monitoring and assessment of water has become environmental concern due to the contamination by man kind. one of the most important crises of the 21st century is the availability of drinking water, a resource basic to our survival and growth. most of the fresh water bodies all over the world are getting polluted thus decreasing the suitability of the fresh water. the area of the study, selected...

This article presents an overview of both the processes and the results of an international, interdisciplinary, and interreligious feminist study of "good sex" that resulted in a volume by the same name. We argue that religion (including its secular equivalent, i.e., global capitalism) remains a powerfully influential cultural force that shapes people's lives, in general, and sanctifies their b...

The article analyses the employment of words, images and rituals, in early years Italian Republic, to reinforce militarization Public Security Guard (Corpo delle Guardie di Pubblica Sicurezza) engender public support for hard-line military-type solutions law-and-order difficulties. Drawing on police literature (especially magazine Guard, Polizia Moderna), newspapers cinema newsreels, it commemo...

This article explores local film censorship in Northern Ireland, examining the ways which individual authorities and committees imposed their own conceptions of what was acceptable for cinema-going public. Drawing on material from Public Records Office Ireland (PRONI) this work begins with setting up systems newly created Irish state 1920s, maps interventions by a range councils across decades ...

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In the 2014 case Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, the US Supreme Court ruled that the contraceptive mandate promulgated under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act violated privately held, for-profit corporations? right to religious freedom. In 2012, the US Department of Health and Human Services [2] issued the contraception [3] mandate, which required that employerprovided health insurance pla...

Infertility is a condition loaded with meaning spanning across biomedical, psychological, social, economic, cultural and religious spheres. Given its disruptive power over women's lives, it provides a unique lens through which issues of kinship, gender, sexuality, cosmology and religion can be examined. The paper presents the results of an ethnographic study of infertility in Central Nigeria. E...

This paper explores various scientific studies and neurophysiological evidence that describe and authenticate the two main forms of religious conversion: progressive andinstantaneous. Progressive conversion experiences are thought to occur via the Stage Model and are explained by the emotional-cognitive processing theory, while instantaneous conversion experiences have been found to result from...