The element of sacrifice in romantic love

In romantic love, the link with transgression is made very frequently indeed, so frequently that we cannot simply be dealing with a way of construing as real an obstacle that is imagined because the actual satisfaction is prohibited. Rather, the fact that access to the object is seen as transgressive must be due to the fact that the object itself has something that prevents the relationship from occurring. That is, it is not the case that the object is merely imagined to be inaccessible when in actual fact there is no obstacle to satisfaction by means of it. Rather, the relationship to the object as source of love is also and at the same time a perverse relationship that, at least for a neurotic, causes anxiety.

Health-related religious rituals of the Greek Orthodox Church : their uptake and meanings

Aim
To examine the uptake of religious rituals of the Greek Orthodox Church by relatives of patients in critical condition in Greece and to explore their symbolic representations and spiritual meanings.
Background
Patients and their relatives want to be treated with respect and be supported for their beliefs, practices, customs and rituals. However nurses may not be ready to meet the spiritual needs of relatives of patients, while the health-related religious beliefs, practices and rituals of the Greek Orthodox Christian denomination have not been explored.
Method
This study was part of a large study encompassing 19 interviews with 25 informants, relatives of patients in intensive care units of three large hospitals in Athens, Greece, between 2000 and 2005. In this paper data were derived from personal accounts of religious rituals given by six participants.
Results
Relatives used a series of religious rituals, namely blessed oil and holy water, use of relics of saints, holy icons, offering names for pleas and pilgrimage.
Conclusion
Through the rituals, relatives experience a sense of connectedness with the divine and use the sacred powers to promote healing of their patients.
Implications for nursing management
Nurse managers should recognize, respect and facilitate the expression of spirituality through the practice of religious rituals by patients and their relatives.

Changes in annual reporting rituals of financial services firms in periods of market crisis

This paper examines accounting and financial reporting as ceremonial rituals. Its specific focus is upon changes in annual reporting rituals of financial services firms during periods of market crisis. Our preliminary findings suggest that several of the firms in our study may have made changes in their reporting rituals to construct alternative realities in an attempt to mask conflict, preserve stability, foster unity, and reinforce new social norms, core values, and corporate identities.

Moloch, a story of sacrifice.

Mode of access: Internet.

The craftsman, and freemason's guide : containing a delineation of the rituals of freemasonry, with the emblems and explanations so arranged as to greatly facilitate in acquiring a knowledge of the rites and ceremonies of the several degrees, from Entered apprentice to that of Select master /

"The constitutions of the freemasons containing the charges, regulations, etc. of that most ancient and right worshipful fraternity. London, 1723" (p. [317]-354) has special t.-p.

The doctrine of sacrifice deduced from the Scriptures : a series of sermons /

Photocopy. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1978. -- 18 cm.

The craftsman, and freemason's guide, containing a delineation of the rituals of freemasonry, with the emblems and explanations so arranged as greatly to facilitate in acquiring a knowledge of the rites and ceremonies of the several degrees, from Entered apprentice to that of Select master, and the order of priesthood.

With music.

The untameable logic of sacrifice

Paolo Diego Bubbio's Sacrifice in the Post-Kantian Tradition offers a valuable and insightful discussion of the place of sacrifice plays in nineteenth century European philosophy, setting the stage for its emergence as a central theme in subsequent continental thought. Bubbio offers a strong case for the claim that the foundational move of the post-Kantian tradition is a fundamentally kenotic one. Bubbio is also critical of certain excesses in the way sacrifice is discussed in more recent work. However, the case of Kierkegaard in particular suggests kenosis is not so easily kept within the comfortable boundaries Bubbio prescribes for it: its excesses may be an integral part, rather than a hyperbolic distortion, of the logic of sacrifice.

La necrópolis de El Castillo (Castejón, Navarra). Vajilla e instrumental metálico de sacrificio y banquete en el valle medio del Ebro (S. VI – III a. C.)

El presente estudio tiene por objeto estudiar y analizar la vajilla y el instrumental metálico relacionados con los rituales de sacrificio y banquete funerario que se practicaron en el valle medio del Ebro durante los siglos centrales del Ier Milenio a. C. La investigación se ha centrado en la extensa información que proporciona la necrópolis de El Castillo (Castejón, Navarra), un espacio funerario que, por el momento, constituye una asombrosa excepción en un horizonte marcado por la ausencia o la parquedad de los datos.