Fictive Ritual

Author : Ronald L. Grimes,Director of Ritual Studies International and Professor Emeritus of Religion and Culture Ronald L Grimes
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-21
Category : Rites and ceremonies
ISBN : 1481999265

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Fictive Ritual by Ronald L. Grimes,Director of Ritual Studies International and Professor Emeritus of Religion and Culture Ronald L Grimes Pdf

Fictive Ritual explores the ritual dimensions of literary fiction, drama, and autobiography. Among the works it considers are Flannery O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away, Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King, Jean Genet's The Blacks: A Clown Show, Elie Wiesel's Gates of the Forest, Jean-Paul Sartre's The Words, Machado de Assis' Dom Casmurro, and Søren Kierkegaard's Repetition.

Author : Ronald L. Grimes
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : Pastoral Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016897287

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Reading, Writing, and Ritualizing by Ronald L. Grimes Pdf

This collection of studies on ritual and ritualizing leads the reader through religious

Author : Reginald McGinnis,John Vignaux Smyth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780197637432

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Mock Ritual in the Modern Era by Reginald McGinnis,John Vignaux Smyth Pdf

Mock Ritual in the Modern Era explores the complex interrelations between ritual and mockery, the latter of which is not infrequently the unofficial face of claims to rationality. McGinnis and Smyth consider how the mocking and parodying of ritual often associated with modern rationalism may itself become ritualized, and other ways in which supposedly sham ritual may survive its "outing." This volume traces the evolution of "mock ritual" in various forms throughout the modern era, as found in literary, historical, and anthropological texts as well as encyclopedias, newspapers, and films. Mock Ritual in the Modern Era places famous eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors in dialogue with contemporary popular culture, from Diderot, Sterne, and Flaubert to the TV shows Survivor and Judge Judy, and from Voltaire to the Charlie Hebdo tragedy of 2015. Ritualistic and mock ritualistic aspects of comedy and ridicule are considered along with those, notably, of sexuality, medicine, art, education, and justice.

Author : Ronald L. Grimes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195301434

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The Craft of Ritual Studies by Ronald L. Grimes Pdf

Readership: Students and scholars of ritual studies, religious studies, anthropology

Author : Matthew Martin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004439023

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Tantra, Ritual Performance, and Politics in Nepal and Kerala by Matthew Martin Pdf

For the first time, Tantra, Ritual Performance and Politics in Nepal and Kerala offers a comparative approach to Tantric mediumship as observed in two locales: Navadurgā rituals in Bhaktapur, Nepal, and Teyyāṭṭam in North Kerala.

Author : Nathan MacDonald
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110368710

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Ritual Innovation in the Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism by Nathan MacDonald Pdf

Are the rituals in the Hebrew Bible of great antiquity, practiced unchanged from earliest times, or are they the products of later innovators? The canonical text is clear: ritual innovation is repudiated as when Jeroboam I of Israel inaugurate a novel cult at Bethel and Dan. Most rituals are traced back to Moses. From Julius Wellhausen to Jacob Milgrom, this issue has divided critical scholarship. With the rich documentation from the late Second Temple period, such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, it is apparent that rituals were changed. Were such rituals practiced, or were they forms of textual imagination? How do rituals change and how are such changes authorized? Do textual innovation and ritual innovation relate? What light might ritual changes between the Hebrew Bible and late Second Temple texts shed on the history of ritual in the Hebrew Bible? The essays in this volume engage the various issues that arise when rituals are considered as practices that may be invented and subject to change. A number of essays examine how biblical texts show evidence of changing ritual practices, some use textual change to discuss related changes in ritual practice, while others discuss evidence for ritual change from material culture.

Author : Bernhard Jussen
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0874136326

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Spiritual Kinship as Social Practice by Bernhard Jussen Pdf

"This book deals with kinship in the early Middle Ages. Most scholars agree in theory that kinship is not a biological fact but a universally deployable system for structuring social relations. In empirical practice, however, research on kinship has focused almost exclusively on descent and alliance. This book addresses kinship beyond these concepts. It is a study of godparenthood and adoption in Frankish society at the time when Roman adoption was disappearing and godparenthood was being invented as a social tool."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Helane Androne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137588548

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Ritual Structures in Chicana Fiction by Helane Androne Pdf

This book argues for the necessary and further examination of the sacred as it is ritualized within Chicana fiction. It suggests that religious, spiritual, linguistic and political symbolisms reveal rites that structure narrative performances of coping with and healing from trauma. Helane Androne examines these rites of spirit, service, and story as they occur in Ana Castillo’s So Far From God, Denise Chávez’s Face of An Angel, and Sandra Cisneros’ Caramelo. Beginning with the implications of Gloria Anzaldúa’s spiritual vision of Chicana identity alongside structural principles of ritual criticism, this study extends the discourse about the impact of the sacred in Chicana fiction. an>

Author : Douglas C. Comer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1996-12-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520207745

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Ritual Ground by Douglas C. Comer Pdf

From about 1830 to 1849, Bent's Old Fort, located in present-day Colorado, was the largest trading post in the Southwest and the mountain-plains region. Although the raw enterprise and improvisation that characterized the American westward movement seem to have little to do with ritual, Douglas Comer argues that the fort grew and prospered because of ritual and that ritual shaped the subsequent history of the region to an astonishing extent.

Author : Ronald L. Grimes
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : Pastoral Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Religion
ISBN : IND:30000045755778

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Reading, Writing, and Ritualizing by Ronald L. Grimes Pdf

This collection of studies on ritual and ritualizing leads the reader through religious

Author : Carlos G. Vélez-Ibañez
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520074211

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Rituals of Marginality by Carlos G. Vélez-Ibañez Pdf

In this political ethnography of the "marginalized" population of Netzahuacoyotl Izcalli, the fourth largest city in Mexico, Carlos V�lez-Iba�ez shows that although marginalized groups seldom emerge the clear winners of political struggles, they gain a sense of autonomy and social power that can never be erased.

Author : Christophe Nihan,Julia Rhyder
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781646021574

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Text and Ritual in the Pentateuch by Christophe Nihan,Julia Rhyder Pdf

The first five books of the Hebrew Bible contain a significant number of texts describing ritual practices. Yet it is often unclear how these sources would have been understood or used by ancient audiences in the actual performance of cult. This volume explores the processes of ritual textualization (the creation of a written version of a ritual) in ancient Israel by probing the main conceptual and methodological issues that inform the study of this topic in the Pentateuch. This systematic and comparative study of text and ritual in the first five books of the Hebrew Bible maps the main areas of consensus and disagreement among scholars engaged in articulating new models for understanding the relationship between text and ritual and explores the importance of comparative evidence for the study of pentateuchal rituals. Topics include ritual textualization in ancient Anatolia, Egypt, Greece, and Mesopotamia; the importance of archaeology and materiality for the study of text and ritual in ancient Israel; the relationship between ritual textualization and standardization in the Pentateuch; the reception of pentateuchal ritual texts in Second Temple writings and rabbinic literature; and the relationship between text and ritual in the Dead Sea Scrolls. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Dorothea Erbele-Küster, Daniel K. Falk, Yitzhaq Feder, Christian Frevel, William K. Gilders, Dominique Jaillard, Giuseppina Lenzo, Lionel Marti, Patrick Michel, Rüdiger Schmitt, Jeremy D. Smoak, and James W. Watts.

Author : Bryan D. Bibb
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567513038

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Ritual Words and Narrative Worlds in the Book of Leviticus by Bryan D. Bibb Pdf

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.

Author : Bernard Benstock
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1983-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781349173136

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Essays on Detective Fiction by Bernard Benstock Pdf

Author : Amit Desai,Evan Killick
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781845458508

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The Ways of Friendship by Amit Desai,Evan Killick Pdf

Friendship is an essential part of human experience, involving ideas of love and morality as well as material and pragmatic concerns. Making and having friends is a central aspect of everyday life in all human societies. Yet friendship is often considered of secondary significance in comparison to domains such as kinship, economics and politics. How important are friends in different cultural contexts? What would a study of society viewed through the lens of friendship look like? Does friendship affect the shape of society as much as society moulds friendship? Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Europe, this volume offers answers to these questions and examines the ideology and practice of friendship as it is embedded in wider social contexts and transformations.