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Mortal Rituals

Author : Matt Rossano
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231165005
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Mortal Rituals written by Matt Rossano and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 21, 1972, sixteen young survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 were rescued after spending ten weeks stranded at the crash site of their plane, high in the remote Andes Mountains. The incident made international headlines and spawned several best-selling books, fueled partly by the fact that the young men had resorted to cannibalism to survive. Matt Rossano examines this story from an evolutionary perspective, weaving together findings and ideas from anthropology, psychology, religion, and cognitive science. During their ordeal, these young men broke "civilized" taboos to fend off starvation and abandoned "civilized" modes of thinking to maintain social unity and individual sanity. Through the power of ritual, the survivors were able to endure severe emotional and physical hardship. Rossano ties their story to our story, seeing in the mortal rituals of this struggle for survival a reflection of what it means to be human.

Celebrations of Death

Author : Peter Metcalf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521423755
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book Celebrations of Death written by Peter Metcalf and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-10-25 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machine derived contents note: List of illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction to the second edition -- 1. Preliminaries -- Part I. Universals and Culture: 2. Emotional reactions to death -- 3. Symbolic associations of death -- Part II. Death as Transition: 4. The living and the dead: a re-examination of Hertz -- 5. Death rituals and life values: rites of passage reconsidered -- Part III. The Royal Corpse and the Body Politic: 6. The dead king -- 7. The immortal kingship -- Part IV. Seeing Ourselves Anew: 8. American deathways -- Bibliography -- Index.

Promising Rituals

Author : Beatrix Hauser
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000059227
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Promising Rituals written by Beatrix Hauser and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how the performance of rituals influences the understanding that Hindu women form of their own selves, their sense of femininity, identity as well as their role and position in the lived-in world, and vice versa. Drawn from an intensive ethnographic fieldwork in southern Orissa, each section of the book takes a close look at a specific ritual practice, in exploring concepts such as purity/pollution, religious observances (such as fasting), deity possession, associated beliefs and attitudes, as also celebrated traditions such as Thākurānī Yātrā, local processions, and the role of female ritual specialists. The study uses the premise that religious practices in themselves are neither restricting nor liberating; rather rituals provide a perceptual context with the ability to affect the self-understanding of participants, as also their conception of agency, in a way that spills across non-ritual spheres. Conceptualizing gender identity as resulting from seen, but mostly unnoticed, everyday activities and approaching cultural performances as sites of collectively defining the self, the author offers a telling and vivid account of how women perceive, realize and reflect on religious ideas, while engaging in rituals and, by doing so, negotiate complex gender norms. The book also examines the assumptions of recent theories on the social construction of identities, often-debated impact of religion on women, performativity, self-identity, and ritual agency in considering ‘doing’ gender in a traditional, non-Western context. This book will serve as essential reading for scholars of sociology, anthropology, gender studies, cultural studies, history, religion, performance, and folklore studies.

Death and Changing Rituals

Author : J. Rasmus Brandt
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1782976396
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (829 download)

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Download or read book Death and Changing Rituals written by J. Rasmus Brandt and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The forms by which a deceased person may be brought to rest are as many as there are causes of death. In most societies the disposal of the corpse is accompanied by some form of celebration or ritual which may range from a simple act of deportment in solitude to the engagement of large masses of people in laborious and creative festivities. In a funerary context the term ritual may be taken to represent a process that incorporates all the actions performed and thoughts expressed in connection with a dying and dead person, from the preparatory pre-death stages to the final deposition of the corpse and the post-mortem stages of grief and commemoration. The contributions presented here are focused not on the examination of different funerary practices, their function and meaning, but on the changes of such rituals _ how and when they occurred and how they may be explained. Based on case studies from a range of geographical regions and from different prehistoric and historical periods, a range of key themes are examined concerning belief and ritual, body and deposition, place, performance and commemoration, exploring a complex web of practices.

The Hidden Powers of Ritual

Author : Bradd Shore
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262546582
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book The Hidden Powers of Ritual written by Bradd Shore and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating overview of the development, benefits, and importance of ritual in everyday life, written by a leading cognitive anthropologist. The Hidden Powers of Ritual is an engaging introduction to ritual studies that presents ritual as an evolved form of human behavior of almost unimaginable significance to our species. Every day across the globe, people gather to share meals, brew caffeinated beverages, or honor their ancestors. In this book, Bradd Shore, a respected anthropologist, reaches beyond familiar “big-R” rituals to present life’s humbler, overshadowed moments, exploring everything from the Balinese pelebon to baseball to family Zoom sessions in the age of Covid to the sobering reenactment rituals surrounding the Moore’s Ford lynchings. In each ritual, Shore shows how our capacity to ritualize behavior is a remarkable part of the human story. Encompassing both the commonly unlabeled “interaction rituals” studied by sociologists and the symbolically elaborated sacred rituals of religious studies, Shore organizes his conception around detailed case studies drawn from international research and personal experience, weaving scholarship with a memoir of a life encompassed by ritual. A probing exploration that matches breadth with accessibility, The Hidden Powers of Ritual is a provocative contribution to ritual theory that will appeal to a wide range of readers curious about why these unique repetitive acts matter in our lives.

Rituals of Childhood

Author : Ivan G. Marcus
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030015674X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Rituals of Childhood written by Ivan G. Marcus and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In medieval times, when a Jewish boy of five began religious schooling, he was carried from home to a teacher and placed on the teacher's lap. He was then asked to recite the Hebrew alphabet and lick honey from the slate on which it was written, to eat magically inscribed cooked peeled eggs and cakes, to recite an incantation against a demon of forgetfulness, and then to go down to the riverbank with the teacher, where he was told that his future study of the Torah, like the rushing river, would never end. This book--Ivan Marcus's erudite and novel interpretation of this rite of passage--presents a new anthropological historical approach to Jewish culture and acculturation in medieval Christian Europe. Marcus traces ancient Jewish and Greco-Roman elements in the rite and then analyzes it from different perspectives, making use of narrative, legal, poetic, ethnographic, and pictorial sources, as well as firsthand accounts. He then describes contemporary medieval Christian images and initiation rites--including the eucharist and the Madonna and child--as contexts within which to understand the ceremony. He is the first to investigate how medieval Jews were aware of, drew upon, and polemically transformed Christian religious symbols into Jewish counterimages in order to affirm the truth of Judaism and to make sense of living as Jews in an intensely Christian culture.

Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore

Author : Tong Chee Kiong
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135798435
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore written by Tong Chee Kiong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a cultural analysis of the symbols of death - flesh, blood, bones, souls, time numbers, food and money - Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore throws light upon the Chinese perception of death and how they cope with its eventuality. In the seeming mass of religious rituals and beliefs, it suggests that there is an underlying logic to the rituals. This in turn leads Kiong to examine the interrelationship between death and the socioeconomic value system of China as a whole.

The Minds of Gods

Author : Benjamin Grant Purzycki
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350265713
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Minds of Gods written by Benjamin Grant Purzycki and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are humans obsessed with divine minds? What do gods know and what do they care about? What happens to us and our relationships when gods are involved? Drawing from neuroscience, evolutionary, cultural, and applied anthropology, social psychology, religious studies, philosophy, technology, and cognitive and political sciences, The Minds of Gods probes these questions from a multitude of naturalistic perspectives. Each chapter offers brief intellectual histories of their topics, summarizes current cutting-edge questions in the field, and points to areas in need of attention from future researchers. Through an innovative theoretical framework that combines evolutionary and cognitive approaches to religion, this book brings together otherwise disparate literatures to focus on a topic that has comprised a lasting, central obsession of our species.

Daily Rituals

Author : Mason Currey
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0330512498
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Daily Rituals written by Mason Currey and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Marx to Murakami and Beethoven to Bacon, 'Daily Rituals' examines the working routines of more than a 160 of the greatest philosophers, writers, composers and artists ever to have lived. Filled with fascinating insights on the mechanics of genius and entertaining stories of the personalities behind it, it is irresistibly addictive and utterly inspiring

Rituals of Manhood

Author : Gilbert H. Herdt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351321307
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Rituals of Manhood written by Gilbert H. Herdt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rituals of Manhood provides some of the most dramatic and richly textured accounts of ritual passages known to anthropologists of the late twentieth century. When in an earlier time anthropologists and sociologists described collective initiation rituals, the political and gender aspects of these practices were seldom underscored. Today, the power relationships of the body and domination, and the social arena of gender politics are widely regarded as critical to the cultural meaning and interpretation.

Mighty Stories, Dangerous Rituals

Author : Herbert Anderson
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506454801
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Mighty Stories, Dangerous Rituals written by Herbert Anderson and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shaping our journey into the Divine This moving and enlightening book presents us with a compelling vision of what can happen when we take the opportunity to connect stories and rituals--a vision of individuals and communities transformed through a deeper sense of connection to our loved ones, our communities, and God. Herbert Anderson and Edward Foley reveal how when stories and rituals work together, they have the potential to be both mighty and dangerous--mighty in their ability to lift us up and help us make these connections beyond ourselves and dangerous in challenging us to learn to live with complexity and contradiction. They show how much more meaningful a baptism, wedding, or funeral can be when liturgy is made to include and recognize the personal stories of those involved. Suddenly, these familiar life-cycle rituals are infused with new life as participants become connected in a narrative web linking past and present, human and divine. Newly created rituals can also help us connect our stories to the divine story, giving meaning to what we experience and bringing us closer to God. Ministers, worship leaders, and pastoral caregivers can use this approach to storytelling and ritual to find ways to bring together worship and pastoral care.

The Origin Of Our Rituals

Author : Erick Sandstad
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1481724932
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book The Origin Of Our Rituals written by Erick Sandstad and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE AUTHOR’S INTERWOVEN DESCRIPTIONS OF HISTORIC DATA PROVIDE A SENSE OF THE IMPORTANT ROLE THAT RITUALS HAVE PLAYED IN THE EVERYDAY LIFE OF CHRISTIANS FOR THE PAST TWO MILLENNIA. THROUGH CONCISE AND CANDID ACCOUNTS ACCOMPANIED WITH A DEEP UNDERSTANDING OF THE FAITH, SANDSTAD INVITES US ALL TO BECOME PASSIONATE ABOUT WHAT WE BELIEVE AND PRACTICE IN ORDER TO CHERISH, TRANSMIT AND RADIATE THE BEAUTY OF THE CATHOLIC HERITAGE. “What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too, and it cannot be all of a sudden entirely forbidden or even considered harmful. It behooves all of us to preserve the riches which have developed in the Church’s faith and prayer, and to give them their proper place.” -Pope Benedict XVI- Vatican City

Sacred Killing

Author : Anne Porter
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1575066769
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Killing written by Anne Porter and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2012-09-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is sacrifice? How can we identify it in the archaeological record? And what does it tell us about the societies that practice it? Sacred Killing: The Archaeology of Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East investigates these and other questions through the evidence for human and animal sacrifice in the Near East from the Neolithic to the Hellenistic periods. Drawing on sociocultural anthropology and history in addition to archaeology, the book also includes evidence from ancient China and a riveting eyewitness account and analysis of sacrifice in contemporary India, which engage some of the key issues at stake. Sacred Killing vividly presents a variety of methods and theories in the study of one of the most profound and disturbing ritual activities humans have ever practiced.

Sacred Origins of Profound Things

Author : Charles Panati
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101656077
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Origins of Profound Things written by Charles Panati and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1996-12-01 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this enlightening and entertaining work, Charles Panati explores the origins of hundreds of religious rituals, customs, and practices in many faiths, the reasons for religious holidays and sacred symbols, and the meanings of vestments, sacraments, devotions, and prayers. Its many revelations include: * Why the Star of David became the Jewish counterpart of the Christian cross * What mortal remains of the Buddha are venerated today * How the diamond engagement ring became a standard * That the first pope was a happily married man * How Hindu thinkers arrived at their concept of reincarnation * Why Jews don't eat pork, why some Muslims don't eat certain vegetables, and how some Christians came to observe meatless Fridays Sacred Origins of Profound Things is an indispensable resource for all those interested in the history of religion and the history of ideas--and an inspiring guide to those seeking to understand their faith.

Theorizing Rituals

Author : Jens Kreinath
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004153438
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Theorizing Rituals written by Jens Kreinath and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume two of Theorizing Rituals mainly consists of an annotated bibliography of more than 400 items covering those books, edited volumes and essays that are considered most relevant for the field of ritual theory. Instead of proposing yet another theory of ritual, the bibliography is a comprehensive monument documenting four decades of theorizing rituals.

The Power of Ten

Author : R. F. Licari
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1504346378
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Power of Ten written by R. F. Licari and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2015-12-10 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Power of Ten is an inspired work that successfully intersects dimensional theology, spiritual theory, and temporal existence. You and author R. F. Licari become fellow classmates in a classroom called Earth, a dualistic, dimensional reality that has conflict as the main course of study. However, here Licari provides a possible lesson plan that can enable the reader to transcend individual conflictand with enough numbers, may just prompt a new global consciousness. Join R. F. Licari as he guides you through ten diverse human attributes that when fully understood become ten unifying spiritual powers. This amazing journey will help move you from sleeping ego to awakened entity as you rediscover the existent conduit that lays between multi-dimensional comprehension (finite possibility) and spiritual awareness (infinite opportunity). Perhaps it will assist you even in the recalling of your true purposewhich is your unique spiritual plan. Life experience and awareness, research and personal discovery come together to enable the author to share this gift of gratitude and renewalwhich in turn can provide the reader abundant opportunity for personal transformation. Tap into Your Ten Powers!

Rituals of Literature

Author : Gian Balsamo
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838755495
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (554 download)

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Download or read book Rituals of Literature written by Gian Balsamo and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Balsamo's "Rituals of Literature" is devoted to Joyce's and Dante's special contributions to he tradition of Christian epics, born out of Biblical stories and Homeric poems. By highlighting the integrated nature of its typical tropes, Joyce and Danteestablish the historical identity of the Christian epic as a distinct literary genre.