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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Ritual Studies"”.
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Religion and hegemony : A Gramscian approach to the Chavín Staff God
… assign social meanings to religious imagery or ritual practices. By idealizing religious practices, their responses to the Staff God icon and its rituals fail to adequately explain why generations of leaders, to the Inka, invested resources of material and labor on expanding a religious symbol …
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GESTURES TOWARDS EMPTINESS: AN EXPLORATION OF RITUAL WITH REFERENCE TO BUDDHIST TRADITION AND INNOVATION
… is a cross-relational enquiry into the nature of ritual as the subject of arts-based research. It can be described as ritual-led; or as an artist's manifestation of ritual. The core of the submission consists in an exhibition, comprising 30 pieces of framed, wall-hung artwork; 3 artist's books; …
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Play for Mortal Stakes: Funerals as Modernist Acts of Fiction
… purpose of this dissertation is to examine the ritualization of death in British literature of the interwar period and its implication for narrative and genre. The authors under consideration include poets of the Great War (Robert Graves, Charles Sorley, Isaac Rosenberg, the Sitwells), and later …
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The Ngoma Consciousness: IsiNgqi neSandi as existing and accessible tools for healing and therapy in Africa
This thesis explores the ritual archive of isingqi (energy, rhythm and vibration) used in Ngoma (the divination arts and ecology) through ingoma (traditional sound and chants) as accessible tools for healing and therapy. Ngoma, etymologically, is a proto-Bantu term for an African praxis within …
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Reimagining keening: an examination of the reinvention of Irish lament as a healing tool in the contemporary world
… lament as a tool for emotional and spiritual wellbeing. This new way of doing ‘keening’ has found how, through a reinvention of this old tradition, a synthesis of the sonic and the spiritual generates the development of ‘sonic wellbeing tools’ for workshop participants. At its core, …
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Worship Music As Spiritual Identity: An Examination Of Music In The Liturgy Among Black And White Adventists In The United States From 1840 To 1944
… the liturgy, and the effect of music upon the spiritual identity. This study utilized liturgical history, ritual studies, musicology, and liturgical theology to derive and compare the spiritual identity fostered through music in the liturgy by these ethnic groups. This study considered both the …
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Praying, believing and being church : a ritual-liturgical exploration
… Liturgical inculturation; Culture; Prayer; Ritual; Ritualisation; Inclusivity; Unity; Practical Theology; Ecclesiology.
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It's a birth not a procedure: an ethnographic study of intrauterine fetal death in a labor and delivery unit of an american hospital setting
… a significant area within anthropological studies of ritual. It is important to investigate how individuals, groups, and communities organize around these events. Birth and death can be considered as <i>rites of passage</i> that mark key life transitions (van Gennep 1909/1960). Thus birth …