Author: Samuel WaldegravePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Ritualistic Innovation
Author: Samuel WaldegraveA Pastor's Warning Word against Ritualistic Innovations; being a sermon preached in the parish church of Usk, Monmouthshire, etc
Author: Stephen Cattley BAKERPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Ritual Innovation
Author: Brian K. PenningtonPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438469039
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Challenges prevailing conceptions of what religious ritual does and how it achieves its ends. Religious rituals are often seen as unchanging and ahistorical bearers of long-standing traditions. But as this book demonstrates, ritual is a lively platform for social change and innovation in the religions of South Asia. Drawing from Hindu and Jain examples in India, Nepal, and North America,the essays in this volume, written by renowned scholars of religion, explore how the intentional, conscious, and public invention or alteration of ritual can effect dramatic social transformation, whether in dethroning a Nepali king or sanctioning same-sex marriage. Ritual Innovation shows how the very idea of ritual as a conservative force misreads the history of religion by overlooking rituals inherent creative potential and its adaptability to new contexts and circumstances. The breadth of coverage in Ritual Innovation is extraordinary and refreshing in terms of the types of contemporary ritual practices and practitioners receiving attention, not to mention the geographic spread across South Asia. This book makes a significant contribution to the scholarly literature on South Asian religions and contemporary Hinduism. Karline McLain, author of The Afterlife of Sai Baba: Competing Visions of a Global Saint
A Layman's Reply to Dr. Littledale's Lecture on Ritualistic Innovations
Author: Charles Hastings CollettePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lord's Supper
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Ritual Innovation in the Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism
Author: Nathan MacDonaldPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110392674
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Are the rituals in the Hebrew Bible of great antiquity, practiced unchanged from earliest times, or are they the products of later innovators? The canonical text is clear: ritual innovation is repudiated as when Jeroboam I of Israel inaugurate a novel cult at Bethel and Dan. Most rituals are traced back to Moses. From Julius Wellhausen to Jacob Milgrom, this issue has divided critical scholarship. With the rich documentation from the late Second Temple period, such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, it is apparent that rituals were changed. Were such rituals practiced, or were they forms of textual imagination? How do rituals change and how are such changes authorized? Do textual innovation and ritual innovation relate? What light might ritual changes between the Hebrew Bible and late Second Temple texts shed on the history of ritual in the Hebrew Bible? The essays in this volume engage the various issues that arise when rituals are considered as practices that may be invented and subject to change. A number of essays examine how biblical texts show evidence of changing ritual practices, some use textual change to discuss related changes in ritual practice, while others discuss evidence for ritual change from material culture.
Understanding Religious Ritual
Author: John HoffmannPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136889922
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
This book represents contributions from leading scholars from several disciplines that show the diversity of approaches to religious rituals, while also providing cross-disciplinary perspectives on this topic.
Ritual Reimagined
Author: Jacklyn Fromer CohenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Judaism
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Ritual Innovation
Author: Brian Kemble PenningtonPublisher: Suny Press
ISBN: 9781438469027
Category : Ritual
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Challenges prevailing conceptions of what religious ritual does and how it achieves its ends.
Innovation in Cultural Systems
Author: Michael John O'BrienPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262013339
Category : Diffusion of innovations
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Leading scholars offer a range of perspectives on the roles played by innovation in the evolution of human culture. In recent years an interest in applying the principles of evolution to the study of culture emerged in the social sciences. Archaeologists and anthropologists reconsidered the role of innovation in particular, and have moved toward characterizing innovation in cultural systems not only as a product but also as an evolutionary process. This distinction was familiar to biology but new to the social sciences; cultural evolutionists from the nineteenth to the twentieth century had tended to see innovation as a preprogrammed change that occurred when a cultural group "needed" to overcome environmental problems. In this volume, leading researchers from a variety of disciplines--including anthropology, archaeology, evolutionary biology, philosophy, and psychology--offer their perspectives on cultural innovation. The book provides not only a range of views but also an integrated account, with the chapters offering an orderly progression of thought. The contributors consider innovation in biological terms, discussing epistemology, animal studies, systematics and phylogeny, phenotypic plasticity and evolvability, and evo-devo; they discuss modern insights into innovation, including simulation, the random-copying model, diffusion, and demographic analysis; and they offer case studies of innovation from archaeological and ethnographic records, examining developmental, behavioral, and social patterns. Contributors André Ariew, R. Alexander Bentley, Werner Callebaut, Joseph Henrich, Anne Kandler, Kevin N. Laland, Daniel O. Larson, Alex Mesoudi, Michael J. O'Brien, Craig T. Palmer, Adam Powell, Simon M. Reader, Valentine Roux, Chet Savage, Michael Brian Schiffer, Jeffrey H. Schwartz, Stephen J. Shennan, James Steele, Mark G. Thomas, Todd L. VanPool
Rites of the God-King
Author: Marko GeslaniPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190862882
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Rites of the God-King offers a critical revision of mainstream Hinduism from the perspective of the life of a single ritual from medieval India. Drawing theoretical connections to modern ethnographies, it raises questions about the nature of kingship and priesthood, image-worship, and ritual change.