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Materializing Ritual Practices
Author | : Lisa M. Johnson,Rosemary A. Joyce |
Publsiher | : University Press of Colorado |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2022-07-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781646422395 |
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Materializing Ritual Practices explores the deep history of ritual practice in Mexico and Central America and the ways interdisciplinary research can be coordinated to illuminate how rituals create, destroy, and transform social relations. Ritual action produces sequences of creation, destruction, and transformation, which involve a variety of materials that are active and agential. The materialities of ritual may persist at temporal scales long beyond the lives of humans or be as ephemeral as spoken words, music, and scents. In this book, archaeologists and ethnographers, including specialists in narrative, music, and ritual practice, explore the rhythms and materiality of rituals that accompany everyday actions, like the construction of houses, healing practices, and religious festivals, and that paced commemoration of rulers, ancestor veneration, and relations with spiritual beings in the past. Connecting the kinds of observed material discursive practices that ethnographers witness to the sedimented practices from which archaeologists infer similar practices in the past, Materializing Ritual Practices addresses how specific materialities encourage repetition in ritual actions and, in other circumstances, resist changes to ritual sequences. The volume will be of interest to cultural anthropologists, archaeologists, and linguists with interests in Central America, ritual, materiality, and time. Contributors: M. Charlotte Arnauld, Giovani Balam Caamal, Isaac Barrientos, Cedric Becquey, Johann Begel, Valeria Bellomia, Juan Carillo Gonzalez, Maire Chosson, Julien Hiquet, Katrina Kosyk, Olivier Le Guen, Maria Luisa Vasquez de Agredos Pascual, Alessandro Lupo, Philippe Nondedeo, Julie Patrois, Russel Sheptak, Valentina Vapnarsky, Francisca Zalaquett Rock
Materializing Religion
Author | : William Keenan |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2017-03-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781351919128 |
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The material symbol has become central to understanding religion in late modernity. Overtly theological approaches use words to express the values and faith of a religion, but leave out the 'incarnation' of religion in the behavioural, performative, or audio-visual form. This book explores the lived experience of religion through its material expressions, demonstrating how religion and spirituality are given form and are thus far from being detached or ethereal. Cutting across cultures, senses, disciplines and faiths, the contributors register the variety in which religions and religious groups express the sacred and numinous. Including chapters on music, architecture, festivals, ritual, artifacts, dance, dress and magic, this book offers an invaluable resource to students of sociology and anthropology of religion, art, culture, history, liturgy, theories of late modern culture, and religious studies.
Ritual Theory Ritual Practice
Author | : Catherine Bell |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1992-01-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780199879281 |
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Ritual studies today figures as a central element of religious discourse for many scholars around the world. Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice, Catherine Bell's sweeping and seminal work on the subject, helped legitimize the field. In this volume, Bell re-examines the issues, methods, and ramifications of our interest in ritual by concentrating on anthropology, sociology, and the history of religions. Now with a new foreword by Diane Jonte-Pace, Bell's work is a must-read for understanding the evolution of the field of ritual studies and its current state.
Ritual Matters
Author | : Ute Husken,Christiane Brosius |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2012-08-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781136517945 |
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This book explores the interaction of rituals and ritualised practices utilising a cross-cultural approach. It discusses whether and why rituals are important today, and why they are possibly even more relevant than before.
Ritual
Author | : Catherine M. Bell,Bernard J Hanley Professor of Religious Studies Catherine Bell |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780195110517 |
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Catherine Bell provides a practical introduction to ritual and its study with comprehensive overviews of the most influential theories of religion and ritual. The book examines the major categories of ritual activity.
Rituals and Music in Europe
Author | : Daniel Burgos |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9783031544316 |
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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Material Religion in the Ancient Near East and Egypt
Author | : Nicola Laneri,Sharon R. Steadman |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 527 |
Release | : 2023-06-29 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781350280830 |
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With contributions spanning from the Neolithic Age to the Iron Age, this book offers important insights into the religions and ritual practices in ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern communities through the lenses of their material remains. The book begins with a theoretical introduction to the concept of material religion and features editor introductions to each of its six parts, which tackle the following themes: the human body; religious architecture; the written word; sacred images; the spirituality of animals; and the sacred role of the landscape. Illustrated with over 100 images, chapters provide insight into every element of religion and materiality, from the largest building to the smallest amulet. This is a benchmark work for further studies on material religion in the ancient Near East and Egypt.
The Sacred Body
Author | : Nicola Laneri |
Publsiher | : Oxbow Books |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2021-06-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781789255195 |
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The human body serves as a symbolic bridge between communities of the living and the divine. This is clearly evident in mythological stories that recount the creation of humans by deities within ancient and contemporaneous societies across a very broad geographical environment. In certain circumstances, parts of selected humans can become an ideal proxy for connecting with the supernatural, as demonstrated by the cult of human skulls in Near Eastern Neolithic communities, as well as the cult of relics of Christian saints from the early Christian era. To go deeper into this topic, this volume aims to undertake a cross-cultural investigation of the role played by both humans and human remains in creating forms of relationality with the divine in antiquity. 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 the perception of the supernatural by communities of the living.