By Sally Robertson, BSc. Eating disorders, such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia and binge eating, are characterised by an unusual attitude towards food that may cause an individual to alter their eating habits and eating behaviour. No single cause for eating disorders has been established.
Etymology of the word Religion. Webster's Collegiate Dictionary traces the word back to an old Latin word religio meaning taboo, restraint.. A deeper study discovers the word comes from the two words re and ligare. Re is a prefix meaning return, and ligare means to bind; in other words, return to bondage.. Do you still want some of that old-time religion?
Claims of paganism to the name of religion. Historians of religion usually assume that religions developed upwards from some common germ which they call Totemism, Animism, Solar or Astral Myth, Nature Worship in general or Agrarian in particular, or some other name implying a systematic interpretation of the facts.