this study is a description about the development of ceremonies and rituals and also the formation of religious system and the type of its opposition with the political system, after the official declaration of asna ashari (twelve imams) shiism in the safavid dynasty. the author believes that at least four development periods can be considered in iranian rituals in the safavid era. the first pe...

Sociologists of the 19th and the 20th centuries were tackling the relation between science and religion. A few models of these relations were offered, by which the monopoly over the truth by any one of those is crashed. Therefore, there are a few models but each is with lots of limitations. None is sufficient to explain the relation between the science and religion, but each contributes to cert...

Families encounter some issues after the death of their loved one due to COVID-19. Therefore, this study aimed explore family’s views on This integrative review was conducted from May Jan 2021. We searched PubMed, Google Scholar, Scopus, Web Science, CINHAL, Magiran, and SID databases. Fifteen studies met inclusion criteria. The results were classified into two categories, including before deat...

We describe three patients from different religious backgrounds in Sri Lanka whose possession states were strongly influenced by their religious beliefs. Patient A was a Buddhist who claimed to have special powers given by a local deity named Paththini. Patient B was a Catholic who experienced spirits around her whom she believed were sent by Satan. Patient C was a Muslim and believed she was p...

Death and Social Order in Tokugawa Japan is a very important book providing a detailed explanation of a vital part of early modern Japanese Buddhism that goes a long way to putting in perspective how the religious tradition functions in the contemporary world. To put in context the contributions of the book, it can be noted that visitors to Japan who are curious about the role of Buddhism in re...

abstract the nature and origin of human behaviors, as the main factors in the development of body and soul, have been studied and analyzed from different perspectives, including philosophy, psychology and physiology. in religious teachings, human behaviors are addressed through being classified into active and stative and also conscious and non-conscious behaviors and their effects on the life ...

BACKGROUND AND AIM Spiritual life can be defined as the search for personal contact with the transcendent. Careful assessment of spiritual life can help to value its importance to cancer patients from the moment of their diagnosis. METHODS This is a cross-sectional study. Two hundred fifty-seven patients undergoing cancer treatment filled in the validated Italian version of the Systems of Bel...

sciencethe article intends to study the common denominators and intersection of the empirical sciences with and religion so as to study the instances in which religion may effect scinces. the aim is to provide foundations for the establishment of religious science. for this purpoes,with the help of literature produced in the philosophy of science ,such subjects as the mode of scientific cogniza...

Even though explaining mental foundations of culture and cultural foundations of mental life has always been one of the ultimate objectives of collective social sciences, there seemed little hope of developing a natural science of culture until the recent interdisciplinary attempts called cognition and culture. What sets the new approach apart is its focus on understanding the relationship betw...