Activities relating to the discovery of local history, revival of rituals, and modification of traditional knowledge that are undertaken in local communities or associations have placed the reflection on the role and significance of heritage practices in contemporary society under scrutiny. We are becoming increasingly aware that heritage activities play an important role in the development of ...

BACKGROUND In Israel, virtually all children undergo circumcision in the neonatal period. Traditionally, it is commonly performed by a "Mohel" (ritual circumciser) but lately there is an increasing tendency among the educated secular population to prefer a medical procedure performed by a physician and with local anesthetic injection. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the outcome of this procedure and t...

This paper discusses the Toraja ritual, namely ma' bua' kasalle as a life thanksgiving ceremony which then becomes basis for offering feminist theological perspective, regarding intersectionality of women's experiences in ritual. The method used this article is qualitative with an analytical description approach that brings together Ronald L. Grimes' thoughts on ritual bodily experience Denise ...

Achieving goals often requires the completion of sequential actions, such as finishing a series of assignments to pass a class. In the course of pursuing such goals, people can decide how closely to follow their personal standards for each action. We propose that actions at the beginning and end of a sequence appear more diagnostic of the pursuer's personal standards than do actions in the midd...

We point out that a simple test of the mechanism of CP violation can be performed by a measurement of the CP asymmetries in exclusive and inclusive radiative rare decays. We show that the rate asymmetries ∆Γ = Γ(B → fγ)− Γ(B+ → f̄γ) for certain final states f can be predicted in a theoretically clean way. Some implications for b → sl+l− decays are discussed.