Men are typically stronger, riskier, “showier,” and more impulsive than women. According to sexual selection theory, such behaviors may have enhanced reproductive fitness for ancestral human males. However, such behaviors are facultative, and the mechanisms that cause them respond to social and environmental cues that indicate whether outlays of strength, risk-taking, showing off, or impulsivit...

Evolutionary theories of religion and sacred values are essential for understanding current trends in terrorist activity. We clarify religion’s role in facilitating terror and outline recent theoretical developments that focus on four cross-culturally recurrent features of religion: communal participation in costly ritual, belief in supernatural agents and counterintuitive concepts, separation ...

In March 2019, the first ever act of terrorist violence in New Zealand was live-streamed on social media, making many media users unwitting witnesses to massacre their devices. The Christchurch mosque attacks revealed a particular digital and emotional vulnerability embedded infrastructure. last words victim soon transmorphed into #hellobrother that, as artefact, participated shaping landscape....

Purananuru is one of the books from Ettuttokai Compilation eighteen classical Tamil literature Patinen Merkanakku. There are four hundred poems in various poets and places compiled as book. Among Tamils, life was surrounded by main concepts which virtue, wealth, love, afterlife, this book consists three stated before a afterlife related to Puram. Everyone knows that word Puram means outside. Bu...

The paper takes its departure point from a seemingly innocuous idiom that common English parlance uses to describe person who has lost possession of their rational mind: “not all there.” Interrogating the locality this deictic “there” implies, argument juxtaposes it with recent religious scholarship on Afterlife, which posits that, by extension, absence risen Christ tomb, Christian subject is e...

Empirical research has ignored the effects of poverty on adolescent religion even though children are far more likely than adults to live in poverty in the United States. The current research demonstrates considerable differences in the religious activities and religious viewpoints of poor and non-poor American teenagers. Analysis of National Study of Youth and Religion survey data shows that w...

as is known, Aleph began life in this world very long before we did, about five millennia ago, in the most privileged and closely guarded precincts of the Egyptian pyramids.1 The hieroglyph profile of its bull head can be seen quite clearly in the spells recorded in the Book of the Dead over the many centuries and dynasties that comprise the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms. Surviving shifts in fas...