Ritual Imagination

Author : Erik W. Davis
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231540667

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Deathpower by Erik W. Davis Pdf

Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Cambodia, Erik W. Davis radically reorients approaches toward the nature of Southeast Asian Buddhism's interactions with local religious practice and, by extension, reorients our understanding of Buddhism itself. Through a vivid study of contemporary Cambodian Buddhist funeral rites, he reveals the powerfully integrative role monks play as they care for the dead and negotiate the interplay of non-Buddhist spirits and formal Buddhist customs. Buddhist monks perform funeral rituals rooted in the embodied practices of Khmer rice farmers and the social hierarchies of Khmer culture. The monks' realization of death underwrites key components of the Cambodian social imagination: the distinction between wild death and celibate life, the forest and the field, and moral and immoral forms of power. By connecting the performative aspects of Buddhist death rituals to Cambodian history and everyday life, Davis undermines the theory that Buddhism and rural belief systems necessarily oppose each other. Instead, he shows Cambodian Buddhism to be a robust tradition with ethical and popular components extending throughout Khmer society.

Author : Thomas Moore
Publisher : Dallas Institute Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Myth
ISBN : 091100503X

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Rituals of the Imagination by Thomas Moore Pdf

Author : Hilde Nielssen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004215245

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Ritual Imagination by Hilde Nielssen Pdf

Exploring the rich world of tromba spirit possession in eastern Madagascar, this book offers a fresh perspective on questions of how rituals work and how they affect and constitute human realities.

Author : Paul Copp
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231537780

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The Body Incantatory by Paul Copp Pdf

Whether chanted as devotional prayers, intoned against the dangers of the wilds, or invoked to heal the sick and bring ease to the dead, incantations were pervasive features of Buddhist practice in late medieval China (600–1000 C.E.). Material incantations, in forms such as spell-inscribed amulets and stone pillars, were also central to the spiritual lives of both monks and laypeople. In centering its analysis on the Chinese material culture of these deeply embodied forms of Buddhist ritual, The Body Incantatory reveals histories of practice—and logics of practice—that have until now remained hidden. Paul Copp examines inscribed stones, urns, and other objects unearthed from anonymous tombs; spells carved into pillars near mountain temples; and manuscripts and prints from both tombs and the Dunhuang cache. Focusing on two major Buddhist spells, or dhāraṇī, and their embodiment of the incantatory logics of adornment and unction, he makes breakthrough claims about the significance of Buddhist incantation practice not only in medieval China but also in Central Asia and India. Copp's work vividly captures the diversity of Buddhist practice among medieval monks, ritual healers, and other individuals lost to history, offering a corrective to accounts that have overemphasized elite, canonical materials.

Author : Hilde Nielssen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004223875

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Ritual Imagination by Hilde Nielssen Pdf

Ritual Imagination is a study of spirit possession and ritual dynamics. Based on fieldwork in eastern Madagascar, Hilde Nielssen shows how tromba possession works as a flexible and fluid force, whose ritual imaginary playfully draws together elements from radically different cultural and social domains, thereby constituting human realities and creating ways of relating to changing and disjunctive circumstances. Tromba's strength lies in its fluid capacities to relate to ongoing social change by altering its own practices, while at the same time continuing to heal person and cosmos. The book critically addresses the still dominant perspective in anthropology, where rituals are understood as representations of culture and society. Using tromba as a pivotal case in the critique of ritual as representation, this book offers a fresh perspective on ritual and spirit possession.

Author : Kathleen Wiegner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89010840361

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W. B. Yeats and the Ritual Imagination by Kathleen Wiegner Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-27
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9789004466005

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Fictional Practice: Magic, Narration, and the Power of Imagination by Anonim Pdf

Tying on case studies from late antiquity to the 21st century, this is the first volume that systematically explores the inter-relationship between fictional narratives about magic and the real-world ritual art of practicing magicians.

Author : Johanna Sumiala
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780415684323

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Media and Ritual by Johanna Sumiala Pdf

This wide-ranging and accessible book offers a stimulating introduction to the field of media anthropology and the study of religious ritual. Johanna Sumiala explores the interweaving of rituals, communication and community. She uses the tools of anthropological enquiry to examine a variety of media events, including the death of Michael Jackson, a royal wedding and the transgressive actions which took place in Abu Ghraib, and to understand the inner significance of the media coverage of such events. The book deals with theories of ritual, media as ritual including reception, production and representation, and rituals of death in the media. It will be invaluable to students and scholars alike across media, religion and anthropology.

Author : Damon Zacharias Lycourinos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351329958

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Ritual Embodiment in Modern Western Magic by Damon Zacharias Lycourinos Pdf

In the Western world, magic has often functioned as an umbrella term for various religious beliefs and ritual practices that seek to influence events by harnessing supernatural power. The definition of these myriad occult and esoteric traditions have, however, usually come from those that are opposed to its practice; notably authorities in religious, legal and intellectual spheres. This book seeks to provide a new perspective, directly from the practitioners of modern Western magic, by exploring how a distinctive mode of embodiment and consciousness can produce a transition from an ‘ordinary’ to a ‘magical’ worldview. Starting with an introduction to the study of magic in the Western academy, the book then presents the author’s own participant observation of five ethnographic case studies of modern Western magic. The focus of these ethnographic case studies is directed towards ideas and methods the informants employ to self-legitimise and self-represent as ‘magicians’. It concludes by discussing the phenomenological implications and issues around embodiment that are inherent to the contemporary practice of magic. This is a unique insight into the lived experience of practitioners of modern magic. As such, it will be of keen interest to scholars of the Occult and New Religious Movements, as well as Religious Studies academics examining issues around the embodiment and the anthropology of religion.

Author : David Feinstein,Stanley Krippner
Publisher : Energy Psychology Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 160415036X

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Personal Mythology by David Feinstein,Stanley Krippner Pdf

Each and every one of us grapples with our own highly personal mythology-the psychic force that allows us to weave the fragments of our experience into coherent story. These mythologies shape our every thought, perception, and action, helping us to feel safe and secure in our identities. But when our personal mythologies do not grow and change along with us, we find ourselves stuck in self-defeating life patterns.In Personal Mythology, David Feinstein, Ph.D., and Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., hailed by Jean Houston as "masters of the geography of the inscapes," provide a series of detailed exercises developed over a combined 80 years of clinical practice, personal development workshops, and teaching on psychological topics. Using ritual, dreams, and imagination to liberate you from the mythologies of your childhood and culture, the 12-week course will ignite the mystery of a transformed inner life into authentic outer expression. This third edition of a life-changing classic has been revised to include a new Support Guide combining their ground-breaking model for incorporating Energy Psychology into the process of personal transformation.

Author : Gina Bria
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-28
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781462057603

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The Art of Family by Gina Bria Pdf

It is not the lack of time that crushes our family lives; it is the lack of presence, overwhelmed as we are with the tasks, anxieties, and guilt of being in a family. Between working, housecleaning, and parenting, how do we carve out a minute for ourselves? How can we give ourselves to our spouses and children in the conditions we find ourselves in? Gina Bria writes, This is how: by being presentnot in every moment [were tired enough!]but in key daily activities such as play, spiritual discussions, tender physical attention, and little daily rituals that can see us through the pace of life today to a strong, coherent, lived family life. With a warm, compassionate tone, anthropologist, nutritionist, and public speaker Gina Bria provides ideas for creating families that withstand the pressures of modern society. The key is creating a personal family culture around the domestic rituals associated with family, such as making your home your true haven from the outside world, really understanding how to play with your children and in your marriage, caring for each others bodies (young and old!) and finding a spiritual path to travel together. In essence, Gina Bria shows us how to assign meaning to everyday tasks, which builds a family that withstands conformity, rejection and conflict.

Author : Claudia Venhorst
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9783643903518

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Muslims Ritualising Death in the Netherlands by Claudia Venhorst Pdf

This study on the common practice of Islamic death rites in the Netherlands affords valuable insights in the lived religion of Muslims. Particularly in a small town context marked by migration and diversity, Muslims are challenged to re-imagine and re-invent their ritual repertoire. This results in dynamic ritual practices that are the product of vibrant negotiation processes in which rites interact with ritual actors and their (changing) contexts. The emerging ritual repertoire and their dynamics are widely overlooked in an institutionalized and traditional religion like Islam. (Series: Death Studies. Nijmegen Studies in Thanatology - Vol. 3)

Author : Margo Kitts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781108688062

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Elements of Ritual and Violence by Margo Kitts Pdf

Ritualized violence is by definition not haphazard or random, but seemingly intentional and often ceremonial. It has a long history in religious practice, as attested in texts and artifacts from the earliest civilizations. It is equally evident in the behaviors of some contemporary religious activists and within initiatory practices ongoing in many regions of the world. Given its longevity and cultural expanse, ritualized violence presumably exerts a pull deeply into the sociology, psychology, anthropology, theology, perhaps even ontology of its practitioners, but this is not transparent. This short volume will sketch the subject of ritualized violence, that is, it will summarize some established theories about ritual and about violence, and will ponder a handful of striking instantiations of their link.

Author : Garrett Green
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0802844847

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Imagining God by Garrett Green Pdf

Garrett Green examines the point at which divine revelation and human experience meet, where the priority of grace is acknowledged while allowing its dynamics to be described in analytical and comparative terms as a religious phenomenon.

Author : Christina M. Gschwandtner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781793647184

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Reading Religious Ritual with Ricoeur by Christina M. Gschwandtner Pdf

Reading Religious Ritual with Ricoeur: Between Fragility and Hope creates a dialogue between Ricœur’s hermeneutic philosophy and the interpretation of human ritual practices, especially as such practices are manifested within the context of Christian liturgy. In the first part of the book, Christina M. Gschwandtner shows that Ricœur’s account of religion would be deepened if it were to take into account not only the biblical texts but also forms of liturgical expression and ritual actions. She challenges Ricœur’s early reading of the symbol and second naïveté, broadens his interpretation of biblical texts and faith to consider religious actions more fully, and suggests that ritual can enhance human capacities. The second part of the book employs Ricœur’s hermeneutics in order to shed light on the analysis of liturgy, demonstrating that his accounts of truth, of the world of the text, of religious language, of the imagination, and of the formation of identity are all eminently applicable to liturgical experience. Reading Religious Ritual with Ricoeur shows that one of the most significant themes in Ricœur’s work—the tension between fragility and hope—is especially helpful for understanding what liturgy does and how it functions. Seeing how liturgy and ritual configure fragility and hope also enriches Ricœur’s account of the role and function of religion in human experience.