"Smoking is a powerful re-inforcement for the trance-inducing rituals associated with gambling."

The Latino population is the fastest-growing population in the United States. This rapid growth has resulted in an increased need for culturally sensitive health and education services, especially at end of life. Terminal illness experiences, beliefs, and expectations are linked to cultural values. Latino culture values end of life and is rich in beliefs, traditions, and rituals related to this...

By the early twentieth century, Britain and all of its Atlantic colonies prohibited the “pretended” use of supernatural powers or rituals such as fortunetelling, obeah, sorcery, and witchcraft. Legislators and others policymakers throughout the Anglophone Atlantic justified these proscriptions using similar narratives; they described occult practitioners as charlatans and vagabonds. Metropolita...

BACKGROUND Quality end-of-life care depends on understanding patients' end-of-life choices. Individuals and cultures may hold end-of-life priorities at different hierarchy. Forced ranking rather than independent rating, and by-person factor analysis rather than averaging may reveal otherwise masked typologies. METHODS We explored Saudi males' forced-ranked, end-of-life priorities and dis-prio...

Most reports of drug treatment for obsessivecompulsive neurosis concern one tricyclic antidepressant, namely clomipramine. Early suggestions that the drug might be valuable in this condition were based on uncontrolled and/or short-term studies over only a few weeks (Fernandez and Lopez-Ibor, 1967; Beaumont, 1973; Capstick, 1975; Ananth et al., 1978). A recent controlled study with long-term fol...

A rite of passage is a ritual event that marks a person's transition from one status to another, including birth, coming-of-age, marriage and death. One of the rite of passage is funeral and its Rituals .A funeral is a ceremony for honoring, respecting, sanctifying, or remembering the life of a person who has died. Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture...

this study is a description about the development of ceremonies and rituals and also the formation of religious system and the type of its opposition with the political system, after the official declaration of asna ashari (twelve imams) shiism in the safavid dynasty. the author believes that at least four development periods can be considered in iranian rituals in the safavid era. the first pe...

On the basis of data extracted from a longterm experiment with a robotic user interface, the paper discusses prerequisites and functions of interaction rituals.

zoroastrian’s purification rituals are one of the most visible aspects of zoroastrianism that root in the avesta’s texts. but it seems that these customs which were considered as a preservative of human communities from harm and evil diseases in the pre-zoroastrian period, have been changed after that period of time and their joining to the religious teachings of zoroasterian. in this paper, at...