The possibility that victims of child abuse can repress or otherwise lose memories of early traumatic experiences and then recover them years later is currently the subject of heated debate (Alpert et al., 1996). Concerns about false memories are particularly intense in cases involving repressed memory of alleged acts of satanic ritual abuse (Wright, 1994). Allegations of ritual abuse, which of...

This paper presents a theoretical analysis of men's experiences of pregnancy, birth and early fatherhood. It does so using a framework of ritual transition theory and argues that despite its earlier structural-functionalist roots, transition theory remains a valuable framework, illuminating contemporary transitions across the life course. The paper discusses the historical development of transi...

The indelible memories of my medical undergraduate days include one of a lecture delivered by the late Karl Stern, then professor of psychiatry at McGill. His topic was the role of ritual in preventing anxiety. He began by asking us to recall the silly games we had played as children — avoiding cracks in the sidewalk (“step on a crack, break your mother’s back”) or holding your breath when you ...

The Daily Ritual was one of a series of cultic rituals performed for the statue of the god by temple priests each day. Performed in the morning after the fi rst light of dawn, it was complemented by similar but more abbreviated rituals in the afternoon and evening. The Egyptians believed that the gods themselves had established the correct form of the rituals, and along with the celebration of ...

www.ritualdynamik.de Hand over the pūjā plate with the siddhir astu. ācamana. Make the purification for the clay of the guru reciting the rakṣohanaṃ. Sacrifice bali, reciting the adhy avocad. Light reciting the tejo ʼsi. Ritual bath reciting the svasti na indro. • Rituals exist in all human cultures across all times. • Similarities between rituals from very distant cultures can be observed. • I...

Drawing upon James Carey’s ritual model of communication as a framework, we argue that rituals, especially religious rituals, are important resources for technology design. We suggest that a ritual view of ICT interaction represents an alternative and significant model for ICT development and evaluation, and that the observance of religious rituals affords researchers the opportunity to see cul...

In this paper, a new automatic system for classifying ritual locations in diverse Hajj and Umrah video scenes is investigated. This challenging subject has mostly been ignored in the past due to several problems one of which is the lack of realistic annotated video datasets. HUER Dataset is defined to model six different Hajj and Umrah ritual locations [26]. The proposed Hajj and Umrah ritual l...

This paper draws on contemporary ritual theory from two different disciplines and research traditions to show how rituals can affect IT projects. These theories suggest that commonplace project activities, such as signoffs and scope changes, have symbolic and emotional effects that not only persist, but also accumulate from one occurrence to the next. The analysis extends our understanding of r...

in early islamic sources, it has been mentioned of a temple with exceptional natural position in kashan ardhar, where zoroastrians held a ritual in the thirteenth day of july. this ritual includes knocking stone to mountain and seeking water from the spring for healing. also in the sources of ghajar period, a step of the same natural position is mentioned in ardhar area, where more or less the ...

Hilazon Tachtit, a small Natufian cave site in northern Israel, served first and foremost as a ritual location for the burial of the dead. Burials were found in all loci of the 30 m2 occupation. At least twenty-eight individuals were buried at the site—two of them in structures that were too small for human habitation. The ritual nature of the site is supported by some aspects of material cultu...