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Ritual Ground

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Author : Douglas C. Comer
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1996-12-23

Ritual Ground written by Douglas C. Comer and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-12-23 with History categories.

From about 1830 to 1849, Bent's Old Fort, located in present-day Colorado on the Mountain Branch of the Santa Fe Trail, was the largest trading post in the Southwest and the mountain-plains region. Although the raw enterprise and improvisation that characterized the American westward movement seem to have little to do with ritual, Douglas Comer argues that the fort grew and prospered because of ritual and that ritual shaped the subsequent history of the region to an astonishing extent. At Bent's Old Fort, rituals of trade, feasting, gaming, marriage, secret societies, and war, as well as the "calcified ritual" provided by the fort itself, brought together and restructured Anglo, Hispanic, and American Indian cultures. Comer sheds new light on this heretofore poorly understood period in American history, building at the same time a powerfully convincing case to demonstrate that the human world is made through ritual. Comer gives his narrative an anthropological and philosophical framework; the events at Bent's Old Fort provide a compelling example not only of "world formation" but of a world's tragic collapse, culminating in the Sand Creek massacre. He also calls attention to the reconstructed Bent's Old Fort on the site of the original. Here visitors reenact history, staff work out personal identities, and groups lobby for special versions of history by ritual recasting of the past as the present.

Holy Ground

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Author : Paulus Gijsbertus Johannes Post
language : en
Publisher: Peeters Pub & Booksellers
Release Date : 2010-01

Holy Ground written by Paulus Gijsbertus Johannes Post and has been published by Peeters Pub & Booksellers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01 with Religion categories.

In contemporary Western culture ritual spaces are preserved, destructed and reconstructed. Examples are the rearrangement of churches, the rise of multi-religious urban ritual spaces, the remarkable vitality of places of pilgrimage and war cemeteries, and the growing popularity of lieux de memoire in general with their accompanying forms of 'topolatry' and 'geopiety'. This volume - initiated by a Dutch research group - explores the transformations of ritual space in the modern West from various angles. The first programmatic part of the book focuses on the research into the triad of space/place, ritual and religion/sacrality and the essentially contested notion of the sacred. The next set of contributions deals with the relations between memorial culture and place. American 'landscapes of tragedy', memorial sites for the filmmaker and journalist Theo van Gogh and the popular Dutch singer Andre Hazes, and the Cancer Memorial Forest in The Netherlands that commemorates the victims of this disease, are analysed in some detail. The third part of the book situates ritual space in the tension between tradition and modernity. The examples of redundant church buildings and rooms of silence, and especially the construction of a new Roman Catholic Cathedral in Oakland, California, show how people construct and re-invent ritual spaces. In the final part, the vicissitudes of Mormon temple space and the wide-spread phenomenon of people ritually throwing coins into water are explored from a cultural-anthropological perspective. The triangle place/space, ritual, sacrality/religion proves to be crucial in the exploration of the processes of re-inventing ritual space in modern Western culture. New forms of memorialization mixed with traditional elements, changing relationships between private and public, individual and collective, temporary and permanent dimensions, and the contested character of sacred spaces all point to a new religious dynamics, characterized by the processes of individualisation, emotionalisation and de-institutionalisation.

Ritual Media And Conflict

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Author : Ronald L. Grimes
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011-03-23

Ritual Media And Conflict written by Ronald L. Grimes and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-23 with Religion categories.

Rituals can provoke or escalate conflict, but they can also mediate it and although conflict is a normal aspect of human life, mass media technologies are changing the dynamics of conflict and shaping strategies for deploying rituals. This collection of essays emerged from a two-year project based on collaboration between the Faculty of Religious Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands and the Ritual Dynamics Collaborative Research Center at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. An interdisciplinary team of twenty-four scholars locates, describes, and explores cases in which media-driven rituals or ritually saturated media instigate, disseminate, or escalate conflict. Each multi-authored chapter is built around global and local examples of ritualized, mediatized conflict. The book's central question is: "When ritual and media interact (either by the mediatizing of ritual or by the ritualizing of media), how do the patterns of conflict change?"

Common Ground

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Author : Patricia Kozak
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991

Common Ground written by Patricia Kozak and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Christian communities categories.

Sacred Ground To Sacred Space

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Author : Rowena Pattee Kryder
language : en
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Release Date : 1994-10

Sacred Ground To Sacred Space written by Rowena Pattee Kryder and has been published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-10 with Nature categories.

In her magnificent Sacred Ground to Sacred Space, visionary artist Rowena Pattee Kryder weaves together the scientific and spiritual traditions to reveal how the sacred is inherent in nature, and how we can get in touch with the qualities of subtle energy and light that are the power and codes for manifesting harmonious culture.

Ground In Stone

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Author : Elizabeth Lynch
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2021-11-16

Ground In Stone written by Elizabeth Lynch and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-16 with Social Science categories.

In Ground in Stone: Landscape, Social Identity, and Ritual Space on the High Plains, Elizabeth Lynch examines the insights and challenges of bedrock ground stone research in archaeological inquiry. Ground in Stone includes analyses of case studies to illustrate field data collection techniques as well as the rich social lives of ground in stone on the Chaquaqua Plateau. Lynch argues that the bedrock features in southeastern Colorado offer valuable insight into the archaeology of the High Plains because they are spaces where people gathered to craft important products—food, tools, and art. In doing so, these places anchored human movement to the landscape and became integral to story-telling and cultural lifeways.

Entering The Healing Ground

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Author : Francis Weller
language : en
Publisher: Wisdom Bridge Press
Release Date : 2012-07

Entering The Healing Ground written by Francis Weller and has been published by Wisdom Bridge Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07 with Grief categories.

This book explores the values inherent in grief, the multiple ways grief courses through our lives, the necessity of community and ritual to adequately release our sorrows and how to work with the obstacles we face that inhibit the free expression of our grief. Through story, poetry and insightful reflections, Francis offers a meditation on the healing power of grief.

Ritual Ground

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Author : Douglas C. Comer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993

Ritual Ground written by Douglas C. Comer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Bent's Fort (Colo.) categories.

Architecture And Ritual

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Author : Peter Blundell Jones
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-08-25

Architecture And Ritual written by Peter Blundell Jones and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-25 with Architecture categories.

Architecture and Ritual explores how the varied rituals of everyday life are framed and defined in space by the buildings which we inhabit. It penetrates beyond traditional assumptions about architectural style, aesthetics and utility to deal with something more implicit: how buildings shape and reflect our experience in ways of which we remain unconscious. Whether designed to house a grand ceremony or provide shelter for a daily meal, all buildings coordinate and consolidate social relations by giving orientation and focus to the spatial practices of those who use them. Peter Blundell Jones investigates these connections between the social and the spatial, providing critical insights into the capacity for architecture to structure human ritual, from the grand and formal to the mundane. This is achieved through deep readings of individual pieces of architecture, each with a detailed description of its particular social setting and use. The case studies are drawn from throughout architectural history and from around the globe, each enabling a distinct theoretical theme to emerge, and showing how social conventions vary with time and place, as well as what they have in common. Case studies range from the Nuremberg Rally to the Centre Pompidou, and from the Palace of Westminster to Dogon dwellings in Africa and a Modernist hospital. In considering how all architecture has to mesh with the habits, beliefs, rituals and expectations of the society that created it, the book presents deep implications for our understanding of architectural history and theory. It also highlights the importance for architects of understanding how buildings frame social space before they prescribe new architectural designs of their own. The book ends with a recent example of user participation, showing how contemporary user interest and commitment to a building can be as strong as ever.

Wielding Power

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Author : Charles R. Tetworth
language : en
Publisher: SteinerBooks
Release Date : 2002

Wielding Power written by Charles R. Tetworth and has been published by SteinerBooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.

What is ritual? How does it work? Charles R. Tetworth takes a look at ritual in its many aspects, ranging from its roles in the patterns of everyday life to its use in cementing a nation's political identity. The core of this book is a highly practical discussion of how to make and use the tools of rit-ual magic. Tetworth outlines what he calls the "bootstrap" approach. Following an extremely ancient tradition, the aspiring magician makes these tools from scratch, empowering them with dedication, hard work, and attention. Tetworth also shows how to use them to form a link between this world and the realms of the unseen, all the while stressing that magical power has its dangers and must be used with responsibility. Lively, humorous, and concise, Wielding Power is must reading for anyone interested in magic, Wicca, or the role of ritual in the life of the spirit. "This work is full of riches clearly drawn from long and intimate experience with and practice of the subject.... Anyone who follows the spiritual ways of action, devotion, or contemplation will find many of the exercises and med-itations enlightening in their fine detail, broad viewpoint, and profound implications" (from the foreword by Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi, author of The Work of the Kabbalist, School of the Soul, and Astrology and Kabbalah) C O N T E N T S: Foreword by Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi Introduction 1. Rituals of Life 2. Preparing the Ground 3. Time and Tides 4. Ritual and Language 5. Bootstrapping 6. The Training of an Apprentice 7. Empowerment 8. Worlds and Travelers 9. Survival 10. An Old Nation Afterword