From Private Practice to Public Ritual - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Private Practice to Public Ritual write by Michael Dangler. This book was released on 2012-02-18. From Private Practice to Public Ritual available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Do you give good ritual? Each of us has a fire that burns within us, one that we feed with personal ritual. As we work at our personal altars, our inner fire burns brightly, magnifying and growing in strength, warmth, and love with each offering made and prayer spoken. The fire of our piety and devotion keeps us warm and strong in turn, deepening our lives and enhancing our spirits in the process. Designed for anyone trying to build their solitary practice or deepen their public ritual work, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in ritual studies. This book reflects the day-long, intensive training of the seminar given on Feb. 11, 2012, in Columbus, OH.
Pagan Fire Seminars I: Ritual Foundations Workbook
Pagan Fire Seminars I: Ritual Foundations Workbook - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pagan Fire Seminars I: Ritual Foundations Workbook write by Michael Dangler. This book was released on 2012-02-12. Pagan Fire Seminars I: Ritual Foundations Workbook available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the workbook for the first Pagan Fire Seminar event, Feb. 12, 2012.Each of us has a fire that burns within us, one that we feed with personal ritual. As we work at our personal altars, our inner fire burns brightly, magnifying and growing in strength, warmth, and love with each offering made and prayer spoken. The fire of our piety and devotion keeps us warm and strong in turn, deepening our lives and enhancing our spirits in the process.This seminar is designed to help you build that internal fire through an understanding of ritual, a deepening of personal practice, and showing you how to show the brightness of your fire when you stand in public ritual. By living your Paganism at home and walking your virtues in everyday life, you will build the skills needed to be both a competent public ritualist, and a leader in your local community.For additional information, or to order a teaching set of this material (including several workbooks, a handbook, and a DVD), contact us at garanuspublishing.com
The Practice of Concern
The Practice of Concern - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Practice of Concern write by John W. Traphagan. This book was released on 2004. The Practice of Concern available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Practice of Concern: Ritual, Well-Being, and Aging in Rural Japan explores ideas and practices related to religious ritual and health among older people in northern Japan. Drawing on more than three years of ethnographic fieldwork, Traphagan considers various forms of ritual performance and contextualizes these in terms of private and public spheres of activity. An important theme of the book is that for Japanese the expression of concern about family, friends, the community, and the nation is a central symbolic element in religious ritual practice. The book has important implications for research into religion and health, because it suggests that, in order to carry out successful cross-cultural research, it is necessary to move beyond conceptualizations of religion -- largely centering on concepts of belief, faith, forgiveness -- that have shaped much of the work in this area to date, because, as consideration of the Japanese context shows, the theological language of Western religions is not necessarily adequate to the task of understanding how health and religion are tied together in other cultures. Traphagan argues that there is a need to focus on how religious rituals are markers that symbolically convey information about embodied experience and how these markers express and are expressions of concerns about health and well-being. The Practice of Concern provides a detailed examination of Japanese religious practices both within the home and in the community, as well as a thorough discussion of Japanese concepts of health, well-being, and aging. In addition to those who are interested in medical anthropology, this book will be useful to gerontologists who are concerned with cross-cultural studies in aging. Because of the rich ethnographic detail presented, the book also provides an excellent introduction to Japanese religious and ritual practice and Japanese culture and society more broadly. This book is part of the Ethnographic Studies in Medical Anthropology Series, edited by Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh. "[T]he book's basic argument is indeed innovative... well worth reading." -- Pacific Affairs "John Traphagan demonstrates why cross-cultural studies are critically necessary if we are to understand the range of meanings and experiences of age and aging in a pluralistic world." -- Journal of Japanese Studies "Gerontologists will find the book illuminating in its treatment of aging in cultural context in Japan as well as the meaning and significance of ritual and religion in this society. The key concepts of aging--ritual--health/wellness are intertwined; Traphagan does an excellent job of explaining the linkages as well as the cultural factors responsible for maintaining these links." -- Journal of Intergenerational Relationship "In addressing the full spectrum of topics concerning older adults' health and well-being along with the vast array of Japanese religious rituals, The Practice of Concern is uniquely ambitious in scope. At the same time, it is a thoughtful, ethnographically grounded account of rural life in Japan that produces useful insights for anyone with an interest in the cross-cultural study of aging and religion." -- Journal of Religion, Spirituality & Aging
Private Practice Made Simple
Private Practice Made Simple - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Private Practice Made Simple write by Randy Paterson. This book was released on 2011-06-02. Private Practice Made Simple available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Running your own private practice takes more than an advanced degree, memberships in professional psychology organizations, and the ability to be a good therapist. And while your continuing education and training may be useful, setting up and managing a successful practice is a matter of business and organizational know-how as much as professional proficiency. If you're opening your own private practice or want to run your existing practice more efficiently, Private Practice Made Simple is your detailed guide. This book offers tips on everything from getting client referrals and creating a positive and comfortable office atmosphere to building a strong and thriving therapy practice that can serve both you and your clients. You'll learn how to attract clients as a new therapist and how to manage your practice as it grows. This complete tool kit will help you: Find an office and set up a treatment room Establish headache-free routines for organizing client information and forms Decide on a fee and manage your finances Prevent burnout by maintaining a healthy work-life balance
Gods, Objects, and Ritual Practice
Gods, Objects, and Ritual Practice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gods, Objects, and Ritual Practice write by Sandra Blakely. This book was released on 2017-07-01. Gods, Objects, and Ritual Practice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Conversations about materiality have helped forge a common meeting ground for scholars seeking to integrate images, sites, texts and implements in their approach to religion in the ancient Mediterranean. The thirteen chapters in this volume explore the productivity of these approaches, with case studies from Israel, Athens, Rome, Sicily and North Africa. The results foreground the capacity of material approaches to cast light on the cultural creation of the sacred through the integration of rhetorical, material, and iconographic means. They open more nuanced pathways to the uses of text in the study of material evidence. They highlight the potential for material objects to bring political and ethnic boundaries into the sacred realm. And they emphasize the role of ongoing interpretation, debate, and multiple readings in the creation of the sacred, in both ancient contexts and scholarly discussion.
