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Sacred Material

Author : John Nava
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781626400412
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Material written by John Nava and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-03 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SACRED MATERIAL details the historic saga of the creation of The Communion of Saints, The Baptism of the Lord, and The New Jerusalem, the monumental tapestry triptych by California artist John Nava. Nava shares the unprecedented journey of his tapestries from oils on canvas in his Ojai studio, to the looms of Belgium, to the walls of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles. SACRED MATERIAL includes a six-page foldout documenting The Communion of Saints tapestries and a complete hagiography of the 135 saints and blesseds portrayed in the world¿s greatest modern-day tapestry commission. A feast for the eyes. . . and the soul.

Material Culture and Sacred Landscape

Author : Peter Jordan
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 9780759102774
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Material Culture and Sacred Landscape written by Peter Jordan and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2003 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides a concrete example of how foraging societies enculturate and transform the natural environment and, through the use of material objects, create sacred spaces and sites. Using ethnographic and ethnohistorical information about the Khanty of Siberia, Jordan shows the shortcomings of both interpretive and materialist anthropological theorizing about hunters and gatherers. He focuses on the rich and complex relationship between the symbolism of the Khanty, their material culture, and the bringing of meaning to physical places. His examination looks at the topic in both historical and contemporary contexts, and in scales from the core-periphery model of Russian colonialism to the portrait of a single yurt community. Jordan's work will be of importance to those studying cultural anthropology, archaeology, and comparative religion.

Material Culture and Sacred Landscape

Author : Peter Jordan
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 0759116318
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (591 download)

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Download or read book Material Culture and Sacred Landscape written by Peter Jordan and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2003-03-12 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides a concrete example of how foraging societies enculturate and transform the natural environment and, through the use of material objects, create sacred spaces and sites. Using ethnographic and ethnohistorical information about the Khanty of Siberia, Jordan shows the shortcomings of both interpretive and materialist anthropological theorizing about hunters and gatherers. He focuses on the rich and complex relationship between the symbolism of the Khanty, their material culture, and the bringing of meaning to physical places. His examination looks at the topic in both historical and contemporary contexts, and in scales from the core-periphery model of Russian colonialism to the portrait of a single yurt community. Jordan's work will be of importance to those studying cultural anthropology, archaeology, and comparative religion.

Sacred Matters

Author : Tracy Pintchman
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438459432
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Matters written by Tracy Pintchman and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how objects shape the worlds of religious participants across a range of South Asian traditions. Sacred Matters explores the lives of material objects in South Asian religions. Spanning a range of traditions including Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Buddhism, and Christianity, the book demonstrates how sacred items influence and enliven the worlds of religious participants across South Asia and into the diaspora. Contributors examine a variety of objects to describe the ways sacred materials derive and confer meaning and efficacy, emerging from and giving shape to religious and nonreligious realms alike. Material forms of deity and divine power are considered along with commonplace ritual items, including images, clay pots, and camphor. The work also attends to materialitys complex role within the materially suspicious contexts of Islam, Theravada Buddhism, and Roman Catholicism. This engaging collection presents new frameworks for contemplating the ways in which historical, social, and sacred processes intertwine and collectively shape human and divine activity.

Books as Bodies and as Sacred Beings

Author : James W. Watts
Publisher : Comparative Research on Iconic and Performative Texts
ISBN 13 : 9781781798843
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Books as Bodies and as Sacred Beings written by James W. Watts and published by Comparative Research on Iconic and Performative Texts. This book was released on 2020 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume an international team of scholars address the theme of books as sacred beings from an impressively diverse range of primary material and perspectives. Yet, as a group, they meld to engage and advance previous research to solidify the conclusion that human cultures, especially religious groups, often ritualize bodies as sacred books and books as divine beings. The studies collected here not only increase the range of examples of this phenomenon. They also show the wide variety of ways in which the identity of books, bodies and beings gets both ritualized and theorized. The articles are bracketed by an introduction to the collection, and then by a concluding essay that extrapolates the theme of books as sacred beings on a more general level.

Key Terms in Material Religion

Author : S. Brent Plate
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472595475
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Key Terms in Material Religion written by S. Brent Plate and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Material religion is a rapidly growing field, and this volume offers an accessible, critical entry into these new areas of research. Each "key term" uses case studies and is accompanied by a color image – an object, practice, space, or site. The entries cut across geographies, histories, and traditions, offering a versatile and engaging text for the classroom. Key topics covered include: - Icon, ritual, magic, gender, race - Sacred, spirit, technology, - Space, belief, body, brain - Taste, touch, smell, sound, vision Each entry demonstrates in clear and jargon-free prose how the key term figures prominently in understanding the materiality of religion. Written by leading international scholars, all entries are linked by the ways materiality stands at the forefront of the understanding of religion, whether that comes from humanistic, social scientific, artistic, curatorial, or other perspectives. Brent Plate brings his expertise and extensive teaching experience to the comprehensive introduction which introduces students to the themes and methods of the material cultural study of religion. Key Terms in Material Religion provides a much-needed resource for courses on theory and method in religious studies, the anthropology of religion, and the ever-increasing number of courses focused on material religion.

Designing Sacred Spaces

Author : Sherin Wing
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317755901
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Designing Sacred Spaces written by Sherin Wing and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred spaces exemplify some of the most exciting and challenging architecture today. Designing Sacred Spaces tells the inside story of seven architecture firms and their approaches to designing churches, mosques, synagogues and temples, monasteries and retreats. Twenty beautifully illustrated case studies located in Asia, Europe, and North America are showcased alongside discussions with the designers into concept and design development, materiality, and spatial analysis. Complementing these are essays on the cultural, historical, and theoretical meaning and importance of sacred spaces. By exploring the way we see religion and how we understand secular and sacred space, Designing Sacred Spaces reveals how we see ourselves and how we see others. A tour-de-force of first-person narratives, research, and illustrations, this book is a vital desk reference.

Sacred Matters

Author : Tracy Pintchman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438459440
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Matters written by Tracy Pintchman and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how objects shape the worlds of religious participants across a range of South Asian traditions. Sacred Matters explores the lives of material objects in South Asian religions. Spanning a range of traditions including Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Buddhism, and Christianity, the book demonstrates how sacred items influence and enliven the worlds of religious participants across South Asia and into the diaspora. Contributors examine a variety of objects to describe the ways sacred materials derive and confer meaning and efficacy, emerging from and giving shape to religious and nonreligious realms alike. Material forms of deity and divine power are considered along with commonplace ritual items, including images, clay pots, and camphor. The work also attends to materiality’s complex role within the “materially suspicious” contexts of Islam, Theravada Buddhism, and Roman Catholicism. This engaging collection presents new frameworks for contemplating the ways in which historical, social, and sacred processes intertwine and collectively shape human and divine activity. Tracy Pintchman is Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the International Studies Program at Loyola University Chicago. Her books include The Rise of the Goddess in the Hindu Tradition and Guests at God’s Wedding: Celebrating Kartik among the Women of Benares, both published by SUNY Press. Corinne G. Dempsey is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Nazareth College. She is the author of Bringing the Sacred Down to Earth: Adventures in Comparative Religion and The Goddess Lives in Upstate New York: Breaking Convention and Making Home at a North American Hindu Temple.

The Sacred Body

Author : Nicola Laneri
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 178925521X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book The Sacred Body written by Nicola Laneri and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human body represents the perfect element for relating communities of the living with the divine. This is clearly evident in the mythological stories that recount the creation of humans by deities among ancient and contemporaneous societies across a very broad geographical environment. Thus, parts of selected human body parts or skeletal elements can then become an ideal proxy for connecting with the supernatural as demonstrated by the cult of the human skulls among Neolithic communities in the Near East as well as the cult of the relics of Christian saints. The aim of this volume is to undertake a cross-cultural investigation of the role played in antiquity by humans and human remains in creating forms of relationality with the divine. Such an approach will highlight how the human body can be envisioned as part of a broader materialization of religious beliefs that is based on connecting different realms of materiality in perceiving the supernatural by the community of the livings. Case studies on ritual aspects of funerary practices is presented, emphasising the varied roles of body parts in mortuary rituals and as relics. Other papers take a wider look at regional practices in various time periods and cultural contexts to explore the central role of the corpse in the negotiation of death in human culture.

Materiality and the Study of Religion

Author : Tim Hutchings
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317067991
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Materiality and the Study of Religion written by Tim Hutchings and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Material culture has emerged in recent decades as a significant theoretical concern for the study of religion. This book contributes to and evaluates this material turn, presenting thirteen chapters of new empirical research and theoretical reflection from some of the leading international scholars of material religion. Following a model for material analysis proposed in the first chapter by David Morgan, the contributors trace the life cycle of religious materiality through three phases: the production of religious objects, their classification as religious (or non-religious), and their circulation and use in material culture. The chapters in this volume consider how objects become and cease to be sacred, how materiality can be used to contest access to public space and resources, and how religion is embodied and performed by individuals in their everyday lives. Contributors discuss the significance of the materiality of religion across different religious traditions and diverse geographical regions, paying close attention to gender, age, ethnicity, memory and politics. The volume closes with an afterword by Manuel Vásquez.

Sacred Books of the East

Author : Various
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Books of the East written by Various and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sacred Books of the East is a monumental set of English translations of Asian religious texts. The collection was first published in the edition by Max Müller by the Oxford University Press between 1879 and 1910. It includes the essential sacred texts of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, and Islam.

Embodying the Sacred

Author : Nancy E. van Deusen
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822372282
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Embodying the Sacred written by Nancy E. van Deusen and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In seventeenth-century Lima, pious Catholic women gained profound theological understanding and enacted expressions of spiritual devotion by engaging with a wide range of sacred texts and objects, as well as with one another, their families, and ecclesiastical authorities. In Embodying the Sacred, Nancy E. van Deusen considers how women created and navigated a spiritual existence within the colonial city's complex social milieu. Through close readings of diverse primary sources, van Deusen shows that these women recognized the divine—or were objectified as conduits of holiness—in innovative and powerful ways: dressing a religious statue, performing charitable acts, sharing interiorized spiritual visions, constructing autobiographical texts, or offering their hair or fingernails to disciples as living relics. In these manifestations of piety, each of these women transcended the limited outlets available to them for expressing and enacting their faith in colonial Lima, and each transformed early modern Catholicism in meaningful ways.

Sacred Spaces and Religious Traditions in Oriente Cuba

Author : Jualynne E. Dodson
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826343538
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Spaces and Religious Traditions in Oriente Cuba written by Jualynne E. Dodson and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dodson examines the history of traditional religious practices in the Oriente region of contemporary Cuba.

Sacred Species and Sites

Author : Gloria Pungetti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139510126
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Species and Sites written by Gloria Pungetti and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-19 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is being increasingly recognised that cultural and biological diversity are deeply linked and that conservation programmes should take into account the ethical, cultural and spiritual values of nature. With contributions from a range of scholars, practitioners and spiritual leaders from around the world, this book provides new insights into biocultural diversity conservation. It explores sacred landscapes, sites, plants and animals from around the world to demonstrate the links between nature conservation and spiritual beliefs and traditions. Key conceptual topics are connected to case studies, as well as modern and ancient spiritual insights, guiding the reader through the various issues from fundamental theory and beliefs to practical applications. It looks forward to the biocultural agenda, providing guidelines for future research and practice and offering suggestions for improved integration of these values into policy, planning and management.

Sacred Books of the East

Author : Epiphanius Wilson
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred Books of the East written by Epiphanius Wilson and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 1900 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including Selection From The Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, The Koran And The Life Of Buddha.

Sacred Books of the East

Author : Unknown
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465510680
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Books of the East written by Unknown and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Material Christianity

Author : Colleen McDannell
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300074994
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Material Christianity written by Colleen McDannell and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can the religious objects used by nineteenth- and twentieth-century Americans tell us about American Christianity? What is the relationship between the beliefs of the faithful and the landscapes they build? This lavishly illustrated book investigates the history and meaning of Christian material culture in America over the last 150 years. Drawing on a rich array of historical sources and on in-depth interviews with Protestants, Catholics, and Mormons, Colleen McDannell examines the relationship between religion and mass consumption. She describes examples of nineteenth-century religious practice: Victorians burying their dead in cultivated cemetery parks; Protestants producing and displaying elaborate family Bibles; Catholics writing for special water from Lourdes reputed to have miraculous powers. And she looks at today's Christians: Mormons wearing sacred underclothing as a reminder of their religious promises, Catholics debating the design of tasteful churches, and Protestants manufacturing, marketing, and using a vast array of prints, clothing, figurines, jewelry, and toys that some label "Jesus junk" but that others see as a witness to their faith. McDannell claims that previous studies of American Christianity have overemphasized the written, cognitive, and ethical dimensions of religion, presenting faith as a disembodied system of beliefs. She shifts attention from the church and the theological seminary to the workplace, home, cemetery, and Sunday school, highlighting a different Christianity--one in which average Christians experience the divine, the nature of death, the power of healing, and the meaning of community through interacting with a created world of devotional images, environments, and objects.