This article examines the pairing of nouns in the type of parallelism known as binominals, expressions of paired words, in Puma Rai ritual speech. Using a large corpus of ritual and everyday language texts resulting from a language documentation project among the Puma Rai in Nepal, we explore the characteristics of ritual binomials and provide a quantitative analysis of noun-to-verb ratios in t...

Religion has been around for centuries. It has produced a set of beliefs that bind people and affect their daily lives. The teachings of religious scriptures have shaped people’s attitudes and behaviors, culminating their practices. For instance, Muslim men can marry as many women as they want; while Christians, as their teachings say, can only marry once. Religion also takes most of its devote...

The Indonesian Muslim community continues to uphold its religious traditions this day. One of the carried out is pilgrimage saints. Religious are practiced as a basic moral against influence modernization. existence Wali inseparable from growing faith among community. purpose study explore phenomenon tradition, namely In particular, it examines myths that have evolved in continue tradition addi...

1. Introduction In a scene in " The Importance of Being Earnest " Oscar Wilde pinpoints an array of properties of religious ritual systems that cognitive theorizing about religious rituals, viz., the theory of religious ritual competence, has subsequently systematized (Lawson and McCauley 1990; McCauley and Lawson 2002). To the amusement of hundreds of audiences, Wilde's play also identifies a ...

BACKGROUND Conservation of biodiversity is primary important of today's critically vulnerable environment. Efficient conservation can be possible only with the long-term participation and understanding of the communities. Ritual beliefs of the indigenous people are one of the important tools to understand the local communities and aid the nature conservation. In this paper, we documented contem...

How do people feel during extreme collective rituals? Despite longstanding speculation, few studies have attempted to quantify ritual experiences. Using a novel pre/post design, we quantified physiological fluctuations (heart rates) and self-reported affective states from a collective fire-walking ritual in a Mauritian Hindu community. Specifically, we compared changes in levels of happiness, f...

The concept of “ritual syntax” is developed by relating it to cognitive studies of ritual, providing a fuller theoretical basis. Developing theoretical grounding requires differentiating between the members of five pairs of concepts: production is not the same as analysis, syntax is not the same as semantics, ritual is not the same as the mental, cognition is not the same as the mental, and syn...

The Javanese have many traditions, which illustrate that the or people in achieving their expectations are not enough just to work and pray, but there other ways such as ritual efforts carried out based on belief various myths history of places considered sacredness develops society. One has a strong mythical is tomb Prince Samudra Gunung Kemukus, Pendem Village, Sumberlawang District, Sragen R...