Religion, ritual and ritualistic objects

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 exp...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Nugteren, Albertina, 1955- editor (editor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basel, Switzerland : MDPI 2019.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • About the Special Issue Editor
  • Preface to "Religion, Ritual and Ritualistic Objects"
  • Introduction to the Special Issue Religion, Ritual, and Ritualistic Objects'
  • Matter in Motion: A Dogon Kanaga Mask
  • Requiescat in Pace'. Initiation and Assassination Rituals in the Assassin's Creed Game Series
  • Lambling Baka: Immanence, Rituals, and Sacred Objects in an Unwritten Legend in Alor
  • When Children Participate in the Death Ritual of a Parent: Funerary Photographs as Mnemonic Objects
  • The Ritualizing of the Martial and Benevolent Side of Ravana in Two Annual Rituals at the Sri Devram Maha Viharaya in Pannipitiya, Sri Lanka
  • On the Xiapu Ritual Manual Mani the Buddha of Light
  • Influences of Egyptian Lotus Symbolism and Ritualistic Practices on Sacral Tree Worship in the Fertile Crescent from 1500 BCE to 200 CE
  • Continuity and Discontinuity in 17th- and 18th-Century Ecclesiastical Silverworks from the Southern Andes
  • Prayers of Cow Dung: Women Sculpturing Fertile Environments in Rural Rajasthan (India)
  • Bare Feet and Sacred Ground: "Visnu Was Here".