Where Saints Show Respect

Where Saints Show RespectThis book draws on three decades of ethnographic research to explore the penetration of mafia values in Sicilian society. By exploring rituals through which local society learns deep respect for those values, this study aims to offer a critical perspective on Sicilian modernity.

author of The Theology and Philosophy of Eliade: A Search for the Centre

Ron Ketter

alongside conservation and restoration practices from around the world

Panzera began collecting Leonardo's observations on human proportion and then creating drawings from life to test the validity of the observations

from the momentary fulfillment of desire in the happy ending to the pleasurable torment of an indeterminate ending

After decades of being defined by crisis and limitations

are usable on a large scale

These bioactivities are potentially released by proteolytic enzymes during the digestion process and they have the potential to be released by enzyme hydrolysis and turned into functional food ingredients

Karak Castle (Middle and Late Islamic Period)

of a certain abandonment of political philosophy for historicism or a scientistic search for laws

Twelver Shi'ism

private and civil society stakeholders to minimize global FLW