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Aztec Religion and Art of Writing
Author | : Isabel Laack |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 455 |
Release | : 2019-03-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004392014 |
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Laackâs study presents an innovative interpretation of Aztec religion and art of writing. She explores the Nahua sense of reality from the perspective of the aesthetics of religion and analyzes Indigenous semiotics and embodied meaning in Mesoamerican pictorial writing.
Iconicity of the Uto Aztecans
Author | : Tirtha Prasad Mukhopadhyay,Alan Philip Garfinkel |
Publsiher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2023-05-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781800739734 |
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Uto-Aztecan iconic practices are primarily conditioned by the consciousness of the snake as a death-dealing power, and as such, an animal that displays the deepest fears and anxieties of the individual. The attempt to study a snake simulacrum thus constitutes the basic objective of this volume. A long, all-embracing iconicity of snakes and related snake motifs are evident in different cultural expressions ranging from rock art templates to other cultural artifacts like basketry, pottery, temple architecture and sculptural motifs. Uto-Aztecan iconography demonstrates a symbolic memorial order of emotional valences, as well as the negotiations with death and a belief in rebirth, just as the skin-shedding snake reptile manifests in its life cycle.
Language and Religion
Author | : Robert Yelle,Courtney Handman,Christopher Lehrich |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 2019-02-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781614514329 |
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This volume draws on an interdisciplinary team of authors to advance the study of the religious dimensions of communication and the linguistic aspects of religion. Contributions cover: poetry, iconicity, and iconoclasm in religious language; semiotic ideologies in traditional religions and in secularism; and the role of materiality and writing in religious communication. This volume will provoke new approaches to language and religion.
Indigenous and African Diaspora Religions in the Americas
Author | : Benjamin Hebblethwaite,Silke Jansen |
Publsiher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2023-06 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9781496235732 |
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Indigenous and African Diaspora Religions in the Americas offers an introduction and nine original perspectives on religious and cultural traditions emanating from communities in several regions across the Americas.
The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Cultural and Cognitive Aesthetics of Religion
Author | : Anne Koch,Katharina Wilkens |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2019-09-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781350066731 |
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Bridging the gap between cognition and culture, this handbook explores both social scientific and humanities approaches to understanding the physical processes of religious life, tradition, practice, and belief. It reflects the cultural turn within the study of religion and puts theory to the fore, moving beyond traditional theological, philosophical, and ethnographic understandings of the aesthetics of religion. Editors Anne Koch and Katharina Wilkens bring together research in cultural studies, cognitive studies, material religion, religion and the arts, and epistemology. Questions of identity, gender, ethnicity, and postcolonialism are discussed throughout. Key topics include materiality, embodiment, performance, popular/vernacular art and space to move beyond a sensory understanding of aesthetics. Emerging areas of research are covered, including secular aesthetics and the aesthetic of spirits. This is an important contribution to theory and method in the study of religion, and is grounded in research that has been taking place in Europe over the past 20 years. Case studies are drawn from around the world with contributions from scholars based in Europe, the USA, and Australia. The book is illustrated with over 40 color images and features a foreword from Birgit Meyer.
An Introduction to Mesoamerican Philosophy
Author | : Alexus McLeod |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2023-08-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781009218771 |
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A comprehensive and accessible introduction to the philosophical traditions of the precolonial Mesoamerican peoples, including the Maya, Aztecs, and Mixtecs.
Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain
Author | : Alan R. Sandstrom,Pamela Effrein Sandstrom |
Publsiher | : University Press of Colorado |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2023-01-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781646423309 |
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An ethnographic study based on decades of field research, Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain explores five sacred journeys to the peaks of venerated mountains undertaken by Nahua people living in northern Veracruz, Mexico. Punctuated with elaborate ritual offerings dedicated to the forces responsible for rain, seeds, crop fertility, and the well-being of all people, these pilgrimages are the highest and most elaborate form of Nahua devotion and reveal a sophisticated religious philosophy that places human beings in intimate contact with what Westerners call the forces of nature. Alan and Pamela Sandstrom document them for the younger Nahua generation, who live in a world where many are lured away from their communities by wage labor in urban Mexico and the United States. Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain contains richly detailed descriptions and analyses of ritual procedures as well as translations from the Nahuatl of core myths, chants performed before decorated altars, and statements from participants. Particular emphasis is placed on analyzing the role of sacred paper figures that are produced by the thousands for each pilgrimage. The work contains drawings of these cuttings of spirit entities along with hundreds of color photographs illustrating how they are used throughout the pilgrimages. The analysis reveals the monist philosophy that underlies Nahua religious practice in which altars, dancing, chanting, and the paper figures themselves provide direct access to the sacred. In the context of their pilgrimage traditions, the ritual practices of Nahua religion show one way that people interact effectively with the forces responsible for not only their own prosperity but also the very survival of humanity. A magnum opus with respect to Nahua religion and religious practice, Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain is a significant contribution to several fields, including but not limited to Indigenous literatures of Mesoamerica, Nahuatl studies, Latinx and Chicanx studies, and religious studies.
The Routledge Handbook of Classics Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory
Author | : Katherine Blouin,Ben Akrigg |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 701 |
Release | : 2024-07-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781040022368 |
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This handbook explores the ways in which histories of colonialism and postcolonial thought and theory cast light on our understanding of the ancient Mediterranean world and the discipline of Classics, utilizing a wide body of case studies and providing avenues for future research and discussion. It brings together chapters by a wide, international, and intersectional range of scholars coming from a variety of backgrounds and sub-disciplinary perspectives, and from across the chronological and geographical scope of Classics. Chapters cover the state of current research into ancient Mediterranean and South, Central, and West Asian histories. They provide case studies to illustrate both how postcolonial thought has already illuminated our understanding of the ancient Mediterranean world and beyond, as well as its potential for the future. Chapters also provide opportunities for reflection on the current state of the discipline. An introduction by the volume editors offers a survey of the development of postcolonial theory, its relationship to other bodies of theory, and its connections to Classics. Toward the end of the book, three scholars with different career and disciplinary perspectives provide short reflections on the themes of the volume and the directions of future research. The Routledge Handbook of Classics, Colonialism, and Postcolonial Theory offers an impressive collection of current research and thought on the subject for students and scholars in classical studies understood in its larger sense as well as in related disciplines such as Archaeology, Ancient History, Imperial History and the History of Colonialism, Reception Studies, and Museum Studies. For anyone interested in classical antiquity, it provides an engaging introduction to a potentially bewildering, but ultimately vital and enriching, body of thought and theory.