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Author : Nissan Rubin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124129847
Focusing on the secular society of contemporary Israel, this collection examines rituals which have been invented by communities and individuals in order to celebrate important turning points.
Author : Gianpiero Vincenzo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781527514881
Consumerism has established itself as a dominant lifestyle, but the reasons behind this are often unclear. This study revisits a large amount of diverse research, and argues that consumerism is a powerful ritual “machine” that can make up for the modern lack of values with new symbols and rituals. Consumerism made its claim between the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, when the traditional symbolic world had ended and a new one had not yet emerged. Slowly but progressively, consumerism begun to develop new symbolic forms and new social rituals, becoming the basis for new mimetic behaviours. As nationalism has progressively declined, consumerism has permeated the entire social fabric. Supermarkets and shopping malls must be interpreted in the light of their ritual significance, as temples and holy cities of a new symbolic order. In the consumeristic era, many people are led to think and imagine in consumer terms, to identify themselves through consumption rituals. The impact of consumerism on culture, from literature to art, should not be underestimated. Many artists have tried to develop their aesthetics by triggering a dialectical, or openly critical, confrontation with consumerism. This book also takes into account the development of violence and the effects of consumerism on childhood and new generations. The book contains a preface by the German anthropologist Christoph Wulf, and the images illustrating the text are by Belgian artist Michel Couturier.
Author : Barry Stephenson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199943593
Ritual is part of what it means to be human. Like sports, music, and drama, ritual defines and enriches culture, putting those who practice it in touch with sources of value and meaning larger than themselves. Ritual is unavoidable, yet it holds a place in modern life that is decidedly ambiguous. What is ritual? What does it do? Is it useful? What are the various kinds of ritual? Is ritual tradition bound and conservative or innovative and transformational? Alongside description of a number of specific rites, this Very Short Introduction explores ritual from both theoretical and historical perspectives. Barry Stephenson focuses on the places where ritual touches everyday life: in politics and power; moments of transformation in the life cycle; as performance and embodiment. He also discusses the boundaries of ritual, and how and why certain behaviors have been studied as ritual while others have not. Stephenson shows how ritual is an important vehicle for group and identity formation; how it generates and transmits beliefs and values; how it can be used to exploit and oppress; and how it has served as a touchstone for thinking about cultural origins and historical change. Encompassing the breadth and depth of modern ritual studies, Barry Stephenson's Very Short Introduction also develops a narrative of ritual's place in social and cultural life. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author : Brian Hayden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108426398
Secret societies in tribal societies turn out to be key to understanding the origins of social inequalities and state religions.
Author : Vera Tiesler,Andrea Cucina
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780387488714
This book examines Maya sacrifice and related posthumous body manipulation. The editors bring together an international group of contributors from the area studied: archaeologists as well as anthropologists, forensic anthropologists, art historians and bioarchaeologists. This interdisciplinary approach provides a comprehensive perspective on these sites as well as the material culture and biological evidence found there
Author : D. P. Martinez,Jan Van Bremen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134818549
Japan is one of the most urbanised and industrialised countries in the world. Yet the Japanese continue to practise a variety of religious rituals and ceremonies despite the high-tech, highly regimented nature of Japanese society. Ceremony and Ritual in Japan focuses on the traditional and religious aspects of Japanese society from an anthropological perspective, presenting new material and making cross-cultural comparisons. The chapters in this collection cover topics as diverse as funerals and mourning, sweeping, women's roles in ritual, the division of ceremonial foods into bitter and sweet, the history of a shrine, the playing of games, the exchange of towels and the relationship between ceremony and the workplace. The book provides an overview of the meaning of tradition, and looks at the way in which new ceremonies have sprung up in changing circumstances, while old ones have been preserved, or have developed new meanings.
Author : Colin Renfrew,Iain Morley,Michael Boyd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781107143562
This book presents unique new insights into the development of human ritual and society through our heritage of play and performance.
Author : David Brooks Dodd,Christopher A. Faraone
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780415289207
An international group of experts in Greek religion and society challenge the privileged status of initiation as a paradigm in classical studies.
Author : Katherine Ann Bowie
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0231103913
In the 1970s, the Thai state organized the Village Scout movement to counter communist insurgency. The movement was soon used to thwart growing demands for democratic reform, recruiting five million members to become the largest mass organization in Thai history, and, mobilized by the military-controlled media, helped topple a civilian government and restore military rule. This book bridges both the macro and micro levels of analysis to place the dynamics of a national political movement within a richly detailed account of its working at the village level.
Author : Wesley J. Bergen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-05-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567524430
This book draws on a variety of disciplines to undertake a unique analysis of Leviticus 1-7. Rather than studying the rituals prescribed in Leviticus as arcane historical/theological texts of little interest to the modern reader, or as examples of primitive rituals that have no parallel in Western society, this book provides many points of contact between animal sacrifice rituals and various parts of post-modern society. Modern rituals such as Monday Night Football, eating fast food, sending sons and daughters off to war, and even the rituals of modern academia are contrasted with the text of Leviticus. In addition, responses to Leviticus among modern African Christians and in the early church are used to draw out further understandings of how the language and practice of sacrifice still shapes the lives of people. This study takes a consciously Christian perspective on Leviticus. Leviticus is assumed to be an ongoing part of the Christian Bible. The usual Christian response to Leviticus is to ignore it or to claim that all sacrifice has now been superseded by the sacrifice of Jesus. This study refutes those simplistic assertions, and attempts to reassert the place of Leviticus as a source for Christian self-understanding. This is volume 417 of JSOTS and volume 9 of Playing the Texts.
Author : Samuel E. Balentine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190222123
Ritual has a primal connection to the idea that a transcendent order - numinous and mysterious, supranatural and elusive, divine and wholly other - gives meaning and purpose to life. The construction of rites and rituals enables humans to conceive and apprehend this transcendent order, to symbolize it and interact with it, to postulate its truths in the face of contradicting realities and to repair them when they have been breached or diminished. This Handbook provides a compendium of the information essential for constructing a comprehensive and integrated account of ritual and worship in the ancient world. Its focus on ritual and worship from the perspective of biblical studies, as opposed to religious studies, highlights that the world of ritual and worship was a topic of central concern for the people of the Ancient Near East, including the world of the Bible. Given the scarcity of the material in the Bible itself, the authors in this collection use materials from the ancient Near East to provide a larger context for the practices of the biblical world, giving due attention to historical, anthropological, and social scientific methods that inform the context of biblical worship. The specifics of ritual and worship life-the sacred spaces, times, and actors in worship-are examined in detail, with essays covering both the divine and human aspects of the sacred dimension. The Oxford Handbook of Ritual and Worship in the Hebrew Bible considers several underlying concepts of ritual practice and closes with a theological outlook on worship and ritual from a variety of perspectives, demonstrating a fruitful exchange between biblical studies, ritual theory, and social science research.
Author : Transnational Network for the Study of Physical, Psychological, and Spiritual Wellbeing. International Conference,Mark Blows
Publisher : Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Alternative medicine
ISBN : 9789059720343
Author : Robert Bocock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000026894
Originally published in 1974, Ritual in Industrial Society is based on several years’ research including interviews and observations into the importance of ritual in industrial society within modern Britain. The book addresses how identity and meaning for people of all occupations and social classes can be derived through rituals and provides an expansive and diverse examination of how rituals are used in society, including in birth, marriage and death. The book offers an examination into the use of symbolic action in the body to articulate experiences which words cannot adequately handle and suggests that this enables modern men and women to overcome the mind-body splits which characterise modern technological society. In addition to this, the book examines ritual as a tool for articulating and sharing religious experiences, a point often overlooked by more intellectual approaches to religion in sociology. In addition to this, the book covers an exploration into ritual in social groups and how this is used to develop a sense of belonging among members. The book will be of interest to sociologists as well as academics of religion and theology, social workers and psychotherapists.
Author : David I. Kertzer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0300043627
Examines the history and purpose of political rituals, discusses examples from Aztec cannibal rites to presidential inauguration, and argues that the use of ritual determines the success of political groups.
Author : Jeltje Gordon-Lennox
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781784503444
The growing absence of meaningful ritual in contemporary Western societies has led to cohesive research on the history of ritualizing behaviour in different cultures. The relatively new field of ritology, which includes neuroscience, anthropology, cultural psychology, psychotherapy and even art and performance, raises questions about the significance and practice of ritual today. This book is the first of its kind to discuss the importance of secular rituals for cultural and personal growth. Using a transdisciplinary approach, a range of contributors provide an authoritative account of the science and history of rituals and their role in creating healthy societies in the modern age.
