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Oxford University Press Greek Nymphs
Book SynopsisGreek Nymphs: Myths, Cult, Lore is the first comprehensive study of the nymph in the ancient Greek world. This well-illustrated book examines nymphs as both religious and mythopoetic figures, tracing their development and significance in Greek culture from Homer through the Hellenistic period. Drawing upon a broad range of literary and archaeological evidence, Jennifer Larson discusses sexually powerful nymphs in ancient and modern Greek folklore, the use of dolls representing nymphs in the socialization of girls, the phenomenon of nympholepsy, the nymphs'' relations with other deities in the Greek pantheon, and the nymphs'' role in mythic narratives of city-founding and colonization. The book includes a survey of the evidence for myths and cults of the nymphs arranged by geographical region, and a special section of the worship of nymphs in caves throughout the Greek world.Trade ReviewThe strength of Larson's project lies in its meticulous presentation of detail, her careful survey of the literary and epigraphical sources, and her clear translations of Greek material probably unfamiliar to most readers. * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *
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Oxford University Press Polytheism and Society at Athens
Book SynopsisThis book is the first attempt that has ever been made to give a comprehensive account of the religious life of ancient Athens. The city''s many festivals are discussed in detail, with attention to recent anthropological theory; so too, for instance, are the cults of households and of smaller groups, the role of religious practice and argumentation in public life, the authority of priests, the activities of religious professionals such as seers and priestesses, magic, the place of theatrical representations of the gods within public attitudes to the divine. A long final section considers the sphere of activity of the various gods, and takes Athens as a uniquely detailed test case for the structuralist approach to polytheism. The work is a synchronic, thematically organized complement (though designed to be read independently) to the same author''s Athenian Religion: A History (Oxford 1996).Trade Review...[this book] points the way to future developments in the study of both Athenian and Greek religion...an important contribution which certainly deserves its 2005 Criticos Award. * Julia L. Shear, Journal of Hellenic Studies *...one of the best books I have read on ancient religion and one of the most useful. * James Davidson, London Review of Books *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; I ; 1. Ancestral Gods, Ancestral Tombs: The Household and Beyond ; 2. 'Those with whom I sacrifice' ; 3. Places of Cult: Athens and the Demes ; 4. International Religion ; 5. Who prays for Athens? Religion in Civic Life ; 6. 'Those who make a profession out of rites': Unlicensed Religion, and Magic ; 7. Religion in the Theatre ; II ; 8. Festivals and their Celebrants ; 9. Things Done at Festivals ; 10. The Festival Year ; 11. Parthenoi in Ritual ; 12. The Panathenaea ; 13. Women's Festivals: Thesmophoria and Adonia ; 14. The Anthesteria and other Dionysiac Rites ; 15. Eleusinian Festivals ; 16. Festivals, Rituals, Myths: Reprise ; 17. Gods at Work I: Protecting the City ; 18. Gods at Work II: The Growth of Plants and Men ; Epilogue
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Oxford University Press A Different Medicine
Book SynopsisDrawing on two years of ethnographic field research among the Navajos, this book explores a controversial Native American ritual and healthcare practice: ceremonial consumption of the psychedelic Peyote cactus in the context of an indigenous postcolonial healing movement called the Native American Church (NAC), which arose in the 19th century in response to the creation of the reservations system and increasing societal ills, including alcoholism. The movement is the locus of cultural conflict with a long history in North America, and stirs very strong and often opposed emotions and moral interpretations. Joseph Calabrese describes the Peyote Ceremony as it is used in family contexts and federally funded clinical programs for Native American patients. He uses an interdisciplinary methodology that he calls clinical ethnography: an approach to research that involves clinically informed and self-reflective immersion in local worlds of suffering, healing, and normality. Calabrese combined Trade ReviewA welcome addition to the literature ... Recommended. * G.R. Campbell, CHOICE *This book is an exceptional shift from earlier works. Calabrese's careful analysis of Navajo Native American Church Peyotists and his acquired respect for their ritual experiences is manifested when he explains in detail how he combines experiential with interpretive learning Calabrese makes a strong argument about the difference between contemporary drug use and the ritual use of peyote in the Native American Church. He investigates and argues with systematic rigor from his extensive clinical experience for the goal of accurately providing new interpretations that are informed by the collective and the personal, drawing attention to the various forms of suffering and healing during both colonial and postcolonial times Calabrese is concerned with how this collision of cultures and peoples came to assume its present form and writes eloquently about how different cultures orient themselves to their land. * Dr. Inés Talamantez, Mescalero Apache tribe, History of Religions *This remarkable 'clinical ethnography' provides a deep, experiential account of the Native American Church, its ritual forms, integration into the multi-generational lives of families, and therapeutic value in countering 'postcolonial disorders' in a Navajo community. The book provides a searing critique of the continued criminalization of the sacramental use of peyote in NAC rituals, demonstrating how the War on Drugs recalls and perpetuates the colonial Inquisition of native peoples associated with the American Indian holocaust. * Byron J Good, Professor of Medical Anthropology, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Department of Anthropology, Harvard University *Joseph D. Calabrese's A Different Medicine: Postcolonial Healing in the Native American Church is an excellent, thought-provoking study of Navajo Native American Church (NAC) members whose ceremonial activities involve ritual peyote use... This text is highly recommended for scholars and students of Indigenous religions, religion in America, religion and healing, and ritual studies. * Nova Religio *In summary this book is an excellent addition to the existing literature on the Native American Church, especially because it tries to acknowledge and circumvent existing cultural prejudices, in order to engender an analysis rooted in mutual respect. This is not only important for the use of a powerful psychedelic substance, but also to bring to light the negative impact of colonialism and to envision a world in which the pain that is still alive among Native Americans can be healed and overcome. * Pieter Stokkink, OPEN Foundation *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ; Preface: Hard to Swallow: The Challenge of Radical Cultural Differences ; PART 1. Anthropological and Clinical Orientations ; I Introduction: Peyote, Cultural Paradigm Clash, and the Multiplicity of the Normal ; II Expanding Our Conceptualization of the Therapeutic: Toward a Suitable Theoretical Framework for the Study of Cultural Psychiatries ; III Clinical Ethnography: Clinically-Informed Self-Reflective Immersion in Local Worlds of Suffering, Healing and Wellbeing ; PART 2. Cultural and Personal Healing in the Native American Church ; IV The Unfolding Cultural Paradigm Clash: Ritual Peyote Use and the Struggle for Postcolonial Healing in North America ; V Medicine and Spirit: The Dual Nature of Peyote ; VI The Peyote Ceremony: Psychopharmacology, Ritual Process, and Experiences of Healing ; VII Kinship, Socialization, and Ritual in Navajo Peyotist Families ; VIII Postcolonial Hybridity and Ritual Bureaucracy in New Mexico: Participant Observation in a Navajo Peyotist Healer's Clinical Program ; IX Decolonizing Our Understandings of the Normal and the Therapeutic ; References
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Book SynopsisTrevor Curnow is a lecturer at St Martin's College, Lancaster. His previous publications include Wisdom, Intuition and Ethics (1999) and Thinking through Dialogue (2001).
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