Explore: Religious Aspects Of Sickness

The Sickness unto Death (Danish: Sygdommen til Døden) is a book written by Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard in 1849 under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus

prohibitions. Religious beliefs can inform ordinary aspects of life including eating, clothing and marriage, as well as deliberately religious acts such as

syncretism is the blending of two or more religious belief systems into a new system, or the incorporation into a religious tradition of beliefs from unrelated

Religious syncretism is the blending of religious belief systems into a new system, or the incorporation of other beliefs into an existing religious tradition

Religious tolerance or religious toleration may signify "no more than forbearance and the permission given by the adherents of a dominant religion for

from the religious aspect of the festival, Sinulog is also famous for its street parties, usually happening the night before and on the night of the main

 'earthen sickness', mal de Saint Jean lit. 'Saint John's sickness', mal des enfans lit. 'child sickness', and mal-caduc lit. 'falling sickness'. People of epilepsy

umbrella term for a range of Indian religious and spiritual traditions (sampradayas) that are unified by adherence to the concept of dharma, a cosmic order

of infection, but a collection of evolved responses – sickness behavior by the body – that helps clear infection and promote recovery. Such aspects of

enacted. A common case is to cleanse sickness from the body of a man who has had a disagreement with a member of his family who has died before the disagreement