Ritual And Religious Belief

Author : Graham Harvey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781315475714

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The study of ritual and how it relates to beliefs and ideas is of central importance in our understanding of the world. Rituals can become divorced from beliefs and religious believers regarded as simply "going through the motions". 'Ritual and Religious Belief: A Reader' presents the full range of scholarly thinking on ritual and ritualizing as they relate to belief. It questions the assumption that belief should take precedence over outward behaviour and engages with questions such as: how are rituals related to performance; are politics ritualized; and is there a difference between rituals and etiquette? This comprehensive volume brings together material by eminent scholars from across the centuries, ranging from Martin Luther's sacramental dialogues to the life and routine patterns of Zen Buddhist Temples and the relationship between magic, religion and science. It will be of interest to all those engaged in the study of the dynamics between ritual and belief.

Author : Albertina (Tineke) Nugteren
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783038977520

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Religion, Ritual and Ritualistic Objects by Albertina (Tineke) Nugteren Pdf

This is a volume about the life and power of ritual objects in their religious ritual settings. In this Special Issue, we see a wide range of contributions on material culture and ritual practices across religions. By focusing on the dynamic interrelations between objects, ritual, and belief, it explores how religion happens through symbolic materiality. The ritual objects presented in this volume include: masks worn in the Dogon dance; antique ecclesiastical silver objects carried around in festive processions and shown in shrines in the southern Andes; funerary photographs and films functioning as mnemonic objects for grieving children; a dented rock surface perceived to be the god’s footprint in the archaic place of pilgrimage, Gaya (India); a recovered manual of rituals (from Xiapu county) for Mani, the founder of Manichaeism, juxtaposed to a Manichaean painting from southern China; sacred stories and related sacred stones in the Alor–Pantar archipelago, Indonesia; lotus symbolism, indicating immortalizing plants in the mythic traditions of Egypt, the Levant, and Mesopotamia; lavishly illustrated variations of portrayals of Ravana, a Sinhalese god-king-demon; figurines made of cow dung sculptured by rural women in Rajasthan (India); and mythical artifacts called ‘Apples of Eden’ in a well-known interactive game series.

Author : John P. Hoffmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781136889912

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Understanding Religious Ritual by John P. Hoffmann Pdf

Although numerous studies of religious rituals have been conducted by religious studies scholars, anthropologists, sociologists, and psychologists, it is rare to find a work that brings scholars from different disciplines together to discuss the similarities and differences in their research. This book represents contributions by leading scholars from several disciplines that show the diversity of approaches to religious rituals, while also providing cross-disciplinary perspectives on this topic. The goals of the chapters are to consider where the field currently stands in understanding religious rituals and what novel ideas can improve our knowledge about these practices; and furnish innovative applications of theory by discussing particular examples which are drawn from the authors’ fieldwork. The chapters cover Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, and Islamic rituals, thus providing a view of how ritual practices vary across the globe, but also how they share some important characteristics.

Author : Graham Harvey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Faith
ISBN : 1904768164

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Ritual and Religious Belief by Graham Harvey Pdf

Graham Harvey illustrates the problem of ritual as a type of religious behaviour, in relation to belief and thought, with material that provocatively seeks a different understanding of ritual as performances that may have a logic different to 'belief' oras actions that are not meant to be understood.

Author : David Hicks
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780759118577

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Ritual and Belief by David Hicks Pdf

Ritual and Belief: Readings in the Anthropology of Religion is a collection of 41 readings in religion, magic, and witchcraft. The choice of readings is eclectic: no single anthropological approach or theoretical perspective dominates the text. Theoretical significance, scholarly eminence of the author, and inherent interest provide the principal criteria, and each reading complements its companion chapters, which are pedagogically coherent rather than ad hoc assemblages. Included among the theoretical perspectives are structural-functionalism, structuralism, Malinowskian functionalism, cultural materialism, and cultural evolutionism; also included are the synchronic and diachronic approaches. The book offers a mixture of classic readings and more recent contributions, and the 'world religions' are included along with examples from the religions of traditionally non-literate cultures. As diverse a range of religious traditions as possible has been embraced, from various ethnic groups, traditions, and places.

Author : John Middleton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Religion
ISBN : UCAL:B4381532

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Gods and Rituals by John Middleton Pdf

Author : Douglas Davies
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781474250979

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Death, Ritual and Belief by Douglas Davies Pdf

Death, Ritual and Belief, now in its third edition, explores many important issues related to death and dying, from a religious studies perspective, including anthropology and sociology. Using the motif of 'words against death' it depicts human responses to grief by surveying the many ways in which people have not let death have the last word, not simply in terms of funeral rites but also in memorials, graves, and in ideas of ancestors, souls, gods, reincarnation and resurrection, whether in the great religious traditions of the world or in more local customs. He also examines bereavement and grief, experiences of the presence of dead, near-death experiences, pet-death and the symbolic death played out in religious rites. Updated chapters have taken into account new research and include additional topics in this new edition, notably assisted dying, terrorism, green burial, material culture, death online, and the emergence of Death Studies as a distinctive field. Case studies range from Anders Breivik in Norway, to the Princess of Wales, and to the Rapture in the USA. A new perspective is also brought to his account of grief theories. Providing an introduction to key authors and authorities on death beliefs, bereavement, grief and ritual-symbolism, Death, Ritual and Belief is an authoritative guide to the perspectives of major religious and secular worldviews.

Author : Catherine Bell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1992-01-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199760381

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Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice by Catherine Bell Pdf

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.

Author : Jensine Andresen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001-06-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780521801522

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Religion in Mind by Jensine Andresen Pdf

Religion in Mind is a 2001 text which summarizes and extends the advances in the cognitive study of religion throughout the 1990s. It uses empirical research from psychology and anthropology to illuminate various components of religious belief, ritual, and experience. The book examines cognitive dimensions of religion within a naturalistic view of culture, while respecting the phenomenology of religion and drawing together teachers of religion, psychologists of religion, and cognitive scientists. Expert contributors focus on phenomena such as belief-fixation and transmission; attributions of agency; anthropomorphizing; counterintuitive religious representations; the well-formedness of religious rituals; links between religious representations and emotions; and the development of god concepts. The work encourages greater interdisciplinary linkages between scholars from different fields and will be of interest to researchers in anthropology, psychology, sociology, history, philosophy, and cognitive science. It also will interest more general readers in religion and science.

Author : Edwin Sidney Hartland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Ethnopsychology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010205404

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Ritual and Belief by Edwin Sidney Hartland Pdf

Author : Marc D. Gellman,J. Rick Turner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Clinical health psychology
ISBN : 1461464390

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Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine by Marc D. Gellman,J. Rick Turner Pdf

Author : T. C. Kline III,Justin Tiwald
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438451954

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Ritual and Religion in the Xunzi by T. C. Kline III,Justin Tiwald Pdf

Challenges traditional views to consider Xunzi as a religious thinker. Xunzi, a founding figure in the Confucian tradition, is one of the world’s great philosophers and theorists of religion. For much of the last century, his work has been seen largely as critical of religion, particularly the popular beliefs and invocations of supernatural forces that underpin so many religious rituals. Contributors to this volume challenge this view and offer a more sophisticated picture of Xunzi. He emerges not as critic, but rather as an adherent of religion who seeks to give religious practices meaning even though many religious beliefs are mistaken or self-serving. Each essay offers a powerful illustration of Xunzi as both a religious devotee and as a philosopher of religion, drawing on a wide array of disciplines and methodologies.

Author : John P. Hoffmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781136889929

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Understanding Religious Ritual by John P. Hoffmann Pdf

Although numerous studies of religious rituals have been conducted by religious studies scholars, anthropologists, sociologists, and psychologists, it is rare to find a work that brings scholars from different disciplines together to discuss the similarities and differences in their research. This book represents contributions by leading scholars from several disciplines that show the diversity of approaches to religious rituals, while also providing cross-disciplinary perspectives on this topic. The goals of the chapters are to consider where the field currently stands in understanding religious rituals and what novel ideas can improve our knowledge about these practices; and furnish innovative applications of theory by discussing particular examples which are drawn from the authors’ fieldwork. The chapters cover Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, and Islamic rituals, thus providing a view of how ritual practices vary across the globe, but also how they share some important characteristics.

Author : Ruel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789004664678

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Belief, Ritual and the Securing of Life by Ruel Pdf

This collection of essays focuses upon the religion and ritual of the Kuria people of East Africa, but uses this material to raise wider comparative and cross-cultural issues regarding broad themes in eastern Bantu religions as well as western assumptions about religion and individual personhood.

Author : Jay Dobbin,Francis X. Hezel
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824860110

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Summoning the Powers Beyond by Jay Dobbin,Francis X. Hezel Pdf

Summoning the Powers Beyond collects and reconstructs the old religions of preindustrial Micronesia. It draws mostly from written sources from the turn of the nineteenth century and the period immediately after World War II: reports of the Hamburg South Sea Expedition of 1908–1910, articles by German Roman Catholic missionaries in Micronesia included in the journal Anthropos, and reports by the Coordinated Investigation of Micronesian Anthropology (CIMA) and the American Board of Commissioners of the Foreign Missions (ABCFM). A detailed introduction and an overview of Micronesian religion are followed by separate chapters detailing religion in the Chuukic-speaking islands, Pohnpei, Kosrae, the Marshall Islands, Yap, Palau, Kiribati, and Nauru. The Chamorro-speaking group of the Marianas is omitted because lengthy periods of intense military and missionary activity eradicated most of the local religion. The Polynesian outliers Nukuoro and Kapingamarangi are discussed at the end primarily to underscore the contrasts between Polynesian and Micronesian religion. In a concluding chapter, the author highlights the similarities and differences between the areas within Micronesia and then attempts an appreciation or evaluation of Micronesia religion. Finally, he addresses the evidence of a tentative hypothesis that Micronesian religion is sufficiently different from that of Polynesia and Melanesia to justify the continued claim of a separate Micronesian religion.