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Reinventing Ritual

Author : Daniel Belasco
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Reinventing Ritual written by Daniel Belasco and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guidebook to the most current trends in contemporary Jewish art and design, Reinventing Ritual provides an unprecedented look at the work and thought of contemporary artists as they respond to the needs and practices of traditional culture. Beautifully illustrated with new art from Israel, Europe, and the Americas, this publication features both traditional and avant-garde sculpture, textiles, architecture, metalwork, and ceramics by forty leading artists. Author Daniel Belasco surveys current trends in Jewish ritual art and the influences of feminism, environmentalism, multiculturalism, and new media; Julie Lasky provides a groundbreaking discussion of the role of recycling and social consciousness in contemporary Jewish design; Danya Ruttenberg, a recently ordained rabbi, offers a lively perspective on the constantly evolving Jewish impulse "to concretize the encounter with the Divine"; Arnold M. Eisen writes an absorbing and personal commentary on the role of ritual in Jewish life today; and Tamar Rubin contributes an illustrated timeline covering key Jewish cultural and historical events from 1994 to 2008. Published in association with The Jewish Museum Exhibition Schedule: The Jewish Museum, New York (September 13, 2009-February 7, 2010) Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco (April 22 - September 28, 2010)

Deeply into the Bone

Author : Ronald L. Grimes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520929630
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Deeply into the Bone written by Ronald L. Grimes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-06-29 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades, North Americans have become increasingly interested in understanding and reclaiming the rites that mark significant life passages. In the absence of meaningful rites of passage, we speed through the dangerous intersections of life and often come to regret missing an opportunity to contemplate a child's birth, mark the arrival of maturity, or meditate on the loss of a loved one. Providing a highly personal, thoroughly informed, and cross-cultural perspective on rites of passage for general readers, this book illustrates the power of rites to help us navigate life's troublesome transitions. The work of a major scholar who has spent years writing and teaching about ritual, Deeply into the Bone instigates a conversation in which readers can fruitfully reflect on their own experiences of passage. Covering the significant life events of birth, initiation, marriage, and death, chapters include first-person stories told by individuals who have undergone rites of passage, accounts of practices from around the world, brief histories of selected ritual traditions, and critical reflections probing popular assumptions about ritual. The book also explores innovative rites for other important events such as beginning school, same-sex commitment ceremonies, abortion, serious illness, divorce, and retirement. Taking us confidently into the abyss separating the spiritual from the social scientific, the personal from the scholarly, and the narrative from the analytical, Grimes synthesizes an impressive amount of information to help us find more insightful ways of comprehending life's great transitions. As we face our increasingly complex society, Deeply into the Bone will help us reclaim the power of rites and understand their effect on our lives.

Reinventing the Meal

Author : Pavel G Somov
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
ISBN 13 : 160882103X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Reinventing the Meal written by Pavel G Somov and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s nothing quite like a hot, soothing bowl of soup. It’s a leisurely meal—a purposeful one that offers pause for reflection between every savory spoonful. What if you approached every meal as if it were that delicious bowl of soup? In Reinventing the Meal, you’ll learn how to reconnect with your body, mind, and world with a three-course approach to mindful eating. Inside, you’ll find mindfulness exercises to help you slow down and enjoy your food, pattern-interruption meditations to infuse presence into your eating life, and unique stress management tips to prevent emotional overeating. In addition, you’ll discover a wealth of philosophical perspectives that will inspire you to focus on the quality of your eating experience, rather than on the quantity of what you eat. Designed to help you embrace the ritual of eating (and discover the power of mindful meditation in the process), this book will ultimately change the way you view your meals—as not only sustenance for the body, but for the soul as well.

Kingship, Ritual, and Royal Ideology in Western Zhou China

Author : Paul Nicholas Vogt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316517616
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Kingship, Ritual, and Royal Ideology in Western Zhou China written by Paul Nicholas Vogt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book shows how the kings of the Western Zhou period used ritual to create and hold onto their power.

Ritual Words and Narrative Worlds in the Book of Leviticus

Author : Bryan D. Bibb
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0567027139
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)

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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.

Bridging the Gap

Author : Gerald A. Klingbeil
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
ISBN 13 : 157506801X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Bridging the Gap written by Gerald A. Klingbeil and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 2007 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is intended to introduce university and seminary students and scholars to the neglected field of ritual studies, particularly within the larger context of biblical and theological studies. At the same time, the author hopes to further the discussion by interacting with numerous scholars in the field, providing an extensive bibliography of relevant works. Klingbeil defines the basic terms used in ritual studies and explains the concepts involved in interpreting biblical ritual. He offers a broad history of the study of biblical ritual, beginning with the critiques of ritual found in the Old Testament prophetic books and surveying attitudes toward ritual down to modern times. Drawing on the fields of anthropology and sociology, as well as his decade of work in the field, Klingbeil presents a comprehensive reading strategy for biblical ritual texts. In addition, he explores connections between ritual studies and theological research. This ground-breaking study promises to generate discussion about biblical ritual and provides an excellent introduction to this growing field of study for students and scholars.

Yoruba Ritual

Author : Margaret Thompson Drewal
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253112737
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (531 download)

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Download or read book Yoruba Ritual written by Margaret Thompson Drewal and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1992-03-22 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yoruba peoples of southwestern Nigeria conceive of rituals as journeys -- sometimes actual, sometimes virtual. Performed as a parade or a procession, a pilgrimage, a masking display, or possession trance, the journey evokes the reflexive, progressive, transformative experience of ritual participation. Yoruba Ritual is an original and provocative study of these practices. Using a performance paradigm, Margaret Thompson Drewal forges a new theoretical and methodological approach to the study of ritual that is thoroughly grounded in close analysis of the thoughts and actions of the participants. Challenging traditional notions of ritual as rigid, stereotypic, and invariant, Drewal reveals ritual to be progressive, transformative, generative, and reflexive and replete with simultaneity, multifocality, contingency, indeterminacy, and intertextuality. Throughout the book prominence is given to the intentionality of actors as knowledgeable agents who transform ritual itself through play and improvisation. Integral to the narrative are interpolations about performances and their meanings by Kolawole Ositola, a scholar of Yoruba oral tradition, ritual practitioner, diviner, and master performer. Rich descriptions of rituals relating to birth, death, reincarnation, divination, and constructions of gender are rendered all the more vivid by a generous selection of field photos of actual performances.

Ritual Innovation

Author : Brian K. Pennington
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438469039
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Ritual Innovation written by Brian K. Pennington and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges prevailing conceptions of what religious ritual does and how it achieves its ends. Religious rituals are often seen as unchanging and ahistorical bearers of long-standing traditions. But as this book demonstrates, ritual is a lively platform for social change and innovation in the religions of South Asia. Drawing from Hindu and Jain examples in India, Nepal, and North America,the essays in this volume, written by renowned scholars of religion, explore how the intentional, conscious, and public invention or alteration of ritual can effect dramatic social transformation, whether in dethroning a Nepali king or sanctioning same-sex marriage. Ritual Innovation shows how the very idea of ritual as a conservative force misreads the history of religion by overlooking rituals inherent creative potential and its adaptability to new contexts and circumstances. The breadth of coverage in Ritual Innovation is extraordinary and refreshing in terms of the types of contemporary ritual practices and practitioners receiving attention, not to mention the geographic spread across South Asia. This book makes a significant contribution to the scholarly literature on South Asian religions and contemporary Hinduism. Karline McLain, author of The Afterlife of Sai Baba: Competing Visions of a Global Saint

Liturgy and the Social Sciences

Author : Nathan Mitchell
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814625118
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book Liturgy and the Social Sciences written by Nathan Mitchell and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Is ritual a "forgotten way of doing things'?" That is the question posed famously by Romano Guardini in a letter written in 1964 to liturgists meeting in the German city of Mainz. Guardini believed that the future of liturgical renewal lay not in "improved texts," nor in the recovery of some mythic "golden age," nor in the "rearrangement of furniture," but in relearning ritual behavior. Christian ritual, Guardini believed, is not the contemplative act of an individual but the public deed of an assembly -- a community gathered in faith and prayer in obedience to Jesus' command. Can people and presiders today relearn this communal way of "doing"? Can they learn to "read" ritual acts simply by doing them, by performing them -- without being self-conscious, theatrical, and fussy? Over the past thirty-five years, Christian liturgists have sought to reinterpret ritual's multiple meanings by transplanting insights from the social sciences (sociology, anthropology). Have the transplants worked? This book tries to answer that question.

Inventing Jewish Ritual

Author : Vanessa L. Ochs
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
ISBN 13 : 0827611188
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (276 download)

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Download or read book Inventing Jewish Ritual written by Vanessa L. Ochs and published by Jewish Publication Society. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of innovation and creativity in Jewish ritual

Awkward Rituals

Author : Dana W. Logan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226818500
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Awkward Rituals written by Dana W. Logan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-05-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh account of early American religious history that argues for a new understanding of ritual. In the years between the American Revolution and the Civil War, there was an awkward persistence of sovereign rituals, vestiges of a monarchical past that were not easy to shed. In Awkward Rituals, Dana Logan focuses our attention on these performances, revealing the ways in which governance in the early republic was characterized by white Protestants reenacting the hierarchical authority of a seemingly rejected king. With her unique focus on embodied action, rather than the more common focus on discourse or law, Logan makes an original contribution to debates about the relative completeness of America’s Revolution. Awkward Rituals theorizes an under-examined form of action: rituals that do not feel natural even if they sometimes feel good. This account challenges common notions of ritual as a force that binds society and synthesizes the self. Ranging from Freemason initiations to evangelical societies to missionaries posing as sailors, Logan shows how white Protestants promoted a class-based society while simultaneously trumpeting egalitarianism. She thus redescribes ritual as a box to check, a chore to complete, an embarrassing display of theatrical verve. In Awkward Rituals, Logan emphasizes how ritual distinctively captures what does not change through revolution.

Revisioning Ritual

Author : Simon J. Bronner
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1800857411
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Revisioning Ritual written by Simon J. Bronner and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating analysis of how the study of ritual is critical to illuminating what is Jewish about Jewishness.

The Sacraments of the Law and the Law of the Sacraments

Author : Judith Hahn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009330160
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Sacraments of the Law and the Law of the Sacraments written by Judith Hahn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacraments are powerful actions. With their help, law, religion, and other social practices change our social world.

Reinventing Evidence in Social Inquiry

Author : R. Biernacki
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137007281
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Reinventing Evidence in Social Inquiry written by R. Biernacki and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-08-08 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revisiting the dominant scientific method, 'coding,' with which investigators from sociology to literary criticism have sampled texts and catalogued their cultural messages, the author demonstrates that the celebrated hard outputs rest on misleading samples and on unfeasible classifying of the texts' meanings.

Religious and Social Ritual

Author : Michael B. Aune
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791495442
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Religious and Social Ritual written by Michael B. Aune and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1996-02-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Religious and Social Ritual, ten scholars examine particular rituals as a special kind of cultural performance or interaction in a wide variety of traditions and locations. In so doing, they surface timely theoretical and methodological issues and engage fundamental questions such as how and why these performances and interactions do what they do. Each investigation is conducted with careful attention to cultural, cross-cultural, social, and contextual factors that make it possible to enter into the ritual participant's world and worldview. Moreover, these essays take seriously the interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary emphasis of ritual studies and incorporate the historical, methodological, and autobiographical situations of their authors in responsible and graceful ways. For scholars, teachers, and students of ritual in a variety of settings, Religious and Social Ritual provides both significant scholarship and an invitation to further conversation about one of the most important topics in the contemporary study of religion and culture.

Beyond Ritual

Author : Siobhán Garrigan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351955543
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Ritual written by Siobhán Garrigan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Beyond Ritual, Siobhan Garrigan uses Habermas's theory of communicative action to suggest two things: first, a method by which theology can access the ritual symbols by which faith is formed; and secondly a metaphor of intersubjectivity with which theology can propose an interpretative, rather than an instrumental, understanding of sacramentality - and thus of God. Through fieldwork studies of both 'marginal' and 'mainstream' Christian Eucharists, Garrigan develops the conversation between Habermas's philosophy and Christian theology, showing how ritual interactions form, and challenge, our very idea of God.Â

The New Better Off

Author : Courtney E. Martin
Publisher : Seal Press
ISBN 13 : 158005580X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The New Better Off written by Courtney E. Martin and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are we living the good life—and what defines 'good', anyway? Americans today are constructing a completely different framework for success than their parents' generation, using new metrics that TEDWomen speaker and columnist Courtney Martin has termed collectively the "New Better Off". The New Better Off puts a name to the American phenomenon of rejecting the traditional dream of a 9-to-5 job, home ownership, and a nuclear family structure—illuminating the alternate ways Americans are seeking happiness and success. Including commentary on recent changes in how we view work, customs and community, marriage, rituals, money, living arrangements, and spirituality, The New Better Off uses personal stories and social analysis to explore the trends shaping our country today. Martin covers growing topics such as freelancing, collaborative consumption, communal living, and the breaking down of gender roles. The New Better Off is about the creative choices individuals are making in their vocational and personal lives, but it’s also about the movements, formal and informal, that are coalescing around the New Better Off idea—people who are reinventing the social safety net and figuring out how to truly better their own communities.