Liturgy and Ecclesiastical Law

The Ecclesiastical Art Review

This journal, which was started to supply a want, has proved to be a great success. Religion and Art have been connected in all ages. There is nothing sectarian in the objects of the journal, and the current number contains a valuable article on " Relics of Religious Art in India." The following extract from a paper on " How we Bury our Dead " contains some excellent sanitary observations:?" Qu...

Typesetting Coptic Liturgy in Bohairic

This paper describes what the authors have done in order to typeset some Coptic texts with LATEX mainly in the Bohairic variant used in liturgy. This implied the creation of suitable fonts, the macros for typesetting special liturgical symbols, the hyphenation patterns necessary to typeset with the Coptic alphabet and the rules used by the Bohairic variant.

The unveiling of life : liTurgy and The lure of kiTsch

This article probes the classic definition of religious aesthetics as related to the notions of beauty, goodness and truth. The phenomenon of kitsch, understood as simulation (or inversion) of beauty, goodness and truth, is taken cognisance of, especially in the light of contributions by Milan Kundera, Umberto Eco and Jean Baudrillard. The article briefly reflects on the liturgical consequences...

Encroachments on Ecclesiastical Authority: Taxation, Clerical Immunity, and the Jews

Weak-Minded Responsibility in Iranian Criminal Law and Egyptian Law

In Iran's criminal law, humans are not only divided into wise or insane they are also persons who, on the one hand, do not fall under Article 149 of the Islamic Penal Code in the definition of insane persons and on the other hand, they are not wise, the rational age of these people is lower than their child's physical age that Affected by mental disorder and mental retardation. Article 91 of th...