Maybe it was envy that churned inside meas I looked around the room. Wonderingwhat healthy Mormons felt instead of fear. My body forced everyone to consider what meant be sick in such a holy place. Scarlet sins on white carpet shoes.I remember shock workersas prayed for Jesus return right thenand translate me into parable nameless miracle who walked away touching his stomach sheepish gratitude....

Abstract Spirit possession elicits two common responses – rites to exorcise Satan or medical intervention. Drawing on pastoral experiences in the major cultures of Fiji, this paper examines different types spirit from perspectives social anthropology, psychology, and theology, which all play important roles dealing with cases possession. Understanding communication within local cosmology is imp...

Vulnerability analysis is concerned with the problem of identifying weaknesses in computer systems that can be exploited to compromise their security. In this paper we describe a new approach to vulnerability analysis based on model checking. Our approach involves: • Formal specification of desired security properties. An example of such a property is “no ordinary user can overwrite system log ...

The starting point of this study is even the still appearing accusations satanism directed at Free Masons. In two first parts study, authors focus on appearance words “Satan” and “satanism” in internal periodicals Czechoslovak Masons during period First Republic. These appearances are nearly always merely a defense against such accusations, often coming from secular pr...

The sixteenth century inherited three discourses on melancholy: the medical, philosophical, and religious ones. While first presented it as a mental illness linked to disorder of humours, second, with rediscovery Aristotle’s Problem XXX, saw sign creative genius, third reminded us that was, according Saint Jerome’s expression, balneum diaboli; allowed Satan take possession patient’s mind, causi...