The Interweaving of Rituals - 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 Interweaving of Rituals write by Nicolas Standaert. This book was released on 2011-07-01. The Interweaving of Rituals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The death of the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci in China in 1610 was the occasion for demonstrations of European rituals appropriate for a Catholic priest and also of Chinese rituals appropriate to the country hosting the Jesuit community. Rather than burying Ricci immediately in a plain coffin near the church, according to their European practice, the Jesuits followed Chinese custom and kept Ricci's body for nearly a year in an air-tight Chinese-style coffin and asked the emperor for burial ground outside the city walls. Moreover, at Ricci's funeral itself, on their own initiative the Chinese performed their funerary rituals, thus starting a long and complex cultural dialogue in which they took the lead during the next century. The Interweaving of Rituals explores the role of ritual - specifically rites related to death and funerals - in cross-cultural exchange, demonstrating a gradual interweaving of Chinese and European ritual practices at all levels of interaction in seventeenth-century China. This includes the interplay of traditional and new rituals by a Christian community of commoners, the grafting of Christian funerals onto established Chinese practices, and the sponsorship of funeral processions for Jesuit officials by the emperor. Through careful observation of the details of funerary practice, Nicolas Standaert illustrates the mechanics of two-way cultural interaction. His thoughtful analysis of the ritual exchange between two very different cultural traditions is especially relevant in today's world of global ethnic and religious tension. His insights will be of interest to a broad range of scholars, from historians to anthropologists to theologians.
Do Funerals Matter?
Do Funerals Matter? - 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 Do Funerals Matter? write by William G. Hoy. This book was released on 2013-03-05. Do Funerals Matter? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Do Funerals Matter? is a creative interweaving of historical, sociocultural, and research-based perspectives on death rituals, drawing from myriad sources to create a picture of what death rituals have been; and where, especially in the Western world, they are going. Death educators, researchers, counselors, clergy, funeral-service professionals, and others will appreciate the book’s theory- and research-based approach to the ways in which different cultural groups memorialize their dead. They will also find clear clinical and practical applications in the author’s exploration of the five ritual anchors of death-related ceremonial practice and help for professionals counseling the bereaved surrounding funerals. Based on nearly three decades of research and teaching on funeral rites, this volume promises to fill an important gap in the cross-cultural literature on bereavement, while answering an important question for our generation: Do funerals matter?
Media and Ritual
Media and 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 Media and Ritual write by Johanna Sumiala. This book was released on 2013. Media and Ritual available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This wide-ranging and accessible book offers a stimulating introduction to the field of media anthropology and the study of religious ritual. Johanna Sumiala explores the interweaving of rituals, communication and community. She uses the tools of anthropological enquiry to examine a variety of media events, including the death of Michael Jackson, a royal wedding and the transgressive actions which took place in Abu Ghraib, and to understand the inner significance of the media coverage of such events. The book deals with theories of ritual, media as ritual including reception, production and representation, and rituals of death in the media. It will be invaluable to students and scholars alike across media, religion and anthropology.
Discourse in Ritual Studies
Discourse in Ritual Studies - 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 Discourse in Ritual Studies write by Hans Schilderman. This book was released on 2007. Discourse in Ritual Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Discourse in Ritual Studies" offers an introduction into the study of public worship from the perspective of ritual studies.The contributing authors confront an action-oriented and empirical approach of ritual studies with perennial and normative questions that characterize the study of liturgy.
Ite missa est—Ritual Interactions around Mass in Chinese Society (1583–1720)
Ite missa est—Ritual Interactions around Mass in Chinese Society (1583–1720) - 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 Ite missa est—Ritual Interactions around Mass in Chinese Society (1583–1720) write by Hongfan Yang. This book was released on 2021-11-22. Ite missa est—Ritual Interactions around Mass in Chinese Society (1583–1720) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first book dedicated to the propagation of the Mass in late Imperial China unfolds dynamic interactions between this essential Catholic ritual and various cultural expressions in Chinese society, including traditional religion, architecture, art, literature, government, and theology.
