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33 produkter
Homo Ritualis
Hindu Ritual and Its Significance to Ritual Theory
Inbunden, 2016
2765 kr
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Are the richness and diversity of rituals and celebrations in South Asia unique? Can we speak of a homo ritualis when it comes to India or Hinduism? Are Indians or Hindus more involved in rituals than other people? If so, what makes them special? Homo Ritualis is the first book to present a Hindu …
Homo Ritualis
Hindu Ritual and Its Significance to Ritual Theory
Häftad, 2016
832 kr
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Are the richness and diversity of rituals and celebrations in South Asia unique? Can we speak of a homo ritualis when it comes to India or Hinduism? Are Indians or Hindus more involved in rituals than other people? If so, what makes them special? Homo Ritualis is the first book to present a Hindu …
Singing the Rite to Belong
Ritual, Music, and the New Irish
Av Helen Phelan
Inbunden, 2017
2444 kr
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This book explores the way in which singing can foster experiences of belonging through ritual performance. Based on more than two decades of ethnographic, pedagogical and musical research, it is set against the backdrop of "the new Ireland" of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Charting …
Singing the Rite to Belong
Ritual, Music, and the New Irish
Av Helen Phelan
Häftad, 2017
734 kr
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This book explores the way in which singing can foster experiences of belonging through ritual performance. Based on more than two decades of ethnographic, pedagogical and musical research, it is set against the backdrop of "the new Ireland" of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Charting …
Rites of the God-King
Śānti and Ritual Change in Early Hinduism
Inbunden, 2018
1985 kr
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Scholars of Vedic religion have long recognized the centrality of ritual categories to Indian thought. There have been few successful attempts, however, to bring the same systematic rigor of Vedic Scholarship to bear on later "Hindu" ritual. Excavating the deep history of a prominent ritual …
Buddhists, Shamans, and Soviets
Rituals of History in Post-Soviet Buryatia
Inbunden, 2019
1943 kr
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History in the Soviet Union was a political project. From the Soviet perspective, Buryats, an indigenous Siberian ethnic group, were a "backwards" nationality that was carried along on the inexorable march towards the Communist utopian future. When the Soviet Union ended, the Soviet version of …
The Problem of Ritual Efficacy
Av William Sax, Johannes Quack m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
1170 kr
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Rituals transform citizens into presidents and princesses into queens. They transform sick persons into healthy ones, and public space into prohibited sanctuary. Shamanic rituals heal, legal rituals bind, political rituals ratify, and religious rituals sanctify. But how exactly do they accomplish …
The Problem of Ritual Efficacy
Av William Sax, Johannes Quack m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
699 kr
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Rituals transform citizens into presidents and princesses into queens. They transform sick persons into healthy ones, and public space into prohibited sanctuary. Shamanic rituals heal, legal rituals bind, political rituals ratify, and religious rituals sanctify. But how exactly do they accomplish …
Buddhists, Shamans, and Soviets
Rituals of History in Post-Soviet Buryatia
Häftad, 2020
675 kr
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History in the Soviet Union was a political project. From the Soviet perspective, Buryats, an indigenous Siberian ethnic group, were a "backwards" nationality that was carried along on the inexorable march towards the Communist utopian future. When the Soviet Union ended, the Soviet version of …
Mock Ritual in the Modern Era
Av Reginald McGinnis, John Vignaux Smyth
Inbunden, 2022
1689 kr
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Mock Ritual in the Modern Era explores the complex interrelations between ritual and mockery, the latter of which is not infrequently the unofficial face of claims to rationality. McGinnis and Smyth consider how the mocking and parodying of ritual often associated with modern rationalism may itself …
Homa Variations
The Study of Ritual Change across the Longue Durée
Av PAYNE, Richard K. Payne m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
2627 kr
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The practice of making votive offerings into fire dates from the earliest periods of human history, and is found in many different religious cultures. Throughout the tantric world, this kind of ritual offering practice is known as the homa. With roots in Vedic and Zoroastrian rituals, the tantric …
Homa Variations
The Study of Ritual Change across the Longue Durée
Av Richard K. Payne, Michael Witzel
Häftad, 2015
895 kr
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The practice of making votive offerings into fire dates from the earliest periods of human history, and is found in many different religious cultures. Throughout the tantric world, this kind of ritual offering practice is known as the homa. With roots in Vedic and Zoroastrian rituals, the tantric …
Ritual, Media, and Conflict
Av GRIMES, Ronald L. Grimes m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1335 kr
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Although conflict is a normal aspect of human life, mass media technologies are changing the dynamics of conflict and shaping strategies for deploying rituals. Rituals can provoke or escalate conflict; they can also mediate it. Media representations have long been instrumental in establishing, …
Ritual, Media, and Conflict
Av Ronald L. Grimes, Ronald L. Grimes m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
650 kr
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Although conflict is a normal aspect of human life, mass media technologies are changing the dynamics of conflict and shaping strategies for deploying rituals. Rituals can provoke or escalate conflict; they can also mediate it. Media representations have long been instrumental in establishing, …
Performing the Reformation
Public Ritual in the City of Luther
Häftad, 2010
535 kr
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The home of Martin Luther for thirty six years and seat of the German Reformation, Wittenberg, Germany is now a UNESCO World Heritage site. Wittenberg has long been Protestant sacred space, but since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the city and surrounding region have been developing their …
Ritual Gone Wrong
What We Learn from Ritual Disruption
Inbunden, 2016
2444 kr
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The discipline of religious studies has, historically, tended to focus on discrete ritual mistakes that occur in the context of individual performances outlined in ethnographic or sociological studies, and scholars have largely dismissed the fact that there are extensive discussions of ritual …
Ritual Gone Wrong
What We Learn from Ritual Disruption
Häftad, 2016
781 kr
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The discipline of religious studies has, historically, tended to focus on discrete ritual mistakes that occur in the context of individual performances outlined in ethnographic or sociological studies, and scholars have largely dismissed the fact that there are extensive discussions of ritual …
Knowing Body, Moving Mind
Ritualizing and Learning at Two Buddhist Centers
Inbunden, 2011
1034 kr
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Knowing Body, Moving Mind investigates ritualizing and learning in introductory meditation classes at two Buddhist centers in Toronto, Canada. The centers, Friends of the Heart and Chandrakirti, are led and attended by Western (sometimes called "convert') Buddhists: that is, people from …
Subversive Spiritualities
How Rituals Enact the World
Inbunden, 2012
1628 kr
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Even in the twenty-first century some two-thirds of the world's peoples--the world's social majority--quietly live in non-modern, non-cosmopolitan places. In such places the multitudinous voices of the spirits, deities, and other denizens of the other-than-human world continue to be heard, continue …
Subversive Spiritualities
How Rituals Enact the World
Häftad, 2012
944 kr
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Even in the twenty-first century some two-thirds of the world's peoples--the world's social majority--quietly live in non-modern, non-cosmopolitan places. In such places the multitudinous voices of the spirits, deities, and other denizens of the other-than-human world continue to be heard, continue …
Negotiating Rites
Häftad, 2011
699 kr
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In common understanding, but also in scholarly discourse, ritual has been long viewed as an undisputed and indisputable part of (especially religious) tradition, performed over and over in the same ways: stable in form, meaningless, preconcieved, and with the aim of creating harmony and enabling a …
The Dancing Dead
Ritual and Religion among the Kapsiki/Higi of North Cameroon and Northeastern Nigeria
Inbunden, 2012
2169 kr
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Walter E. A. van Beek draws on over four decades of extensive fieldwork to offer an in-depth study of the religion of the Kapsiki/Higi, who live in the Mandara Mountains on the border between North Cameroon and Northeast Nigeria. Concentrating on ritual as the core of traditional religion, van Beek …
The Dancing Dead
Ritual and Religion among the Kapsiki/Higi of North Cameroon and Northeastern Nigeria
Häftad, 2012
781 kr
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Walter E. A. van Beek draws on over four decades of extensive fieldwork to offer an in-depth study of the religion of the Kapsiki/Higi, who live in the Mandara Mountains on the border between North Cameroon and Northeast Nigeria. Concentrating on ritual as the core of traditional religion, van Beek …
Looking for Mary Magdalene
Alternative Pilgrimage and Ritual Creativity at Catholic Shrines in France
Av Anna Fedele
Inbunden, 2012
2302 kr
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Anne Fedele offers a comprehensive ethnography of alternative pilgrimages to French Catholic shrines dedicated to Saint Mary Magdalene. Drawing on more than three years of extensive fieldwork, she describes how pilgrims from Italy, Spain, Britain, and the United States interpret Catholic figures, …
Looking for Mary Magdalene
Alternative Pilgrimage and Ritual Creativity at Catholic Shrines in France
Av Anna Fedele
Häftad, 2012
944 kr
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Anne Fedele offers a comprehensive ethnography of alternative pilgrimages to French Catholic shrines dedicated to Saint Mary Magdalene. Drawing on more than three years of extensive fieldwork, she describes how pilgrims from Italy, Spain, Britain, and the United States interpret Catholic figures, …
The Dysfunction of Ritual in Early Confucianism
Inbunden, 2012
2169 kr
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In The Dysfunction of Ritual in Early Confucianism Michael Ing describes how early Confucians coped with situations where their rituals failed to achieve their intended aims. In contrast to most contemporary interpreters of Confucianism, Ing demonstrates that early Confucian texts can be read as …
The Dysfunction of Ritual in Early Confucianism
Häftad, 2012
781 kr
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In The Dysfunction of Ritual in Early Confucianism Michael Ing describes how early Confucians coped with situations where their rituals failed to achieve their intended aims. In contrast to most contemporary interpreters of Confucianism, Ing demonstrates that early Confucian texts can be read as …
A Different Medicine
Postcolonial Healing in the Native American Church
Inbunden, 2013
2234 kr
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Drawing on two years of ethnographic field research among the Navajos, this book explores a controversial Native American ritual and healthcare practice: ceremonial consumption of the psychedelic Peyote cactus in the context of an indigenous postcolonial healing movement called the Native American …
A Different Medicine
Postcolonial Healing in the Native American Church
Häftad, 2013
797 kr
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Drawing on two years of ethnographic field research among the Navajos, this book explores a controversial Native American ritual and healthcare practice: ceremonial consumption of the psychedelic Peyote cactus in the context of an indigenous postcolonial healing movement called the Native American …
Narratives of Sorrow and Dignity
Japanese Women, Pregnancy Loss, and Modern Rituals of Grieving
Inbunden, 2013
2169 kr
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Bardwell L. Smith offers a fresh perspective on mizuko kuyo, the Japanese ceremony performed to bring solace to those who have experienced miscarriage, stillbirth, or abortion. Showing how old and new forms of myth, symbol, doctrine, praxis, and organization combine and overlap in contemporary …
