Western psychotherapy and indigenous shamanic healing systems have both used psychoactive drugs or plants for healing and obtaining knowledge (called "diagnosis" or "divination" respectively). While there are superficial similarities between psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy and shamanic healing with hallucinogenic plants, there are profound differences in the underlying worldview and concepti...

Divinisation rituals establishing oneness between practitioners and divinities are common across Tantric traditions. While scholars largely argue that divinisation occurs through meditative practices, implying a clear demarcation contemplative samayācāra body-focused kaulācāra rituals, I suggest entail fundamental corporeal elements; furthermore, the distinction is not obvious, but negotiated o...

Postpartum, a critical period for both mother and new born baby, entirely changes the life of a woman. This study aims to understand the perception of postpartum, the postpartum practices and rituals in Altit Hunza community, the nutritional regime for the mother and her new born baby, the cultural and health barriers faced by the women during the postpartum period, and to understand their know...

Provides a sociological explanation of how menses can play an important role in the way of living of a society. It comes alive socially and makes its presence felt in the cultural realm in the form of rituals at menarche, taboos and restrictions throughout one’s menstrual life, the gendered meanings that are constructed as a result of the following of such taboos, and the variety of treatments ...

Can a cultural memory and identity constructed around traumatic events in the historical past, interpreted as the result of pollution of the sacred center, give a group an evolutionary advantage under the right conditions? This article assesses this question by examining three different waves of religious entrepreneurship that drove the evolution of the ancient Israelite religion between the la...

The article deals with the traditions and ethnodeformations associated funeral, which are found in prose works of Kazakh literature. We often use phrase “torkaly toi, toprakty olim” (solemn celebration a sorrowful death, when all burial ceremonies performed by beautifying dead close people deceased mourn for his/her passing) sense joy sadness. know that each nation has its own traditions, super...

The twenty-first century is often characterized as an era of unprecedented mobility and interconnectivity, but it is also marked by efforts to reinforce national borders and curtail human movement. Paradoxes of mobility and immobility in our increasingly unequal world come into sharp focus when viewed through the lens of religion. Sociologists, anthropologists, and scholars of comparative relig...

This chapter reviews the great diversity of healing practices found around the world and represented in most urban centres. A general model of healing is presented that includes both the physiological processes central to biomedical theory and practice and the symbolic aspects of healing that have physiological, psychological and social effects. Work on the theory of metaphor in cognitive scien...

The purpose of this study are: (1) A comparison the existence customary land rights owned by indigenous villages in Gianyar Regency and those communities Banyuwangi Regency.; (2) patterns utilization for provision tourist facilities attractions. Customary Batuan Traditional Village Padangtegal Regency, Bali still exists mainly form village druwe land. Meanwhile, Osing Indigenous Community Kemir...