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Del 294 - Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
Religion and Architecture in Premodern Indonesia
Studies in Spatial Anthropology
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
2 480 kr
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In his richly illustrated Religion and Architecture in Premodern Indonesia Gaudenz Domenig investigates the nature of Indonesian ethnic religions by focusing on land opening rituals, sacred groves, and architectural responses to the custom of presenting offerings. Since deities and spirits were supposed to taste offerings on the spot, it was a task of architecture to attract them and to guide them into houses where offerings were presented. Domenig quotes numerous sources to show that certain material elements of the house were viewed as spirit attractors, spirit ladders or spirit pathways. Various ‘exotic’ features of Indonesian vernacular architecture thus become understandable as relics from times when architecture was still responding to indigenous religions practised in the archipelago.
Del 76 - Brill's Japanese Studies Library
Founding Territorial Cults in Early Japan
Traces of a Forgotten Ritual in Ancient Myths and Legends
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
1 019 kr
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The first book that deals with the territorial cults of early Japan by focusing on how such cults were founded in ownerless regions. Numerous ancient Japanese myths and legends are discussed to show that the typical founding ritual was a two-phase ritual that turned the territory into a horizontal microcosm, complete with its own ‘terrestrial heaven’ inhabited by local deities. Reversing Mircea Eliade’s popular thesis, the author concludes that the concept of the human-made horizontal microcosm is not a reflection but the source of the religious concept of the macrocosm with gods dwelling high up in the sky.The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation.