By the end of the 19th century,the missionaries had successfully planted Christianity in Ibadan,Nigeria with its distinguishable architecture.The history of church architecture in Ibadan is synonymous with the beginni...
I thank the African Studies Centre(ASCL),Leiden University,The Netherlands,for inviting me as a guest researcher which enabled me to work on this manuscript.I would also like to thank Dr.Amos Ron,head of the Department of Tourism,Ashkelon Academic College,for his enlightening comments,which greatly contributed to the article.
Sacred spaces have usually been presented dichotomously in pilgrimage studies:small or big,near or far,at the“center of the world”or at the margins.This article discusses a unique combined pilgrimage during the Sege...
The use of Urban Solid Waste (USW) as sources of energy has acquired rising importance in current discussions of alternative energy supplies, in particular in Brazil. This paper brings to these discussions an examinat...
The second great paradigm shift in the history of the Catholic Church arrived after Vatican II, which ended the lengthy sway of the Greco-Roman Church and led, as Karl Rahner has written, to “the Church actualizing i...
The judicious and timely use of silence within worship is becoming increasingly recognised as a crucially important aspect of its performance. This article suggests that Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot has much to...