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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"ritualization"”.
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The Ritualization of Violence in <em>The Magic Toyshop</em>
<p>This dissertation will explore the way Philip treats puppets and masks as pseudo-sacred objects in order to maintain control in Angela Carter’s work <em>The Magic Toyshop</em>. To show the implications of the pseudo-sacred, I will use <em>Violence and the Sacred</em> by Rene Girard that examines …
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Ritualization - Hybridization - Fragmentation : The Mutability of Roman Vessels in Germania Magna AD 1–400
… around three case studies. The first one, on ritualization, investigates how vessels of Roman origin were utilized in Germanic funerary rituals. It analyses the funerary context as a field of social practice through which significance is generated and transformed, thus illuminating the …
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Immanent Technologies: Posthuman Digital Religion in America
… embodied, networked, and ecological sense of ritualization and digital media this dissertation avoids logocentric, genderless, and disembodied theories of both religion and the digital while bringing a posthuman epistemology to religion, death, and media studies.</p>
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Immanent Technologies: Posthuman Digital Religion In America
… embodied, networked, and ecological sense of ritualization and digital media this dissertation avoids logocentric, genderless, and disembodied theories of both religion and the digital while bringing a posthuman epistemology to religion, death, and media studies. </p>
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Where the dancer meets her divine: dance as religious experience in the lives of Loie Fuller and Isadora Duncan
… definition of religion and Catherine Bell's ritualization) in order to situate a religious experience within a dancing body. Ultimately, I conclude that dance was indeed a site of religious experience for Fuller and Duncan--an experience created through their dynamic processes of embedding …
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Lectures in transition : a study of communicative practices in the humanities in a South African university
… as well as spoken and written language; c) ritualization theory (Bell, McLaren), and how bodies mediate in practices.
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Family Rituals and Resilience: Relationship Among Measures of Religiosity, Openness to Experience, and Trait Anxiety
… and nontraditional families on level of ritualization. This finding may be indicative of a useful direction for subsequent research inquiry.
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Casting a Line to the Land: Narratologies of Embodied Rituals and Connectivity to Place
… fly fishing as a form of ritual and process of ritualization, this study looks at how ritual affords fly anglers a connective relationship with place. This ritualized connection extends beyond mere doing and evokes cultivation of a deeper sensibility of and towards place. Present here is …
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Community engagement as a new and contested ritual: an ethnographic study of five pentecostal congregations in El Salvador
… both to understanding the importance of ritualization for Pentecostals and to discussions about the role of Pentecostal congregations in development. The thesis suggests that the role of Pentecostal congregations in community development is contingent upon pastors’ authority to introduce …
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Rituals of the enchanted world: Noh theater and religion in medieval Japan
… ritual through dynamic and evolving schemes of ritualization and mythmaking, rather than ritual as a superimposed structure. Chapters Two through Five are analyses of four Noh plays, Kanawa, Dōjōji, Yamamba, and Hyakuman. This selection reflects my argument that a particularly efficacious form …
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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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Jah in the Flesh: An Examination of Spirit, Power, and Divine Envesselment in Rastafari
… the oppressive neocolonial state through their ritualization of Jah spirit and power. The study uses an African-centered epistemological approach to argue that the Rastafari belief that Jah dwells within them is not only an embrace of the spirit but an ethos rooted in the history of contestation …
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Jist Lak...De White Folks': 'Jumping theBroom As A Case Study In Exploring theIntercultural and Atlantic Dimensions of Southern Society
… dominance. In a similar vein, elites deployed ritualization to distinguish their own status from populations who used this form of marriage. The use of memory reveals how cultures change and adapt to generational gaps. This thesis argues that detachment from the past causes recreation of …
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Discovering Epic, Constructing Culture: Culture-Politics on China’s Western Frontier
… may be productively analyzed as aspects of ‘ritualization’. This thesis attempts to bring ritual theory in anthropology into intercourse with topics as diverse as genre theory, rhetoric, exemplarity, and performance, arguing that Chinese political discourse is far more than mere sloganeering. …
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Sermons in Stones: Mormon Chosenness and the Politics of Land in the American West
<p>This study explores the intersection of religion, land use, and political resistance in Latter-day Saint culture, arguing that Mormon land ethics are shaped by a ritualized process I term the “Cycle of Chosenness.” Through historical and ethnographic analysis, I trace how collective memory of …