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Life after death: a physicochemical study of materials used by the ancient Maya in human bone ointments
2021
Ancient Maya believed in life after death. They used to prepare dead bodies during burial ceremonies whose purpose was to celebrate the dead and to help them passing through the way from earthly life to the beyond one. Bodies preparation included coloured scented body ointment application, with a deep symbolic connotation and probably also a conservative purpose. The aim of this research was to characterize pigments and binders used by ancient Maya in the preparation of body oint ments used to paint human bones. Emblematic painted bone samples from Xcambó (Maya archaeological site located in the municipality of Dzemul, in the Mexican state of Yucatán) were investigated through a non-destruc…
Practical Movements: Kinetic rituals in the Ancient Western Mediterranean
2011
Scholars have studied the long-distance movements of people and goods in Phoenician and Punic society between the eighth and the second centuries BC in considerable depth. However, little attention has been paid to travelling, walking and sailing as common activities in their daily lives. it was through living in and moving through landscapes and seascapes that people constructed their sense of place. Sacred places may have been nodal points in these settings and everyday movements may well have become ritualized. This article develops the idea that journeys to shrines might be considered as pilgrimages and stresses the kinetic aspect of these practices. I suggest that trips to shrines were…
Religious and spiritual motifs in the art of the patients of Nikkilä Hospital
2021
This article focuses on religiousness and spirituality in the art works of psychiatric patients of Nikkilä Hospital, Finland. The pictures analysed here belong to a collection held at the Helsinki City Museum and they were made during the twentieth century. The theoretical frame of the study is a cultural study of mental health. The collection is approached as presenting a specific kind of imagery which has connections not only to the personal history and diagnoses of the patients; their cultural context and hospital environment is also taken into account. The religiousness and spirituality of the Nikkilä collection are also compared with outsider art and examples of art history internation…
Segunda p[ar]te del libro llamado Abecedario spiritual : donde se tratan diuersos exercicios en cada letra el suyo / compuesto por el padre fray Fra[…
1539
Sig.: a-z8, [et]4, [cum]4 Lletra gòtica. - Caplletres. - Port. orl. a dos tintes
Primera parte del libro llamado Abecedario spiritual: q[ue] trata d'las circu[n]stancias d'la sagrada pasio[n] del hijo de Dios / co[m]puesto por el …
1544
Sig.: a-y8, z4 Lletra gòtica. - Caplletres. - Port. arquitectònica a dos tintes
Niepokojący wschód azjatyckiej teologii. Wprowadzenie do studium
2021
Teologia w Polsce nie dysponuje tłumaczeniami ani opracowaniami w zakresie teologii i duchowości azjatyckiej. W dodatku na płaszczyźnie pastoralnej kontakt z Dalekim Wschodem nacechowany jest lękiem, wynikającym z braku wiedzy. Instytut badań nad Teologią i Duchowością Dalekiego Wschodu jest próbą odpowiedzi na zapotrzebowanie integracji środowiska naukowego, zajmującego się teologią i duchowością Dalekiego Wschodu. Niniejsza publikacja jest zaproszeniem do współpracy.
Is our brain hardwired to produce God, or is our brain hardwired to perceive God? A systematic review on the role of the brain in mediating religious…
2009
To figure out whether the main empirical question "Is our brain hardwired to believe in and produce God, or is our brain hardwired to perceive and experience God?" is answered, this paper presents systematic critical review of the positions, arguments and controversies of each side of the neuroscientific–theological debate and puts forward an integral view where the human is seen as a psycho-somatic entity consisting of the multiple levels and dimensions of human existence (physical, biological, psychological, and spiritual reality), allowing consciousness/ mind/spirit and brain/body/matter to be seen as different sides of the same phenomenon, neither reducible to each other. The emergence …
Cien años de arqueología funeraria en el estrecho de Gibraltar: Nuevas investigaciones en la necrópolis de Baelo Claudia (Tarifa, Cádiz)
2014
En este trabajo abordamos el estudio de la necrópolis oriental de Baelo Claudia (Tarifa, Cádiz) a partir de los trabajos arqueológicos y de interpretación de las antiguas intervenciones que llevamos a cabo desde la Universidad de Alicante. Asimismo, junto con los resultados de la última excavación, se plantean nuevas lecturas sobre el paisaje funerario, la religiosidad y la etnicidad, así como sobre la tipología monumental y los ajuares. The new archaeological research conducted by University of Alicante in the Eastern necropolis of Baelo Claudia (Tarifa, Cádiz) are presented in this paper. Drawing on renewed reinterpretations of ancient excavations which have been enriched with the results…