Clergy continue to have a central role in many communities and the utility of their involvement in the care of people with mental health problems is increasingly argued. However, there has been a failure to examine the form and parameters of partnerships between faith-based organisations and psychiatry.

No Clergy is an interactive music performance/installation in which the audience is able to shape the ongoing music. In it, members of a small acoustic ensemble read music notation from computer screens. As each page refreshes, the notation is altered and shaped by both stochastic transformations of earlier music with the same performance and audience feedback, collected via standard CGI forms.

Bhutan’s current constitution draws upon the historical dual system of religious-civil governance under monarchy (previously Abbot-king) embodying Mahayana Buddhist concept Boddhisatva-leadership. democracy includes an executive-military and pluralist religious custodian role for King who can be abdicated by parliament. It Gross National Happiness as spiritual core, which is non-binding law, in...

This article discusses the main patterns in formation of church property and provision parish clergy with means subsistence. It is revealed that natural consistent evolution relations between laity over more than two centuries did not lead to significant changes. The emergence trusteeships, called upon place spending funds under joint control laity, essentially led consolidation previously esta...