Saqqara, the necropolis of first capital city a unified Egypt, is best known today for Step Pyramid Pharaoh Djoser (2667–2648 B.C.). However, only most visible feature this great burial site, and tombs many thousands individuals are hidden beneath sands, some excavated, others not. These human burials part Saqqara’s funerary history. This paper examines catacombs numerous animals revered by Egy...

This essay examines the use of language in narrating a sacred universe, focusing specifically on text The Universe Story by Thomas Berry and Brian Swimme. It applies narrative hermeneutics Paul Ricoeur, who argued for role influencing life through its creation world, to text. focuses Ricoeur’s five traits phenomenology sacred. step is reminder that religious has been shaped demythologisation, t...

The subject of religion in political conflict is vast, and it is not possible to do justice to it in these few pages. Fortunately, scholars, political analysts and policymakers can refer to two extraordinary new studies, Marc Gopin‟s, Between Eden and Armageddon: The Future of World Religions, Violence and Peacemaking, [1] and R. Scott Appleby‟s The Ambivalence of the Sacred, [2] for comprehens...

Byzantine music is a cover term for the liturgical music used in the Orthodox Church within the Byzantine Empire and the Churches regarded as continuing that tradition. This music is monophonic (with drone notes), exclusively vocal, and almost entirely sacred: very little secular music of this kind has been preserved, although we know that court ceremonial music in Byzantium was similar to the ...

This paper is premised on several Australian Aboriginal myths (or sacred histories) from the Georgina River Basin region of Central Australia that concern the Triodia grasses known locally as spinifex (or aywerte). These sacred histories provide an epistemological foundation to the regional intellectual property over traditional spinifex technologies utilized for architectural, material and med...

This article tells the story of the sacred place named Mata Loko (“River’s Source”) in Karendi on the western end of the island of Sumba. This ethnographic case of an eastern Indonesian society where the traditional religion of Marapu persists sheds light on questions of how local belief systems are part of environmental adaptations. The use of sacred resources is restricted by the belief that ...

Today's mental health system is largely a product of western science. Like a one-eyed giant, it has great power, but it lacks the wisdom which makes life sacred and meaningful. The challenge for today's mental health system is to unite East and West; to integrate wisdom and science; to make room for the sacred as well as the practical. One of the most critical domains for integration-and one of...