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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Ritual Practice"”.
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Middle-Class Identity and Hindu Women's Ritual Practice in South India
… difference and modifications to Hindu women’s rituals to explore the continuous construction of middle-class identities in the changing social milieu of contemporary India. In considering the role of ritual in the (re)formation of middle-class identities and communities amongst the SMVS group …
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Understanding How Consumers and Discourses Respond to Ritual Practice Disruption: Two Studies
… of our daily lives. From mundane to milestone ritual practices, during the pandemic people could no longer engage in activities in the ways they had typically been performed. Despite a growing number of studies exploring how people responded to pandemic restrictions, we still have little …
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Consumer holiday structure: an analysis of Christian holiday patterns and consumer ritual practice in America
This thesis explores the rituals that reinforce American capitalist consumerism, specifically focusing on the Christian holiday calendar structure. Major Christian holidays are viewed as complex sets and repeated patterns, involving inversions and binary oppositions. A structuralist analysis is …
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“God Is My Quarantine Buddy”: Debates in Ritual Practice Among North American Pagans in 2020
The past four decades of research in the contemporary paganism faith movement in the United States have focused on the creation of cosmologies based on scholarship, reclamations of heritage, counter-culturalism, and environmentalism. However, the dialogue has changed drastically in recent years due …
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'One nation under God': the pledge of allegiance as a ritual practice in American civil religion
… neglect in the study of American civil religious ritual. It argues that a primary carrier for American civil religion has been the public school system and that one vehicle used in the task of perpetuating the American identity has been the civil religious ritual of saying the Pledge of Allegiance …
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Conversion and Ritualisation: an analysis of how westerners enter the International Society for Krishna Consciousness and assimilate its values and practices
… ISKCON and assimilate its values, beliefs, and practices. This thesis thus critically examines conversion models/theories and seeks to refine our understanding of conversion, especially in relation to groups in which everyday ritual practice plays a central role. My research is based on the …
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Threshold moves : a ritual poetry practice
This thesis identifies and explores a practice of ritual poetry. Drawing on creative writing and embodied ritual practice, as well as theory from poetry, performance and anthropology, I form new theoretical and practical understandings of a field of ritual poetry. The thesis is driven by and …
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Outcomes of Conversion to Judaism through the Reform Movement 1952-2002
… Recognising the large variation in the Jewish practice and attitudes displayed, I also examined the influence of motivational, family and biographical factors on their Jewish identity. Motivation for conversion was multi-dimensional. The instrumental desire to create family unity was identified …
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Sensory perception, religious ritual, and reformation in Germany, 1428-1564
This dissertation analyzes religious ritual in fifteenth and sixteenth century Germany. It argues that the history of ritual behavior in this period discloses what can be described as a cultural ‘reformation of the senses.’ Previous histories of religious behavior in this period have approached …
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Invisibility Spells in the Greek Magical Papyri: Prolegomena, Texts, and Commentaries
… attempt to answer key questions concerning the ritual practices found in the extant invisibility spells. How does the practitioner envision invisibility? For what reasons does he employ such spells? Who is the practitioner? The prolegomena also introduce and survey the Greek texts themselves. …
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The Huacas of Machu Picchu: Inca Stations for The Communion Between Humanity and Nature
… Inca city of Machu Picchu integrated human ritual with the surrounding landscape. I argue that huacas defined the relationship between nature and ritual practice by forcing an esoteric choreography which involved specific postures of the participant in order to visually orient humans to …
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Neo-paganism: ritual forged by the Burning Times
… two means. First, it can be seen, through Ritual practice within Pagan covens. Second, the Burning Times can be seen when Pagans make the decision whether to be “outâ€� or closeted. Throughout both of these areas of study, the element of ambivalence can be seen.
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The mystic 'it' and the centre of culture : an ethnographic experience with a women's drumming circle
… of the multicultural construction of their ritual group; and a detailed reading of a few academic texts that are representative of the dominant discourse in their respective branches of the study of anthropology. The emphasis of the paper is on points of convergence and difference between …
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Net-Bags and Looking Glasses: Writing in Sympoiesis
… explores the concept of storytelling as a ritual practice and the idea of sympoiesis as a framework for understanding cultural production. The essay reflects on my childhood experience of collecting and sewing bags, which served as containers for various treasures. Drawing inspiration from …
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A Ritual Aesthetics of Loss and Memory among the Boe (Bororo)
… to practise intricate and extended mortuary ritual cycles. Alongside mourning deceased kin, these funerals evoke another perceived loss: the decline of ritual life itself, also equated with ‘culture’ as such. This thesis examines how Boe ritual practice shapes personal experiences of time, …
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Making Love in the English Reformation: Carving Images in the Temple of Our Harts
… and the ubiquity of representations of ritual practice in early modern English poetry. Reconstructing a cultural history that centralizes the continuing role of Catholicism in the period, I historicize the poetic figuration of both traditional and reform practices in love poetry. The …
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Domesticated Dogs in the Art and Archaeology of Iron Age and Roman Britain
… Wait 1985, Hill 1995). Dramatic evidence for ritual practice involving animals found at a Romano-British temple complex in Springhead, Kent, and comparable finds from both sacred and secular sites, suggest that domestic dogs were also a favoured sacrifice during this period. As well as …
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Saintly Investments: Pilgrimage Development And Contemporary Hinduism In India
… and aesthetic and administrative aspects of ritual practice, and then track the consequences of this investment and interest for pilgrims by studying the development projects of "religious and charitable trusts" led by Gogameri pilgrims in urban north India. In a period represented by rises …
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Following Sayyida Zaynab: Twelver Shi‘ism in Contemporary Syria
… Khamenei have called the bloody flagellation practices, which have only increased in popularity in Sayyida Zaynab over the past few decades, ‘backward’ and ‘irrational.’ Why do these outsiders condemn these Twelver Shi‘is and their Muharram rituals? Why are ‘traditional’ practices popular in …
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