Emnet for dette bidraget er to runeformler fra ulike tidsepoker. De strukturelt nokså likt gjennomført ved enderim og “[v]ekslende initialer med faste repetisjoner” (Nordby 2018: 109). Den ene den velkjente þistill-mistill-kistill-formelen, som først opptrer på danske Gørlevsteinen rundt 800–850 e.Kr., andre yngre horn-þorn-korn-formelen, ristet inn i kalkpuss gotlandske kirker en blyamulett Kæ...

This paper is about Catholic beliefs on the Rosary prayers. As often misunderstood, prayers are not mere repetitions of reciting words. Rather, mystery begins with Jesus and circles back to Jesus. There twenty mysteries in prayers, which arranged into four-mystery groups: Joyful, Luminous, Sorrowful, Glorious mysteries. In this paper, our specific discussion biblical background review five lumi...

Four articles in this issue demonstrate effective adaptation of the methodology of systematic reviews to environmental health science (Johnson et al. 2014; Koustas et al. 2014; Lam et al. 2014; Woodruff and Sutton 2014). Researchers in many countries and disciplines have participated in developing this methodology for more than a century and have used it to synthesize evidence from primary sour...

a considerable part of the statements in different shi’ite jurisprudential chapters expresses the practical obligations of the obliged (mukallafīn) with respect to the denominational dissidents. the concept of denominational dissidents, in its general sense, refers to all those people who have any faith other than the twelve-imam shiism. among all such dissidents, the people of the tradition (a...

This is the second of a 3-part series analyzing a recent report in the Journal of Reproductive Medicine claiming to have shown positive results (a 100% increase in pregnancies from in vitro fertilization) resulting from distant prayers performed simultaneously by 3 different volunteer prayer groups in 3 different countries. Part 1 analyzed the scientific defects of the study. Part 2 analyzes th...