Worship, rites, ceremonies and rituals Books
Brill Schoningh Wenn Himmel Und Erde Sich Berühren: Die
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£107.35
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus / Studien zur
Book SynopsisThis festschrift unites exegetical and research-historical studies on early Christianity and the religio-historical school written by colleagues, coworkers and former students of Gerd Lëdemann from Germany, Scandinavia, the United States and Japan. The spectrum of topics is broad, and they stem from the many fields of interests Lëdemann has written about - the exegesis of the New Testament, the reconstruction of the history of early Christianity as well as research on the influential religio-historical school of thought.
£90.99
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Jahrbuch für Liturgik und Hymnologie: 2019
Book SynopsisDas Jahrbuch wird in seinem liturgischen Teil mit einem Beitrag zur FÃ"rbitte fÃ"r die Verstorbenen eröffnet. Ein zweiter Beitrag untersucht das verantwortliche Handeln im protestantischen Abendmahl der 1970er Jahre. Die hymnologischen Beiträge stammen aus verschiedenen Teildisziplinen. Der erste behandelt Paul Ebers â Herr Jesu Christ, wahrâ Mensch und Gottâ . Der zweite befasst sich mit den melodischen Aufwärtsverlagerungen bei frÃ"hen Kirchenliedern, während sich der dritte Beitrag Balthasar Schnurr widmet. Der vierte listet Komponisten und Dichter des evangelischen Gesangbuchs und vergleichbarer GesangbÃ"cher auf, während der fÃ"nfte sich mit dem Nachlass von Arno Pötsch auseinandersetzt. Literaturberichte zur Liturgik und Hymnologie mit internationalem Blick sowie Register zu Liedern und Personennamen runden das Jahrbuch ab.
£68.39
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Reisen nach Jerusalem: Westdeutsche Christen im
Book SynopsisWith what expectations, ideas and presuppositions did Germans travel to Israel or rather the Holy Land in the period from the 1950s to the 1970s, and how were their interpretations of the traveled space shaped? West German group trips by Christian organizations between traditional trips to the Holy Land and modern forms of tourism were exposed to a wide variety of influences. The analysis of patterns of interpretation focuses on the change in religiosity in the Federal Republic, dealing with the past of the Holocaust, the Middle East conflict that has escalated in various crises and wars, and attributions to what is foreign and what is familiar. Three forms of travel are examined as examples: pilgrimages, study trips and voluntary services and thus the range of Christian travel by Germans to Israel and the "Holy Land" is shown.
£84.43
Schnell & Steiner Lehre Mich Die Weihnachtskunst: Zur Geschichte
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£36.32
NIAS Press Dieties and Divas: Queer Ritual Specialists in
Book SynopsisIn central Thailand, a flamboyantly turbaned gay medium for the Hindu god of the underworld posts Facebook selfies of himself hugging and kissing a young man. In Myanmar’s largest city Yangon, a one-time member of a gay NGO dons an elaborate wedding dress to be ritually married to a possessing female spirit; he believes she will offer more support for his gay lifestyle than the path of LGBTQ activism. The only son of a Chinese trading family in Bangkok finds acceptance for his homosexuality and crossdressing when he becomes the medium for a revered female Chinese deity. And in northern Thailand, female mediums smoke, drink, flaunt butch masculine poses and flirt with female followers when they are ritually possessed by male warrior deities. Across the Buddhist societies of mainland Southeast Asia, local queer cultures are at the center of a recent proliferation of professional spirit mediumship. Drawing on detailed ethnographies and extensive comparative research, Deities and Divas captures this variety and ferment. The first book to trace commonalities between queer and religious cultures in Southeast Asia and the West, it reveals how modern gay, trans and spirit medium communities all emerge from a shared formative matrix of capitalism and new media. With insights and analysis that transcend the modern opposition of religion vs secularity, it provides fascinating new perspectives in transnational cultural, religious and queer studies.
£77.00
NIAS Press Spirit Possession in Buddhist Southeast Asia:
Book SynopsisIn dramatic contrast to the reported growing influence of doctrinal and fundamentalist forms of religion in some parts of Southeast Asia, the predominantly Buddhist societies of the region are witnessing an upsurge of spirit possession cults and diverse forms of magical ritual. This is found in many social strata, including the urban poor, rising middle classes and elite groups, and across the different political systems of Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. This volume reveals both the central historical place of spirit possession rituals in the Buddhist cultures of mainland Southeast Asia and their important contemporary roles to enhance prosperity and protection. This book examines the increasing prominence of spirit mediumship and divination across the region by exploring the interplay of neoliberal capitalism, visual media, the network cultures of the Internet, and the politics of cultural heritage and identity. It advances beyond critiques of the “secularization” and “disenchantment” theses to explore the processes of modernity that are actively producing magical worldviews and stimulating the rise of spirit cults. As such, it not only challenges the assumptions of modernization theory but demonstrates that the cults in question are novel ritual forms that emerge out of inherently modern conditions.
£77.00
Edizioni Terra Santa La Notte Degli Angeli
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£19.09
Edizioni Terra Santa Quotidianamente Da Prima del 1336: La Processione
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£40.00
Peeters Publishers Christian Feast and Festival: The Dynamics of
Book SynopsisThis collection on Christian feast culture is closely connected with the first Dutch national research program, Liturgical Movements and Feast Culture, which was conceived and initiated in 1995, and coordinated by the Interuniversity Liturgical Institute, headquartered in Tilburg. The collection marks the conclusion of the program, and through a report of work in progress is intended to present a sort of sampler of Dutch liturgical studies for an international forum. Against the broader background of modern multidisciplinary liturgical studies and the theme of liturgical movements, the dynamic of cultus and culture, Christian feast culture in the year and in life forms the central theme of the collection. A number of choices have had to be made as this developed. For example, the collection almost exclusively focuses on Western Christian rituality, in which, within that Western perspective, broader ritual contexts are brought into the discussion. The collection is divided into four parts. In addition to an introduction (part I) to situate the topic, part II contains a series of systematic, theoretical explorations, which present diverse but also converging disciplinary approaches, generally illustrating them as well. Part III comprises historical explorations. Part IV comprises studies in contemporary liturgical practice, including the liturgia condenda. Each of the parts II-IV has an introduction in which an effort is made to offer some lines of synthesis and evaluation.
£93.04
Peeters Publishers Rituals in Abundance: Critical Reflections on the
Book SynopsisRituals are closely linked with culture. This book is a consideration of Christian ritual in our culture. It was originally written particularly with an eye to the ritual developments in The Netherlands, which can be considered as representative for our Western European culture. It has been revised and expanded for the English edition. As in other European countries, in the 1960s Dutch society witnessed a serious crisis in ritual. The situation was paradoxical. While, under the influence of the Second Vatican Council and the Liturgical Movement, in the Catholic churches there was a great creativity with regard to ritual, ritual was gradually disappearing from the society at large, and participation in Christian ritual was rapidly draining away. A religious void arose. However, since then the situation has changed fundamentally. Rituals were rediscovered in the 1990s, indeed to such an extent that one can now speak of 'rituals in abundance'. In this book the author sketches out the directions and sets out signposts for where ritual is going in contemporary culture. He traces the peculiar characteristics of ritual, indicates what shifts have taken place, and tries to further define the identity of various rituals. In doing this, he concentrates on the question of the place of Christian ritual in our culture. How is Christian ritual connected with the many rites in our culture? What new shape is it taking on in our culture? In the midst of the other rites, what is the peculiar identity of Christian ritual? In this book the accent is on the anthropological approach to Christian ritual: it works from the bottom up. The book seeks answers to the questions being asked in the discipline of ritual studies, which particularly since the second half of the 1980s has arisen as an important realm or stage on which different disciplines studying ritual come together.
£56.38
Peeters Publishers Die Modernen Ritual Studies Als Herausforderung
Book SynopsisDie Rede von der 'Wiederkehr' der Rituale hat sich zu einem Topos in der jungeren theologischen und kulturwissenschaftlichen Diskussion entwickelt. Manche sehen in Westeuropa tatsachlich eine Renaissance von Ritualen. Andere sprechen nur von einer neuen Aufmerksamkeit fur Rituale und die Bedeutung, die sie fur Individuum und Gemeinschaft, auch fur Religion und Kirche besitzen. Zu welchen Forschungsergebnissen kommen Liturgiewissenschaft und ritual studies mit Blick auf die 'rituelle Landschaft' heute? Welche Funktionen besitzen religiose Rituale in multikulturellen westlichen Gesellschaften? Welche neuen Rituale treten zum klassischen Repertoire hinzu? Wie lassen sich nicht zuletzt Rituale theologisch interpretieren? Die Arbeitsgemeinschaft katholischer Liturgiewissenschaftlerinnen und -wissenschaftler eV (AKL) hat sich in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Liturgisch Instituut (Tilburg) auf ihrer Jahrestagung 2006 mit dem Thema 'Die modernen ritual studies als Herausforderung fur die Liturgiewissenschaft' beschaftigt. Liturgiewissenschaftler, Religionswissenschaftler und Ethnologen haben das weite Feld der ritual studies mit Blick auf liturgiewissenschaftliche Fragestellungen erschlossen. Im vorliegenden Band sind die Tagungsvortrage zusammengestellt, angeordnet nach unterschiedlichen Themenfeldern, Methoden und Zielsetzungen. Er will zu einer intensiven Diskussion in und zwischen den beteiligten Fachwissenschaften anregen. The discussion of the 'return' of ritual has developed into a topos in recent debates in theology and cultural studies. Some see a real renaissance of ritual in western Europe. Others speak only of a new awareness of ritual and the meaning which it has for individuals and society, as well as for religion and the Church. What are the results of research with a view to the 'ritual landscape' in the fields of liturgy and ritual studies today? What functions do religious rituals serve in multicultural western society? What new rituals are being added to the classical repertoire? And finally, how can rituals be interpreted from a theological perspective? At its biannual conference in 2006 the Incorporated Consortium of Catholic Liturgists (AKL) in cooperation with the Liturgical Institute (Tilburg) took as its topic 'Modern ritual studies as a challenge for liturgical studies'. Liturgists, scholars of religious studies and ethnologists addressed the wide field of ritual studies with an eye to liturgical questions. The present volume brings together the lectures from the conference, ordered according to their various themes, methods and goals. This work is intended to encourage intensive discussion within and between the areas of study involved.
£77.90
Peeters Publishers Worship in the Network Culture: Liturgical Ritual
Book SynopsisWorship signifies a wide field of liturgical ritual practices that extend from the Sunday morning service in a mainline church through a worship service in an African Independent Church to Christian ritual on the internet and cultural ritual-symbolic practices. Solid and solidified concepts are no longer sufficient for the study of this liquid field. This book approaches liturgical ritual from a different perspective. The first part of this book maps and explores the field of liturgical ritual studies. The second part of the book takes a first step in the process of conceptualisation and elaborates on the sensitising concept of liminality. In part three various aspects of the field are elaborated on in six double perspectives: bricolage/particularity, language/silence, image/sound, embodiment/performance, play/function, time/space. Part four reviews the road that the book has covered to this point from the two theological perspectives that characterise Protestant worship: Sacrament/Word and Prayer/Worship.
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Peeters Publishers Rites and Rituals of the Christian East:
Book SynopsisThis book comprises twenty-one selected papers from the Fourth Congress of the international scholarly Society of Oriental Liturgy, held at the Universities of Notre Dame and Balamand in Lebanon, July 2012. These articles reflect studies on Coptic, Ethiopian and Eritrean, Syriac, Greek-Byzantine, Slavonic, and other liturgies. The authors examine, inter alia, the rites of matrimony, the blessing of the waters, and the Eucharistic Prothesis; developments in Christian iconography; early Christian worship and liturgical theology; new methodological approaches. The papers discuss both the historical practice of diverse Eastern Churches and the current situation. The present collection of articles shows clearly the progress made in a fascinating field of research.
£85.00
Peeters Publishers Bonding in Worship: A Ritual Lens on Social
Book SynopsisIn Sub-Saharan Africa Christianity is experiencing unprecedented growth and many people worship on a regular basis. Simultaneously, many parts of Sub-Saharan Africa experience challenges such as poverty and inequality. Given this reality and these challenges, a group of international scholars investigated the ritual practices of one of the fastest growing traditions, namely African Independent Churches, over a period of more than four years. The research team set out to explore the role of religious rituals in social capital formation and social development at community level in an African Independent Church in South Africa. This book is the final, comprehensive and synthesising product in which the international and interdisciplinary team of scholars from theology, religion and development present their findings. The book is structured into three parts that reflects its theoretical, empirical and evaluative dimensions. In part I, theoretical perspectives are offered on the main conceptual apparatus of the book and the authors’ own understanding of the nexus between the different concepts. In part II, the theoretical arguments of the book are further worked out by means of eight explorations comprising of qualitative field work research in the religious milieus of African Independent worshippers in KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape, South Africa. In part III, a final set of chapters, by reflecting on the case studies in part II, offer wider appreciations and applications of the role religious ritual in social capital formation. This includes reflections on the African notion of ubuntu and the challenges that the ritual lens offers to policy makers in South African society, but also African society and the global South more generally speaking when seeking answers to the problem of development.
£74.06
Peeters Publishers Toward the Origins of Christmas
Book SynopsisChristmas exerts an enormous attraction today even apart from its Christian character as a celebration of the incarnation of God in the Person of Jesus. Even marginal or indifferent Christians crowd the churches on Christmas Eve and in highly commercialized and technologized Western societies the Christmas season is celebrated with enthousiasm. Yet Christmas entered the calendar of feasts relatively late, by 336 C.E., and the reason for its introduction and quick spread remain speculative and based on fragmentary evidence. Towards the Origins of Christmas addresses both the contemporary Western celebration of Christmas, and its deep historical roots in the church of the fourth century. The book presents a thorough investigation of the patristic texts and evidence cited by liturgical scholars in the late 19th and 20th centuries to support two main theories: the Calculation theory and the History of Religions theory. This historical research is set in the framework of the contemporary experience of Christmas; the dynamics of time and the liturgical year; the inculturation of liturgy; and underlying elements of dualism and patriarchal power paradigms which linger beneath the often commercial and sentimental character of Christmas today. Suzan K. Roll was born in Clarence Center, New York (USA) in 1952. She holds degrees in classical languages and pastoral theology, and in 1993 received a Ph. D. from the Faculty of Theology of the Catholic University of Louvain (Leuven), Belgium, summa cum laude with the gratulations of the jury. She has thaught and published in the field of liturgy, sacraments, pastoral theology, and presently teaches at Christ the King Seminary, Buffalo, New York (USA).
£37.79
Peeters Publishers Sacerdoce des baptisés et liturgie: une
Book SynopsisLa liturgie permet-elle aux chrétiens d’être des acteurs à part entière? La «participation active» a déjà beaucoup apporté pour faciliter l’implication de tous et chacun dans la liturgie, mais il est possible d’aller plus loin en mettant en relief le sacerdoce des baptisés. Ce sacerdoce s’exerce dans le quotidien, mais inclut aussi la liturgie par le simple fait de participer à une célébration. Comment amener les membres de nos communautés à en prendre mieux conscience? Dans cet ouvrage, l’auteur propose de ritualiser davantage le sacerdoce des baptisés dans la liturgie, de façon malléable et flexible, afin que cette dignité de tous les chrétiens devienne plus concrète pour eux. Pour explorer les fondements théologiques d’une telle ritualisation, il prend pour point de départ le concept d’«agent ritualisé» de Catherine Bell, spécialiste en ritual studies, qui veut qu’un sujet qui met en œuvre la ritualité qui le constitue se laisse façonner par son contexte et le façonne à son tour. Une analyse de l’agent ritualisé est mise en interaction avec la pensée de quatre théologiens de la sacramentaire faite en postmodernité, soit Louis-Marie Chauvet – le principal auteur considéré – Andrea Grillo, Kenan B. Osborne et David N. Power, de façon à articuler ce que pourrait être un «agent ritualisé chrétien». Cette démarche permet d’articuler ce qui se passe chez un chrétien qui ritualise le sacerdoce des baptisés dans la liturgie : au sein de mouvements corporels traditionnels ou nouveaux, prévus ou spontanés, il peut saisir les moments d’offrande d’une célébration afin de s’offrir au Père, dans le Christ, sous l’impulsion de l’Esprit, en faveur des autres.
£64.00
Peeters Publishers Handbook of Disaster Ritual: Multidisciplinary
Book SynopsisThe Handbook of Disaster Ritual presents an overview of relevant literature, perspectives, methods, concepts, as well as a selection of topical themes in relation to current disaster rituals. The handbook has been compiled from multi-disciplinary and geographically diverse perspectives and works with broad definitions of the concepts of both disaster and ritual. A disaster is defined as an event or situation that causes a significant disruption of a society or a group and evokes a collective and/or an individual reaction with expression of mourning, compassion, indignation, protest, call for justice, recovery, reconciliation, and consolation. In this working definition, it is clear that the impact of a disaster is ‘translated ritually’. Disasters bring forth a variety of ritual practices. The Handbook of Disaster Ritual consists of three parts. After an extensive conceptual and historiographical introduction, Part I presents several perspectives on the study of disasters and disaster rituals. In Part II, a team of international scholars presents nineteen case studies of various disasters and disaster rituals. Part III addresses various themes from the case studies that can be seen as key elements in disaster rituals.
£105.00
Peeters Publishers Experiencing Presence in the Second Temple
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together twelve essays by Angela Kim Harkins that use integrative and interdisciplinary approaches to contribute new insights to the understanding of religious experience in ancient Judaism and Christianity. Building on the text-centered work that characterizes much of Second Temple studies, Harkins seeks to reintegrate ancient Jewish and Christian texts with various aspects of the flesh-and-blood experience of religion by using performance-based methods, ritual studies, integrative cognitive science approaches, and emotion studies. This volume aims to overcome the common mind-body dualism that dominates the study of ancient texts by offering ways to imagine the integrative phenomenological experience of these texts for ancient peoples.
£95.00
Peeters Publishers Worship Reshaped by Interruption
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Editorial Terracota Despertar al zen
Book SynopsisLa meditación zen —o zazen— puede considerarse una “depuración de la mente” porque la purifica y libera de las ideas inútiles y fugaces que nos atascan y limitan. Una vez que logremos la concentración e interiorización que requiriere su práctica, despertaremos nuestro espíritu y tendremos una vida creativa, armoniosa y plena. Sin importar que nuestros conocimientos sobre budismo sean pocos, este libro nos da la oportunidad de iniciarnos en nuestra búsqueda espiritual.
£13.25
Editorial Terracota El ideal del bodhisatva
Book SynopsisEl ideal del bodhisatva representa tanto la búsqueda de la claridad mental que otorgan la sabiduría, la renuncia y la reflexión, como la consideración y ayuda constante a los demás. Este libro, que ofrece un panorama reflexivo y práctico, muestra el camino exquisito de transformación y arduo adiestramiento que sigue el bodhisatva durante su vida para lograr las condiciones físicas, mentales, emocionales y energéticas que requiere para dedicarse a alcanzar la suprema iluminación en beneficio de todos los seres vivientes.
£14.20
