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Religions, Volume 10, Issue 2

February 2019 - 71 articles

Cover Story: This article focuses on the multi-sensory prayers that certain groups of Hindu women craft in cow dung at the doorstep of their residences during Divali. This ritual is generally considered the worship of god Krishna and the natural environment he inhabits. Ethnographic research into women’s cow dung sculptures in rural Udaipur (Rajasthan) reveals that the sculptures also reflect the local environment that women share with families, animals, and (other) gods. Therefore, this article seeks to answer the following questions: How are women’s sculptures built up as ritual objects, what different images are expressed in them, and what do these images reveal about women’s intimate and gendered connections with their human and non-human environment? To answer this, the article focuses on the iconography of women’s sculptures, the performance of the ritual, and the doorstep as the location where the ritual takes place. View this paper
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Articles (71)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,397 Views
12 Pages

25 February 2019

The otherness of the other, considered as foreignness, is deeply intertwined with the problem of translation and with the one of morality. How can the two of them be brought together based on the work of Emmanuel Levinas? The main question which lead...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
12,425 Views
24 Pages

25 February 2019

The present article focuses on the imagery of the shrine model found at Tell el-Far‛ah North, Biblical Tirzah, seat of the ruling dynasty of the Northern Kingdom in the early days of the Israelite monarchy. It examines the multiplicity of connotation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,360 Views
17 Pages

23 February 2019

There is very little research on the relationship between adolescent religiosity and concealing information from parents, although research on religiosity and family life is plentiful. Therefore, I used the second wave of the National Study of Youth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,779 Views
22 Pages

23 February 2019

This article explores how religion shapes approaches to gender amongst university students in the United Kingdom, focusing on how attitudes about gender interact with their Christian identities. Drawing from 68 semi-structured interviews conducted at...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
33,589 Views
14 Pages

23 February 2019

This article explores the role played by the relationship between witch and familiar in the early modern witch trials. It positions animal familiars at the intersection of early modern belief in witchcraft and magic, examining demonologies, legal and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,461 Views
11 Pages

22 February 2019

There is a substantial literature on the question of whether methodological naturalism (MN) is and/or should be among the principles operative in the natural and social sciences; moreover the status of MN has been one of the battle grounds in promine...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,343 Views
10 Pages

22 February 2019

This paper examines the role of Islamic sacred spaces in Spanish-Moroccan identity negotiations in contemporary Madrid, Spain. In doing so, I explore how these sacred sites produce diverse meanings and practices that resist the Spanish states hegemon...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,224 Views
12 Pages

A View of Spirituality and Spiritual Care in a Sample of Spanish Nurses

  • Abilio Reig-Ferrer,
  • Carmen de la Cuesta-Benjumea,
  • María Dolores Fernández-Pascual and
  • Ana Santos-Ruiz

22 February 2019

The aim of this paper was to explore a select group of Spanish nurses’ views of spirituality and spiritual care. An exploratory design using both qualitative and quantitative methods was used in this study. The participants were nurses who were...

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Religions - ISSN 2077-1444