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Emotions in Rituals and Performances

Author : Axel Michaels
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000059197
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emotions in Rituals and Performances written by Axel Michaels and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the idea that rituals are static and emotions irrational, the volume explores the manifold qualities of emotions in ritual practices. Focusing explicitly on the relationship between emotions and rituals, it poses two central questions. First, how and to what extent do emotions shape rituals? Second, in what way are emotions ritualized in and beyond rituals? Strong emotions are generally considered to be more spontaneous and uncontrolled, whereas ritual behaviour is regarded as planned, formalized and stereotyped, and hence less emotional. However, as the volume demonstrates, rituals often reveal strong emotions among participants, are motivated by feelings, or are intended to generate them. The essays discuss the motivation for rituals; the healing function of emotions; the creation of new emotions through new media; the aspect of mimesis in the generation of feelings; individual, collective, and non-human emotions; the importance of trance and possession; staged emotions and emotions on stage; emotions in the context of martyrdom; emotions in Indian and Western dance traditions; emotions of love, sorrow, fear, aggression, and devotion. Furthermore, aesthetic and sensory dimensions, as well as emic concepts, of emotions in rituals are underscored as relevant in understanding social practice.

Theorizing Rituals, Volume 1: Issues, Topics, Approaches, Concepts

Author : Jens Kreinath
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047410777
Total Pages : 803 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Book Synopsis Theorizing Rituals, Volume 1: Issues, Topics, Approaches, Concepts by : Jens Kreinath

Download or read book Theorizing Rituals, Volume 1: Issues, Topics, Approaches, Concepts written by Jens Kreinath and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 803 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume one of Theorizing Rituals assembles 34 leading scholars from various countries and disciplines working within this field. The authors review main methodological and meta-theoretical problems (part I) followed by some of the classical issues (part II). Further chapters discuss main approaches to theorizing rituals (part III) and explore some key analytical concepts for theorizing rituals (part IV). The volume is provided with extensive indices.

When Rituals go Wrong: Mistakes, Failure, and the Dynamics of Ritual

Author : Ute Hüsken
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 904741988X
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Book Synopsis When Rituals go Wrong: Mistakes, Failure, and the Dynamics of Ritual by : Ute Hüsken

Download or read book When Rituals go Wrong: Mistakes, Failure, and the Dynamics of Ritual written by Ute Hüsken and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-05-31 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume is entirely dedicated to the investigation of the implications and effects of breaking ritual rules, of failed performances and of the extinction of ritual systems. While rituals are often seen as infallible mechanisms which ‘work’ irrespective of the individual motivations of the performers, it is clearly visible here that rituals can fail, and that improper performances do in fact matter. These essays break new ground in their respective fields and the comparative analysis of rituals that go wrong introduces new perspectives to ritual studies. As the first book-length study on ritual mistakes and failure, this volume begins to fill a significant gap in the existing literature. Contributors include: Claus Ambos, Christiane Brosius, Johanna Buss, Burckhard Dücker, Christoph Emmrich, Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin, Maren Hoffmeister, Ute Hüsken, Brigitte Merz, Axel Michaels, Karin Polit, Michael Rudolph, Edward L. Schieffelin, Jan A.M. Snoek, Eftychia Stavrianopoulou, and Jan Weinhold.

Ritual: Key Concepts in Religion

Author : Pamela J. Stewart
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1623568463
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)

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Book Synopsis Ritual: Key Concepts in Religion by : Pamela J. Stewart

Download or read book Ritual: Key Concepts in Religion written by Pamela J. Stewart and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ritual has emerged as a major focus of academic interest. As a concept, the idea of ritual integrates the study of behavior both within and beyond the domain of religion. Ritual can be both secular and religious in character. There is renewed interest in questions such as: Why do rituals exist at all? What has been, and continues to be, their place in society? How do they change over time? Such questions exist against a backdrop of assumptions about development, modernization, and disenchantment of the world. Written with the specific needs of students of religious studies in mind, Ritual: Key Concepts in Religion surveys the field of ritual studies, looking at it both historically within anthropology and in terms of its contemporary relevance to world events.

Anthropological Abstracts 7/2008

Author : Ulrich Oberdiek
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643998961
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Book Synopsis Anthropological Abstracts 7/2008 by : Ulrich Oberdiek

Download or read book Anthropological Abstracts 7/2008 written by Ulrich Oberdiek and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2011-07-11 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropological Abstracts (AA) is a reference journal published once a year in print, but also under www.anthropology-online.de and announces - in English language - most publications in the field of cultural/social anthropology published in the German language area (Austria, Germany, Switzerland). Since many of these publications have been written in German, and most German publications are not included in the major English language abstracting services, Anthropological Abstracts offers a convenient source of information for anthropologists and social scientists in general who do not read German, to become aware of anthropological research and publications in German-speaking countries. Included are journal articles, monographs, anthologies, exhibition catalogs, yearbooks, etc. Most abstracts are authored by the editor, others are specified accordingly. This journal is edited by Ulrich Oberdiek since 1993 (formerly: Abstracts in German Anthropology; since 2002: Anthropological Abstract

Promising Rituals

Author : Beatrix Hauser
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000059227
Total Pages : 224 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 224 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.

How to Land

Author : Ann Cooper Albright
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190873701
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book How to Land written by Ann Cooper Albright and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-16 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Land: Finding Ground in an Unstable World foregrounds the importance of embodiment as a means of surviving the disorientation of our twenty-first century world. Linking somatics and politics, author Ann Cooper Albright argues that a renewed attention to gravity as both a metaphoric sensibility and a physical experience can help transform moments of personal disorientation into an opportunity to reflect on the important relationship between individual resiliency and communal responsibility. Long one of the nation's preeminent thinkers in dance studies, Albright asks how contemporary bodies are affected by repeated images of falling bodies, bombed-out buildings, and displaced peoples, as well as recurring evocations of global economies and governments in discursive free fall or dissolution. What kind of fear gets lodged in connective tissue when there is an underlying anxiety that certain aspects of our world are in danger of falling apart? To answer this question, she draws on analyses of perception from cognitive studies, tracing the discussions of meaning, body and language through the work of Sara Ahmed, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Shaun Gallagher, among others. In addition, she follows the past decade of debate in contemporary media concerning the implications of the weightless and two-dimensional social media exchanges on structures of attention and learning, as well as their effect on the personal growth and socialization of a generation of young adults. Each chapter interweaves discussions of movement actions with their cultural implications, documenting specific bodily experiences and then tracing their ideological ripples out through the world.

Ritual and Identity

Author : Klaus-Peter Köpping
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825880422
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Ritual and Identity written by Klaus-Peter Köpping and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2006 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To which extent is ritual involved in the formation of collective and personal identities? What are the mechanisms that are responsible for the (mostly pre-reflexive) constitution of identity in ritual; and - equally important - what are the strategies employed by social actors to actively influence and enhance these constitutive processes? In order to find answers to these essential questions, authors refer to case studies from their respective areas of field research such as Japan, Morocco, Taiwan, Korea, India, and the Azores. Kpping is professor of anthropology at the Institute of Ethnology at Heidelberg University and also guest-professor at Goldsmith College London. His research focusses on popular and folk-religious practices in Japan through the lens of performance theories. Leistle is a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Ethnology at Heidelberg University. In his research focussing on Moroocan trance rituals he concentrates on theories of the phenomenology of perception.

The Palgrave Handbook of Anthropological Ritual Studies

Author : Pamela J. Stewart
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030768252
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Book Synopsis The Palgrave Handbook of Anthropological Ritual Studies by : Pamela J. Stewart

Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Anthropological Ritual Studies written by Pamela J. Stewart and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ritual Studies have achieved prominence since the 1980s, when interest in ritual as an object of inquiry was established, bridging over a number of humanities and social science disciplines. Both connected with religious studies and independent of it; overlapping with social and cultural anthropology, but also with history; related to science and health practices and ranging across the life course to education, Ritual Studies has come to encompass studies of change and dynamism in social life. Rituals are determinate in form, but not static. They enunciate distinctive social values within specific contexts that frame them; and they relate to the wider concerns and issues of their practitioners. Due to this broad and wide-ranging scope, it is often difficult to find a single resource on Ritual Studies, and even more so to find one which moves beyond the beginnings of anthropological theorizing to grapple with the present-day contexts of ritual. Bringing together recent ethnographies of ritual practice and ritualization from across the globe, this Handbook provides case study of ritual in the light of Emotion and Cognition, Identity, Religious Power, Performance and Literature, Ecology and Ecological Disaster, Media, and other topics. While each chapter provides a deep ethnography of a specific society, ritual, or ritualized practice, each also engages with current theoretical and substantive approaches to the relevant topic. The scholars collected here provide original synoptic and indicative pieces as guideposts and pathways through the complex, varied and cross-disciplinary, and vast landscape of scholarship that constitutes Ritual Studies today and points to developments in the future.

Myths and Rituals

Author : Vengesai Chimininge
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1728391806
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (283 download)

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Book Synopsis Myths and Rituals by : Vengesai Chimininge

Download or read book Myths and Rituals written by Vengesai Chimininge and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-08-09 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myths and rituals in Zion Christian Church (ZCC) of Samuel Mutendi in Zimbabwe is a book that comes as a result of my thesis from the University of South Africa (UNISA). The two religious phenomena, myths and rituals, are presented in the light of the Zionists’ own testimonies. It is argued in this book that a lot of beliefs and practices in the ZCC are adapted and adopted from Karanga religiosity and lifestyle. The book explained the critical role played by myths and rituals in the origins and development of the ZCC of Samuel Mutendi in Zimbabwe. As we read throughout this book, we are going to see that myths and rituals are treated as two sides of the same coin in the ZCC worldview. The relationship between the two is thus inseparable. Among the members of ZCC, myths and rituals grow pari passu, that is, at the same time. In this case, we can see that in the ZCC ecclesiastical worldview, myths and rituals are of equal importance, not only in theory but also in practice. Indeed, they act as nectar that attracts a lot of people to join the ZCC since the two have a therapeutic value.

International Review of Biblical Studies, Volume 54 (2007-2008)

Author : Bernhard Lang
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047426010
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Book Synopsis International Review of Biblical Studies, Volume 54 (2007-2008) by : Bernhard Lang

Download or read book International Review of Biblical Studies, Volume 54 (2007-2008) written by Bernhard Lang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formerly known by its subtitle “Internationale Zeitschriftenschau für Bibelwissenschaft und Grenzgebiete”, the International Review of Biblical Studies has served the scholarly community ever since its inception in the early 1950’s. Each annual volume includes approximately 2,000 abstracts and summaries of articles and books that deal with the Bible and related literature, including the Dead Sea Scrolls, Pseudepigrapha, Non-canonical gospels, and ancient Near Eastern writings. The abstracts – which may be in English, German, or French - are arranged thematically under headings such as e.g. “Genesis”, “Matthew”, “Greek language”, “text and textual criticism”, “exegetical methods and approaches”, “biblical theology”, “social and religious institutions”, “biblical personalities”, “history of Israel and early Judaism”, and so on. The articles and books that are abstracted and reviewed are collected annually by an international team of collaborators from over 300 of the most important periodicals and book series in the fields covered.

Difference and Sameness as Modes of Integration

Author : Günther Schlee
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785337165
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Difference and Sameness as Modes of Integration written by Günther Schlee and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to “fit in?” In this volume of essays, editors Günther Schlee and Alexander Horstmann demystify the discourse on identity, challenging common assumptions about the role of sameness and difference as the basis for inclusion and exclusion. Armed with intimate knowledge of local systems, social relationships, and the negotiation of people’s positions in the everyday politics, these essays tease out the ways in which ethnicity, religion and nationalism are used for social integration.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Connecting with Your Angels

Author : Cecily Channer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101133252
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Idiot's Guide to Connecting with Your Angels written by Cecily Channer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-08-04 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Be on the side of the angels As technology, war, and other global changes occur, now more than ever people are looking to connect to a higher spirituality. Spiritual practitioners and spiritual explorers alike can utilize The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Connecting with Your Angels to connect with the angels around them, gaining invaluable knowledge of their abilities to bring clarity, perspective, and healing in one's life. • 82% of women and 72% of men in America today believe in angels, according to a Gallup poll (2007) • Books on angels show strong sales records • Includes a detailed angel glossary and a comprehensive listing of resources • Foreword by spiritual advisor Tina Michelle

The Transformations of Magic

Author : Frank Klaassen
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271061758
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Transformations of Magic written by Frank Klaassen and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original, provocative, well-reasoned, and thoroughly documented book, Frank Klaassen proposes that two principal genres of illicit learned magic occur in late medieval manuscripts: image magic, which could be interpreted and justified in scholastic terms, and ritual magic (in its extreme form, overt necromancy), which could not. Image magic tended to be recopied faithfully; ritual magic tended to be adapted and reworked. These two forms of magic did not usually become intermingled in the manuscripts, but were presented separately. While image magic was often copied in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, The Transformations of Magic demonstrates that interest in it as an independent genre declined precipitously around 1500. Instead, what persisted was the other, more problematic form of magic: ritual magic. Klaassen shows that texts of medieval ritual magic were cherished in the sixteenth century, and writers of new magical treatises, such as Agrippa von Nettesheim and John Dee, were far more deeply indebted to medieval tradition—and specifically to the medieval tradition of ritual magic—than previous scholars have thought them to be.

Nationalism in a Global Era

Author : Mitchell Young
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134123108
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Nationalism in a Global Era written by Mitchell Young and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-03-07 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume makes a unique contribution to the literature on nations and nationalism by examining why nations remain a vibrant and strong social cohesive despite the threat of globalization. Regardless of predictions forecasting the demise of the nation-state in the global era, the nation persists as an important source of identity, community, and collective memory for most of the world's population. More than simply a corrective to the many scholarly but premature epitaphs for the nation-state, this book explains the continued health of nations in the face of looming threats. The contributors include leading experts in the field, such as Anthony D. Smith, William Safran, Edward Tiryakian as well as younger scholars, whom adopt a variety of approaches ranging from theoretical to empirical and historical to sociological, in order to uncover both the reasons that nations continue to remain vital and the mechanisms that help perpetuate them. The book includes case studies on Ireland, Thailand, Poland, the Baltic States, Croatia and Jordan. Nationalism in a Global Era will be of great interest to students and researchers of international politics, sociology, nationalism and ethnicity.

The Spirit Shaped Church

Author : Swarup Bar
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506466907
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The Spirit Shaped Church written by Swarup Bar and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Spirit Shaped Church, Swarup Bar argues that the church is defined by its relationship with others. A relational church depends on the porousness of its borders, which means that, while a church has its distinctiveness, it ought to be open to negotiate relational engagements with the world around it. This sort of relationally distinct, permeable church is found to be possible through the leading of the Spirit and the work of Christ. Such engagement is found to be relevant in a plural, religio-cultural context and in situations of marginalization in India. The Spirit Shaped Church reflects an ongoing commitment on the part of Fortress Press to engage the needs of Christian communities around the world. The book is aimed at teachers, clergy, students, and anyone with an interest in the lived experience of Christians in India.

Inventing Catholic Tradition

Author : Terrence W. Tilley
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1608997499
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Inventing Catholic Tradition written by Terrence W. Tilley and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This creative argument that traditions are neither found nor made, but are invented and reinvented in practice, is carried out in dialogue with scholars such as Yves Congar and George Lindbeck. Tilley examines the actual practices as the bearers of tradition and argues that vibrant and meaningful traditions must be reinvented or reconstructed in every generation. He demonstrates how deliberately invented or imposed traditions are often resisted. Tilley applies his analysis to the Catholic Intellectual Tradition and, in the last chapter, shows how truth, revelation, and authority can be accommodated by a constructivist, practical theology of tradition.