked to contemporary societal challenges. Archaeology has much to contribute to the understanding, contextualising and working out of global challenges from migration to environmental change.
Huvila Isto +3 more
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Believing and social interactions: effects on bodily expressions and personal narratives
The processes of believing integrate external perceptual information from the environment with internal emotional states and prior experience to generate probabilistic neural representations of events, i.e., beliefs.
Rüdiger J. Seitz +3 more
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«Red Ritualism» in the Territory of Don Oblast in 1923-1924 [PDF]
The birth, development and extinction peculiarities of the “Red Ritualism” (new traditions and rituals of Soviet Russia) in the territory of Don Oblast in 1923–1924 are considered in this article on the basis of the regional periodicals of 1920.
Tabunshchikova Liudmila
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This article analyzes Lesya Ukrainka’s well-known dramatic poem Boyarynya in an aspect still, unfortunately, little-studied: a comparison of the mental characteristics of Ukrainians and Russians, formed by different conditions of existence and ...
Larysa Moroz
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On the importance of rituals in sport
In this short article, we took a look at the importance of rituals in sports. First we explained the concepts of religion, creed, superstitions, fallacies and rituals.
Paweł Piepiora +3 more
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Wohlbefinden von Menschen mit Demenz durch gelebte Spiritualität – eine explorative Studie
Die zunehmende Alterung der Gesellschaft führte in den vergangenen Jahren zu einer Zunahme altersbedingter Erkrankungen. Dazu gehört insbesondere die Demenz.
Prof. Dr. rer. medic. Gerald Lux +4 more
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Memorial service: A means of communication with the dead [PDF]
A specific relationship toward the dead characterizes the traditional Serbian culture; this cult exists even today, in somewhat changed form. A death is always followed by the appropriate, traditional, ritual obligations that served to regulate behavior ...
Ivanović-Barišić Milina M.
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Sexuality: the development of ideas in historical sources
How did the concept of sex relations change through ages? Physical intimacy – heterosexual and homosexual – has been described in history from the antiquity.
J. Kh. Khizroeva +2 more
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