Abstract This article examines a ḥadīth text that illustrates the complicated interactions between Christian and Islamic sacred spaces in early period of rule Near East. In this narrative, Prophet Muḥammad gives group Arabs instructions for how to convert church into mosque, telling them use his ablution water cleansing repurposing space Muslim worship. Contextualizing narrative terms Muslim-Ch...

We analyze recent proposals from social scientists suggesting that when sacred values are involved in conflicts, progress towards negotiation can be made if the contending parties make symbolic gestures acknowledging the sacred values of their rivals. We incorporate this possibility in a model in which the allocation of a sacred good can be resolved either by direct conflict or by negotiations ...

MOLITVA is Macedonian for prayer. Prayer also intended as desire, plea. The work incorporates manipulations of Macedonian sacred chants and songs. Musically, the piece builds on melodic, harmonic and rhythmic elements found in the Macedonian sacred and secular music. This performance has been written for Solo Voice, Live-Electronics, 3-D Setup of Speakers and the Pointing-At WIMU / 6-DOF Glove ...

421 a Associate Professor, Department of Orthodontics, Kangnam Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University. b Assistant Professor, Department of Preventive Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Seoul National University. c Professor, e Assistant Professor, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Kangnam Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University. d Chairman, Department of Orthodontics, Chong-A Denta...

A sacred relationship exists between tobacco and American Indian ceremonial activities and beliefs. This ancient connection continues to play an important role in American Indian communities including the Anishinabe (Ojibwe). Six Ojibwe traditional healers and spiritual leaders described the sacred use of tobacco during interviews. The research provides information on key-informant smoking beha...

Increasingly across the world, political conflict is as a moral clash between different sets of sacred values, which a moral community treats as possessing transcendental significance that precludes comparisons or tradeoffs with instrumental values of realpolitik or the marketplace. In experiments with Israeli settlers, Palestinian refugees and Hamas students we found that violent opposition to...