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Because “superstition” ([special characters omitted] in Greek, superstitio in Latin) was the standard category in antiquity for denigrating “debased” religion, a prerequisite for situating early Christianity in its Mediterranean milieu is an understanding of what this label mean…

A community of Jews, largely from Calcutta, India currently lives in Los Angeles, California. The community originally hailed from Baghdad, Iraq and sojourned in India and Burma for a century before immigrating to the Western World following World War II. Group members brought w…

Theater artists have long practiced superstitions and rituals such as leaving a lightonstage to keep ghosts from taking up residence in the theater or not saying the name of the play Macbeth for fear of being cursed. The question we must ask is why? And what purpose do these rit…

This dissertation examines uncertainties about the supernatural among members of the urban middle class in Tehran, Iran. In particular, I attend to the ways in which the category of the supernatural (mavara ) has become, for some people, an object of potential scientific ('elmi …

In the following work, I deal with the relationship of faith to superstition, and their reflection in German literature based on religious studies in a literary work. First, there will be an introduction to this work and the topic and then the subject of superstition will be gen…