Body modification (or body alteration) is the deliberate altering of the human anatomy or human physical appearance. In its broadest definition it includes...

Church of Body Modification is a non-theistic religion with approximately 3,500 members in the United States. The church practices body modification in...

A subdermal implant is a body modification placed under the skin, allowing the body to heal over the implant and creating a raised design. Such implants...

2003 "Church of Body Modification". Archived from the original on 2011-03-05. Retrieved 2008-08-28. In the Flesh: The Cultural Politics of Body Modification...

A body piercing, which is a form of body modification, is the practice of puncturing or cutting a part of the human body, creating an opening in which...

reconstruct the church, which was completed in 1048. After it was captured by the Crusaders in 1099, it continued to undergo modifications, resulting in...

showed no significant difference in average body mass compared to those without this modification. As of the announcement, the team had not yet conducted...

Hong Kong Ornaments Rubric, a prayer of the Church of England Ornamentation of the human body: Body modification Fashion Human physical appearance Jewelry...

of the oldest known church buildings in the world. In most instances, buildings listed here were reconstructed numerous times and only fragments of the...

There have been many cases of sexual abuse of children by priests, nuns, and other members of religious life in the Catholic Church. In the late 20th and early...

cold-blooded monster who is fully in control of his actions and is a traditional killer with no mention of body modifications; conversely, the film portrays a mentally...

is a form of body modification which involves shaving the hair from a person's head. People throughout history have shaved all or part of their heads...

therefore uses the physical techniques of livestock branding on a human, either with consent as a form of body modification; or under coercion, as a punishment...

Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition). Some people will engage in self-cannibalism as an extreme form of body modification, for example, by...

historical events, and unlike other papal prerogatives, is not incapable of modification. Hermannus Contractus may have been the first historian to number the...

Encyclopedia of Body Adornment. ABC-Clio. p. 66. ISBN 9780313336959. Coptic Christians, Ethiopian Orthodox, and Eritrean Orthodox churches on the other...

First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the LDS Church had unanimously decided that specific modifications would be permitted to the garments:...

from the official Latin text. (English translation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church: Modifications from the Editio Typica, copyright 1997, United States...

the body of the church, a single nave without aisles, so that the congregation is assembled and attention is focused on the high altar. In place of aisles...

last modification to the building occurred in 1724, the year in which the construction of the Chapel del Rosario began. As of 1812, the Church of Santo...

otherwise called the Early Church or Paleo-Christianity, describes the historical era of the Christian religion up to the First Council of Nicaea in 325. Christianity...

Simeon, Simon, or Cephas, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus and one of the first leaders of the early Christian Church. He appears repeatedly and prominently...

was an American church leader known for the Weigh Down Workshop, her Christian dieting program. She founded Remnant Fellowship Church in 1999 and oversaw...

explained by contemporary rabbis as part of a general prohibition on body modification (with the exception of circumcision) that does not serve a medical...

colloquially called the Aglipayan Church, is an independent catholic Christian denomination, in the form of a nationalist church, in the Philippines. Its revolutionary...

the first issue of Basketball Guide for Women, which she would edit and update for eighteen years. These rules, with minor modifications, would remain in...

is the process of player and fan-authored alteration of a video game and is a sub-discipline of general modding. A set of modifications, commonly called...

demonstration occurs in Beijing as part of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. May Transhumanism: Genetic modification of adult human beings is tried for the...

her analysis of transhumanism and its connected ethical issues in Berserk, Natalia Kućma discusses Griffith, mentioning the modification of his "subjectivity...

"syncretism" is an elusive one, and can refer to substitution or modification of the central elements of a religion by beliefs or practices introduced from elsewhere...