Ritual Offerings

Author : Catherine Bell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199739479

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Ritual by Catherine Bell Pdf

From handshakes and toasts to chant and genuflection, ritual pervades our social interactions and religious practices. Still, few of us could identify all of our daily and festal ritual behaviors, much less explain them to an outsider. Similarly, because of the variety of activities that qualify as ritual and their many contradictory yet, in many ways, equally legitimate interpretations, ritual seems to elude any systematic historical and comparative scrutiny. In this book, Catherine Bell offers a practical introduction to ritual practice and its study; she surveys the most influential theories of religion and ritual, the major categories of ritual activity, and the key debates that have shaped our understanding of ritualism. Bell refuses to nail down ritual with any one definition or understanding. Instead, her purpose is to reveal how definitions emerge and evolve and to help us become more familiar with the interplay of tradition, exigency, and self-expression that goes into constructing this complex social medium.

Author : Aaron Leitch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1957758031

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Ritual Offerings by Aaron Leitch Pdf

Author : Elizabeth P. Benson,Anita G. Cook
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292757950

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Ritual Sacrifice in Ancient Peru by Elizabeth P. Benson,Anita G. Cook Pdf

Propitiating the supernatural forces that could grant bountiful crops or wipe out whole villages through natural disasters was a sacred duty in ancient Peruvian societies, as in many premodern cultures. Ritual sacrifices were considered necessary for this propitiation and for maintaining a proper reciprocal relationship between humans and the supernatural world. The essays in this book examine the archaeological evidence for ancient Peruvian sacrificial offerings of human beings, animals, and objects, as well as the cultural contexts in which the offerings occurred, from around 2500 B.C. until Inca times just before the Spanish Conquest. Major contributions come from the recent archaeological fieldwork of Steve Bourget, Anita Cook, and Alana Cordy-Collins, as well as from John Verano's laboratory work on skeletal material from recent excavations. Mary Frame, who is a weaver as well as a scholar, offers rich new interpretations of Paracas burial garments, and Donald Proulx presents a fresh view of the nature of Nasca warfare. Elizabeth Benson's essay provides a summary of sacrificial practices.

Author : Brenda Ralph Lewis
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780752494821

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Ritual Sacrifice by Brenda Ralph Lewis Pdf

The principle of sacrifice is as old as human life itself. This book provides an overview of sacrificial practices around the world since prehistoric times. It also examines the reasons behind these rituals, and in the case of human sacrifice an attempt is made to understand the mentality of the 'victims' who often willingly went to their deaths.

Author : Aaron Leitch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Magic
ISBN : 099056875X

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Author : Bryan C. Babcok
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575068770

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Sacred Ritual by Bryan C. Babcok Pdf

Israelite festival calendar texts (Exod 23; 34; Lev 23; Num 28–29; Deut 16; and Ezek 45) share many features; however, there are also differences. Some of the most-often-cited differences are the following: festival dates, festival locations, date of the New Year, festival timing, and festival names. Scholars have explored these distinctions, and many have concluded that different sources (authors/redactors) wrote the various calendars at different times in Israelite history. Scholars use these dissimilarities to argue that Lev 23 was written in the exilic or postexilic era. Babcock offers a new translation and analysis of a second-millennium B.C. multimonth ritual calendar text from Emar (Emar 446) to challenge the late dating of Lev 23. Babcock argues that Lev 23 preserves an early (2nd-millennium) West Semitic ritual tradition. Building on the recent work of Klingbeil and Sparks, this book presents a new comparative methodology for exploring potential textual relationships. Babcock investigates the attributes of sacred ritual through the lens of sacred time, sacred space and movement, sacred objects, ritual participants, and ritual sound. The author begins with a study of ancient Near Eastern festival texts from the 3rd millennium through the 1st millennium. This analysis focuses on festival cycles, common festival attributes, and the role of time and space in ritual. Babcock then moves on to an intertextual study of biblical festival texts before completing a thorough investigation of both Lev 23 and Emar 446. The result is a compelling argument that Lev 23 preserves an early West Semitic festival tradition and does not date to the exilic era—refuting the scholarly consensus. This illuminating reading stands as a model for future research in the field of ritual and comparative textual studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 8186470514

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A Manual of Ritual Fire Offerings by Anonim Pdf

The Ritual Fire Offering, which is derived from Indian tradition, plays an important part in buddhist Tantric Practice. The Ritual Fire Offering for Peace is commonly performed at the conclusion of the prescribed meditation retreat associated with specific meditational deities, in order to compensate for any errors that may have occurred during the practice. The Ritual Fire Offering for Increase may be Performed to increase merit, wealth, life span and so forth. This manual contains translations of texts required to perform the Ritual Fire Offering for Peace associated with six meditational deities: Thirteen Deity Vajrabhairava, Solitary Hero Vajrabhairava, Guhyasamaja, Heruka, Vajra Yogini, and Cittamani Tara, according to the Gelugpa traditon of Tibetan Buddhism. It further includes a description of the changes required to convert the ritual for peace to the ritual for increase in association with Guhyasamaja. The texts have been clearly presented in English to enable people who are qualified by initiation, but who do not know Tibetan, to understand the stages and Procedures of Ritual Fire Offerings so that they may perform them effectively.

Author : James W. Watts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1139464671

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Ritual and Rhetoric in Leviticus by James W. Watts Pdf

Ritual and Rhetoric in Leviticus uses rhetorical analysis to expose the motives behind the writing of the central book of the Torah/Pentateuch and its persuasive function in ancient Judaism. The answer to the question, 'who was trying to persuade whom of what by writing these texts?' proves to be quite consistent throughout Leviticus 1-16: Aaronide high priests and their supporters used this book to legitimize their monopoly over the ritual offerings of Jews and Samaritans. With this priestly rhetoric at its center, the Torah supported the rise to power of two priestly dynasties in Second Temple Judaism. Their ascendancy in turn elevated the prestige and rhetorical power to the book, making it the first real scripture in Near Eastern and Western religious traditions.

Author : Patricia Ann McAnany
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849505468

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Dimensions of Ritual Economy by Patricia Ann McAnany Pdf

Increasingly, economists have acknowledged that a major limitation to economic theory has been its failure to incorporate human values and beliefs as motivational factors. This book explores how values and beliefs structure the dual processes of provisioning and consuming.

Author : John Tracy Thames, Jr.
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004429116

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The Politics of Ritual Change by John Tracy Thames, Jr. Pdf

In The Politics of Ritual Change, John Thames explores the intersection of ritual and politics in the zukru festival texts from Emar and suggests a new understanding of the Hittite Empire’s relationship to northern Syria in the 13th century BCE.

Author : Rowan Flad,Anke Hein,Bryan K. Miller
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781950446414

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Ritual and Economy in East Asia by Rowan Flad,Anke Hein,Bryan K. Miller Pdf

In commemoration of Lothar von Falkenhausens 60th birthday, this volume assembles eighteen scholarly essays that explore the intersection between art, economy, and ritual in ancient East Asia. The contributions are clustered into four themes: Ritual Economy, Ritual and Sacrifice, Technology, Community, Interaction, and Objects and Meaning, which collectively reflect the theoretical, methodological, and historical questions that Falkenhausen has been examining via his scholarship, research, and teaching throughout his career. Most of the chapters work with archaeological and textual data from China, but there are also studies of materials from Mongolia, Korea, Southeast Asia and even Egypt, showing the global impact of Falkenhausens work. The chronological range of studies extends from the Neolithic through the Bronze Age in China, into the early imperial, medieval, and early modern periods. The authors discuss art, economy, ritual, interaction, and technology in the broad context of East Asian archaeology and its connection to the world beyond.

Author : Rubén G. Mendoza
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031366000

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Ritual Human Sacrifice in Mesoamerica by Rubén G. Mendoza Pdf

Author : Matt J. Rossano
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000175950

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Ritual in Human Evolution and Religion by Matt J. Rossano Pdf

This book explores the role of ritual in social life, human evolution, and religion. It explains the functions and purpose of varied rituals across the world by arguing they are mechanisms of ‘resource management’, providing a descriptive tool for understanding rituals and generating predictions about ritual survival. By showing how rituals have resulted from the need to cultivate social resources necessary to sustain cooperative groups, Rossano presents a unique examination of the function of rituals and how they cultivate, mobilize, and direct psychological resources. Rossano examines rituals from a diverse range of historical contexts, including the Greco-Romans, Soviet Russians, and those in ‘crisis cults’. The book shows how rituals address societal and community problems by cultivating three psychological resources – commitment to communal values, goodwill (both of humans and supernatural agents) and social support or social capital. Holding communities together in the face of threat, disaster, or apathy is one of ritual’s primary functions, and the author describes how our ancestors used ritual to become the highly social, inter-dependent primate that is Homo sapiens. Including examples from all over the world and providing detailed descriptions of both past and current ritual practices, this is fascinating reading for students and academics in psychology, sociology, religion, anthropology, and sociology.

Author : Robert W. Hefner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691028569

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Hindu Javanese by Robert W. Hefner Pdf

The description for this book, Hindu Javanese: Tengger Tradition and Islam, will be forthcoming.

Author : Maaike Groot
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789089640222

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Animals in Ritual and Economy in a Roman Frontier Community by Maaike Groot Pdf

Religion - Opfer - Ritus - Ernährung.