from the historical and medical point of view, this paper purports to illustrate two motifs of immaculate conception in christian art. the first painting is an altarpiece of unknown author from the 17th or 18th century, known as our lady of conception in the church of st. antony the abbot in the city of rab on the island of the same name in croatia, and the other is a mural from 1490, mary’s an...

Tree worship is very common worldwide. This field study surveys the ceremonies and customs related to sacred trees in present-day Israel; it includes the results of interviews with 98 informants in thirty-one Arab, Bedouin, and Druze villages in the Galilee. The main results are: 1. Sacred trees were treated as another kind of sacred entity with all their metaphysical as well as physical manife...

We report a series of experiments carried out with Palestinian and Israeli participants showing that violent opposition to compromise over issues considered sacred is (i) increased by offering material incentives to compromise but (ii) decreased when the adversary makes symbolic compromises over their own sacred values. These results demonstrate some of the unique properties of reasoning and de...

binary decision diagram (in short bdd) is an efficient data structure which has been used widely in computer science and engineering. bdd-based attack in key stream cryptanalysis is one of the best forms of attack in its category. in this paper, we propose a new key stream attack which is based on zdd(zero-suppressed bdd). we show how a zdd-based key stream attack is more efficient in time and ...

English as well as French differentiates the term holy from the term sacred – in fact, Levinas' book "Du sacré au saint" is translated as "From the Sacred to the Holy". This is illustrative of the extent to which the meanings of the two words differ. God is called "The Holy One Blessed be He", but we would find it peculiar to refer to Him as "The Sacred One". By contrast, when referring to plac...

Sacred spaces and their attendant pilgrimage attractions seem to be some of the universal more obvious features world religions. One emerging phenomena within contemporary Ghanaian Christianity is Christians’ sacred mountains. Even though scholarship on this phenomenon gradually bourgeoning epistemic context, a thematic engagement literature Prayer Mountains (PMs) as in Christian setting seems ...

Sacred space is an important form of Chinese traditional villages, which combines religious belief, humanistic belief and complex space. Taking Gaoyi Village, Jingping Village the North Dong Dynasty, Huangdu Pingtan Dutou South Dynasty as examples, paper analyzes evolution sacred space, change function its influence mechanism in villages nationality western Hunan through in-depth interviews wit...