this article is a study on the religious approach of pre-safavid iranian muslim miniaturists to female depiction based on quranic verses and other religious narratives. this article is to find the way of visual reflecting female admired qualifications based on islam view at original and novel miniatures. assuming that mentioned visual reflection is based on quranic and religious narratives or h...

The Norwegian health authorities buy one third of their addiction treatment from private institutions run by organizations and trusts. Several of these are founded on religious values. The aim of the study was to investigate such value-based treatment and the patients’ experiences of spirituality and religiousness as factors of meaning-making in rehabilitation. The study was performed in an exp...

UNLABELLED Introduction : Work over preparation of DSM-5 has been a stimulus for research and reflection over the impact of religious/spiritual factors on phenomenology, differential diagnosis, course, outcome and prognosis of mental disorders. AIM The aim of this paper is to present the attitude of DSM towards religion and spirituality in the clinical context. Even though DSM is not in use i...

    Over the past few decades, the family affected by the processes, and consequences of modernization has experienced profound changes in both objective-structural and semantic-subjective levels. The family has faced new issues, some of which represent progress and welfare, and some suggest traumatic social issues which reduce the pace of development in the society as hindering factors. Thus, ...

This paper addresses Mark Silk’s theory of “unsecular media” through a case study of a visit the Dalai Lama made to the United States. Silk contends the themes (what he calls “topoi”) media use to cover religion are derived from Western faiths. Thus, according to Silk, when Western religious principles are used to write about Western religious practices, those practices are generally evaluated ...

the sociological criticism was established by george lukach in the beginning of 20th century and then lucien goldmann and mikhail bakhtine have developed it. in sociological criticism the content impact is on form and social situation impact on content. so, if we study the work we can find the idea of the writer or poet and we can use it as a historical document. adi ibn zayd was in the court o...

the purpose of this study is a reflection on the approaches to values education and its development at the education system of iran. in this article, we have used analytical and descriptive methods. research findings show that values education is inherent component of education and values have to be translated to students on basis of rational processes and free will. also, it seems that some of...

Through a review of the 2012 documentary film The World before Her directed by Nisha Pahuja, this article provides a critical reflection on how neoliberal governmentality appropriates women’s bodies and subjectivities in two women’s boot camps in India: the Miss India contest and the Hindu militant Durga Vahini camp. Studies on appropriation of women’s bodies in the neoliberal ideology of the m...

The question “why” is a typical question of human beings, who not only know the world and react to it, but also wish to understand its meaning. From the classical reflection of Aristotle which was conducted in physics as well as in metaphysics on the fourfold dimension of causality, important observations are still deduced. The cause is always material, formal, efficient, final. Every time, in ...