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Book Synopsis Fictive Ritual by : Ronald L. Grimes
Download or read book Fictive Ritual written by Ronald L. Grimes and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-01-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fictive Ritual explores the ritual dimensions of literary fiction, drama, and autobiography. Among the works it considers are Flannery O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away, Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King, Jean Genet's The Blacks: A Clown Show, Elie Wiesel's Gates of the Forest, Jean-Paul Sartre's The Words, Machado de Assis' Dom Casmurro, and Søren Kierkegaard's Repetition.
Book Synopsis Reading, Writing, and Ritualizing by : Ronald L. Grimes
Download or read book Reading, Writing, and Ritualizing written by Ronald L. Grimes and published by Washington, D.C. : Pastoral Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of studies on ritual and ritualizing leads the reader through religious
Book Synopsis Mock Ritual in the Modern Era by : Reginald McGinnis
Download or read book Mock Ritual in the Modern Era written by Reginald McGinnis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-02 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 become ritualized, and other ways in which supposedly sham ritual may survive its "outing." This volume traces the evolution of "mock ritual" in various forms throughout the modern era, as found in literary, historical, and anthropological texts as well as encyclopedias, newspapers, and films. Mock Ritual in the Modern Era places famous eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors in dialogue with contemporary popular culture, from Diderot, Sterne, and Flaubert to the TV shows Survivor and Judge Judy, and from Voltaire to the Charlie Hebdo tragedy of 2015. Ritualistic and mock ritualistic aspects of comedy and ridicule are considered along with those, notably, of sexuality, medicine, art, education, and justice.
Book Synopsis Reading, Writing, and Ritualizing by : Ronald L. Grimes
Download or read book Reading, Writing, and Ritualizing written by Ronald L. Grimes and published by Washington, D.C. : Pastoral Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of studies on ritual and ritualizing leads the reader through religious
Book Synopsis The Craft of Ritual Studies by : Ronald L. Grimes
Download or read book The Craft of Ritual Studies written by Ronald L. Grimes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readership: Students and scholars of ritual studies, religious studies, anthropology
Book Synopsis Tantra, Ritual Performance, and Politics in Nepal and Kerala by : Matthew Martin
Download or read book Tantra, Ritual Performance, and Politics in Nepal and Kerala written by Matthew Martin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, Tantra, Ritual Performance and Politics in Nepal and Kerala offers a comparative approach to Tantric mediumship as observed in two locales: Navadurgā rituals in Bhaktapur, Nepal, and Teyyāṭṭam in North Kerala.
Book Synopsis Ritual Innovation in the Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism by : Nathan MacDonald
Download or read book Ritual Innovation in the Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism written by Nathan MacDonald and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are the rituals in the Hebrew Bible of great antiquity, practiced unchanged from earliest times, or are they the products of later innovators? The canonical text is clear: ritual innovation is repudiated as when Jeroboam I of Israel inaugurate a novel cult at Bethel and Dan. Most rituals are traced back to Moses. From Julius Wellhausen to Jacob Milgrom, this issue has divided critical scholarship. With the rich documentation from the late Second Temple period, such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, it is apparent that rituals were changed. Were such rituals practiced, or were they forms of textual imagination? How do rituals change and how are such changes authorized? Do textual innovation and ritual innovation relate? What light might ritual changes between the Hebrew Bible and late Second Temple texts shed on the history of ritual in the Hebrew Bible? The essays in this volume engage the various issues that arise when rituals are considered as practices that may be invented and subject to change. A number of essays examine how biblical texts show evidence of changing ritual practices, some use textual change to discuss related changes in ritual practice, while others discuss evidence for ritual change from material culture.
Book Synopsis Spiritual Kinship as Social Practice by : Bernhard Jussen
Download or read book Spiritual Kinship as Social Practice written by Bernhard Jussen and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book deals with kinship in the early Middle Ages. Most scholars agree in theory that kinship is not a biological fact but a universally deployable system for structuring social relations. In empirical practice, however, research on kinship has focused almost exclusively on descent and alliance. This book addresses kinship beyond these concepts. It is a study of godparenthood and adoption in Frankish society at the time when Roman adoption was disappearing and godparenthood was being invented as a social tool."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Book Synopsis Ritual Structures in Chicana Fiction by : Helane Androne
Download or read book Ritual Structures in Chicana Fiction written by Helane Androne and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues for the necessary and further examination of the sacred as it is ritualized within Chicana fiction. It suggests that religious, spiritual, linguistic and political symbolisms reveal rites that structure narrative performances of coping with and healing from trauma. Helane Androne examines these rites of spirit, service, and story as they occur in Ana Castillo’s So Far From God, Denise Chávez’s Face of An Angel, and Sandra Cisneros’ Caramelo. Beginning with the implications of Gloria Anzaldúa’s spiritual vision of Chicana identity alongside structural principles of ritual criticism, this study extends the discourse about the impact of the sacred in Chicana fiction. an>
Book Synopsis Ritual Words and Narrative Worlds in the Book of Leviticus by : Bryan D. Bibb
Download or read book Ritual Words and Narrative Worlds in the Book of Leviticus written by Bryan D. Bibb and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that literary features and ritual dynamics within the book of Leviticus enlighten each other. The first two chapters establish that one may read Leviticus as a coherent literary work and define the genre of Leviticus as "narrativized ritual," a complex blending of descriptive narrative and prescriptive ritual. In conversation with Catherine Bell, they present several aspects of the text that are ritualized and show how this ritualization implies a negotiation of power relations among participants. The third and fourth chapters examine the first half of Leviticus, both the legal sections in Lev. 1-7 and 11-15 and the narratives in Lev. 8-10 and 16. These sections alternate between establishing the ritual system and exposing gaps and ambiguities in that system.Chapter 5 turns to the second half of Leviticus, traditionally called the Holiness Code. The ritual language found in this section is less formal and precise, mirroring the way in which the concept of holiness is expanded and extended to the whole people. As this material concludes the book, it relativizes and democratizes the strict ritual system contained in the first half.
Book Synopsis Text and Ritual in the Pentateuch by : Christophe Nihan
Download or read book Text and Ritual in the Pentateuch written by Christophe Nihan and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first five books of the Hebrew Bible contain a significant number of texts describing ritual practices. Yet it is often unclear how these sources would have been understood or used by ancient audiences in the actual performance of cult. This volume explores the processes of ritual textualization (the creation of a written version of a ritual) in ancient Israel by probing the main conceptual and methodological issues that inform the study of this topic in the Pentateuch. This systematic and comparative study of text and ritual in the first five books of the Hebrew Bible maps the main areas of consensus and disagreement among scholars engaged in articulating new models for understanding the relationship between text and ritual and explores the importance of comparative evidence for the study of pentateuchal rituals. Topics include ritual textualization in ancient Anatolia, Egypt, Greece, and Mesopotamia; the importance of archaeology and materiality for the study of text and ritual in ancient Israel; the relationship between ritual textualization and standardization in the Pentateuch; the reception of pentateuchal ritual texts in Second Temple writings and rabbinic literature; and the relationship between text and ritual in the Dead Sea Scrolls. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Dorothea Erbele-Küster, Daniel K. Falk, Yitzhaq Feder, Christian Frevel, William K. Gilders, Dominique Jaillard, Giuseppina Lenzo, Lionel Marti, Patrick Michel, Rüdiger Schmitt, Jeremy D. Smoak, and James W. Watts.
Book Synopsis Rituals of Marginality by : Carlos G. Vélez-Ibañez
Download or read book Rituals of Marginality written by Carlos G. Vélez-Ibañez and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this political ethnography of the "marginalized" population of Netzahuacoyotl Izcalli, the fourth largest city in Mexico, Carlos V�lez-Iba�ez shows that although marginalized groups seldom emerge the clear winners of political struggles, they gain a sense of autonomy and social power that can never be erased.
Book Synopsis Essays on Detective Fiction by : Bernard Benstock
Download or read book Essays on Detective Fiction written by Bernard Benstock and published by Springer. This book was released on 1983-12-15 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Family and Household Religion by : Rainer Albertz
Download or read book Family and Household Religion written by Rainer Albertz and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2014-05-30 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the most recent collective contribution of a group of biblical scholars and archaeologists who are engaged in an ongoing debate about the nature of family and household religion in ancient Israel and its environment. It is intended to complement the volume Household and Family Religion in Antiquity, edited by John Bodel and Saul M. Olyan, which grew out of a conference held at Brown University in 2005 on household and family religion in the ancient Mediterranean world, with an emphasis on cross-cultural comparison. Several meetings after the Brown conference carried the theme forward, and a fourth meeting at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster in April 2009 emphasized theoretical and methodological challenges facing scholars of household and family religion (e.g., the conceptualization of family/household religion, the problem of identifying pertinent artifacts, and the difficulties inherent in using texts together with material evidence). This volume is a direct outgrowth of the Münster meeting. For both the meeting and the volume, the goal was to bring together a group of specialists in biblical studies, epigraphy, and archaeology who would utilize a variety of humanistic and social-scientific approaches to the data and would also be willing to engage in dialogue and debate; during the conference in Münster, there was much vigorous intellectual engagement. The essays published here reflect the energy of that conference and will contribute, both individually and collectively, to the advancement of our knowledge of Israelite family and household religion.
Book Synopsis The Ways of Friendship by : Amit Desai
Download or read book The Ways of Friendship written by Amit Desai and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friendship is an essential part of human experience, involving ideas of love and morality as well as material and pragmatic concerns. Making and having friends is a central aspect of everyday life in all human societies. Yet friendship is often considered of secondary significance in comparison to domains such as kinship, economics and politics. How important are friends in different cultural contexts? What would a study of society viewed through the lens of friendship look like? Does friendship affect the shape of society as much as society moulds friendship? Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Europe, this volume offers answers to these questions and examines the ideology and practice of friendship as it is embedded in wider social contexts and transformations.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology by : Alan Barnard
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology written by Alan Barnard and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1996 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a guide to the ideas, arguments and history of the discipline, this volume discusses human social and cultural life in all its diversity and difference. Theory, ethnography and history are combined in over 230 entries on topics
Book Synopsis Ritual Performance in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor by : Cynthia Seel
Download or read book Ritual Performance in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor written by Cynthia Seel and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2001 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The study begins with an exploration of O'Connor's Southern milieu, a survey of relevant scholarship (particularly feminist theory), and a clarification of essential terms and concepts surrounding ritual. The remaining chapters are then dedicated to the six short stories, each of which depicts certain ritual patterns and archetypal models. In this way, the study furnishes a prototype that can be applied to O'Connor's entire oeuvre." "Ritual Performance in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor is an excellent resource for teachers and students of American literature, Southern Studies, feminist theory, and ritual studies. Because it is story-centered rather than theory-driven, it will appeal to those who are looking for ways to read (and teach) O'Connor's astonishing stories more deeply."--BOOK JACKET.
