Music and the Altered State of Consciousness by Lajos KIRÁLY

“…The world of popular music has also been inspired by the concepts of Christianity and ecstasy, and some rock bands have emerged from a combination of the two. …”
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Oriented Magnetite Inclusions in Plagioclase: Implications for the Anisotropy of Magnetic Remanence by O. Ageeva, G. Habler, S. A. Gilder, R. Schuster, A. Pertsev, O. Pilipenko, G. Bian, R. Abart

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Pop goes the Pope: religion and popular music in Italy by Paolo Prato

“…Music has maintained a long relationship with cult since ancient times, contributing to its efficacy and strengthening a communitarian identity. The advent of Christianity marked a sensible change in the way music was used, pioneering the very idea of listening as absolute, later extended to Western art music. …”
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The Alteration of Giglio Island Granite: Relevance to the Conservation of Monumental Architecture by Fabio Fratini, Silvia Rescic, Oana Adriana Cuzman, Paolo Pierattini

“…The research examines the alteration phenomena of Giglio island granite, a rock quarried by Romans from the 3rd century, used for columns in the Italian peninsula and later reemployed in many Christian religious buildings. …”
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Ancient Indian Political Economy by Ratan Lal Basu

“…That is why it includes in this document foreign authors from Escílax de Carianda through Greek, Chinese, Christian authors up to the beginning of the 20th century. …”
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The Mosques and Mescids in Konya-Hatunsaray and Its Vicinity by Tolga BOZKURT

“…Despite the absence of the exact visible remains of this Roman settlement, it is understood that the area was populated beginning from the early Christian period. The rock carving architecture in Gokyurt/Kilistra, Guneydere/Botsa and Yesildere/Detse districts developed as separate settlements reveal the Roman and the Byzantine identity of the region. …”
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Some Geometrical Motifs in Caucasus and in Cappadocia in the Middle Ages: Meditations About Its Origin and Interpretation by Ekaterina Endoltseva, Danil Shevchenko

“…The article deals with the frescoes of the specific style “red signs” on the rock. They were widespread in the architectural monuments of Cappadocia. …”
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Probing the exchange of CO₂ and O₂ in the shallow critical zone during weathering of marl and black shale by T. Roylands, R. G. Hilton, E. L. McClymont, M. H. Garnett, G. Soulet, S. Klotz, M. Degler, F. Napoleoni, C. Le Bouteiller

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A Biblical Response to Suanggi in the Arfak Tribe in Papua Island by Pontas Surya Fernandes, Philip Suciadi Chia, Jevri Terok

“…Most of the Arfak people are Christians. However, the people of the Arfak tribe still believe in Animism (a belief in a supernatural power that organizes and animates the entire material universe) and Dynamism (a belief that there are powers that exist in natural objects in the world e.g. a rock or a tree might become an object of awe and veneration because it is believed to have great power) which is often termed Suanggi. …”
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Assessment of Carbon Substrate Catabolism Pattern and Functional Metabolic Pathway for Microbiota of Limestone Caves by Suprokash Koner, Jung-Sheng Chen, Bing-Mu Hsu, Chao-Wen Tan, Cheng-Wei Fan, Tsung-Hsien Chen, Bashir Hussain, Viji Nagarajan

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Reassessing the Periodization of Mural Paintings in the Cave Church of the Southern Mangup Monastery by Yuriy M. Mogarichev, Alena S. Ergina

“…The Southern Monastery is located in the southern part of the Mangup plateau in a natural rock grotto. The cave church is in the eastern side of the grotto. …”
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Sacred landscapes, ecclesiastical landscapes: from necropolis to parish in central Iberia by Iñaki Martín Viso

“…The rock dug graves are one of the few archaeological signs of the early medieval rural landscape in the central part of Iberia. …”
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The Solar Stag of the Chamalals and Tindals and other masonry petroglyphs in the upper Andiiskoe Koisu region of Dagestan and their relationships to similar phenomena in the mounta... by G. Petherbridge, A. M. Ismailov, A. A. Gadzhiev, M. R. Rabadanov, A.‐G. M. Abdulaev, M. M. Murtuzalieva, D. M. Saipov, Sh. M. Isaev, M. G. Daudova

“…As Christianity spread in Transcaucasia and the Great Caucasus Range, including north‐western Dagestan, indigenous images representing the solar stag were conflated with those of the popular Christian cult of the Miracle of Saint Eustace, resulting in the unique petroglyphs of the solar stag common to…”
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Elastic Wave Propagation in a Stainless-Steel Standard and Verification of a COMSOL Multiphysics Numerical Elastic Wave Toolbox by Mohsen Bazargan, Bjarne S. G. Almqvist, Hem Bahadur Motra, Pooyan Broumand, Tobias Schmiedel, Christoph F. Hieronymus

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The sacral topography of the Monastery of Treskavac by Smolčić-Makuljević Svetlana

“…The area of Mt Treskavac also shows several rock paintings with a cultic function. This authentic manner of marking out a sacred area may be explained by the prophylactic role of the Virgin, or a Christian saint, in a barely passable, perilous landscape. …”
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Hryhoriy Skovoroda on heavenly and earthly mountains by Bohdana Krysa

“…Skovoroda’s spiritual space, conditioned by the correlation of the Christian written tradition with the signs of its author’s interpretation determined by the advancement towards God as an advancement towards yourself, urging to rise above ordinariness and to relinquish the world’s temptations.And at the same time, the symbol of spiritual summit matches the images of earthly mountains, with spatiality of feelings enabling the emphasis on the commensurability of the visible and the invisible, of the immanent and the transcendental.This correlation makes Skovoroda’s spiritual journey both intensely dramatic and lyrical, earthly and heavenly, and the sign of Christ’s visible Crucifixion coexists with His invisible Resurrection.The image of mountain holds an important position in Skovoroda’s world.Even the affinity or the identity the images of  mountain and rock have reveals this characteristic to be the foundation and the summit at the same time, the aim and the way to that aim, to watch the earth and the heaven, the man’s and the God’s.H. …”
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To hell and back: a study of the concepts of hell and intercession in early Islam. by Hamza, F

“…</p> <p>Probably under influence from the Judaeo-Christian tradition, the concept of temporary Hell-fire punishment found its way into the nascent Muslim theology of the early second century A.H. …”

Clogging mechanisms and preventive measures in artificial recharge systems by M Shahbaz Akhtar, Yoshitaka Nakashima, Makoto Nishigaki

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Parerga to the Stadiasmus Patarensis (12): The routes 56 – 57 (Phellos – Kyaneai – Myra) by Fatih Onur, Mehmet Oktan

“…In the graveyard of the village a Christian inscription of a church donation of a certain Ioannes was discovered (No.1). …”
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Modeling the influence of climate on groundwater flow and heat regime in Brandenburg (Germany) by Mikhail Tsypin, Mikhail Tsypin, Mauro Cacace, Björn Guse, Björn Guse, Andreas Güntner, Andreas Güntner, Magdalena Scheck-Wenderoth, Magdalena Scheck-Wenderoth

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