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...

Benedictions (Benedictiones) are liturgic rites in Catholic church, pronounced by a priest on individual occasions. Medieval studies viewed benedictions and sacramentals (sacramentalia) as “clerical magic” due to multiple superstitions that surrounded these practices. The article uses Yu. M. Lotman’s communicative model of culture, which can be semiotically unbalanced (“core” “periphery”, inclu...

Reading comprehension is critical to understanding written communication. Even when students are able to recognize words and fluently read text, they my not comprehend what is read. Learning to comprehend text is critical for students to be successful in school and future careers. As new technologies emerge, there is a push to integrate technology into the classroom to promote academic success ...

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...

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused drastic changes in everyday life Indonesia, including Muslim religious activities facilitated by mosques. A mosque is intended to accommodate all worshipping that can provide benefits not only for congregants performing within, but also communities and the environment around mosque. One thing remains constant terms of main functions mosques accommodation praying...

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...