Religion, ritual and ritualistic objects / / edited by Albertina Nugteren.
This is a volume about the life and power of ritual objects in their religious ritual settings. In this Special Issue, we see a wide range of contributions on material culture and ritual practices across religions. By focusing on the dynamic interrelations between objects, ritual, and belief, it exp...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Basel, Switzerland : : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute,, [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- About the Special Issue Editor
- Preface to "Religion, Ritual and Ritualistic Objects"
- Introduction to the Special Issue Religion, Ritual, and Ritualistic Objects'
- Matter in Motion: A Dogon Kanaga Mask
- Requiescat in Pace'. Initiation and Assassination Rituals in the Assassin's Creed Game Series
- Lambling Baka: Immanence, Rituals, and Sacred Objects in an Unwritten Legend in Alor
- When Children Participate in the Death Ritual of a Parent: Funerary Photographs as Mnemonic Objects
- The Ritualizing of the Martial and Benevolent Side of Ravana in Two Annual Rituals at the Sri Devram Maha Viharaya in Pannipitiya, Sri Lanka
- On the Xiapu Ritual Manual Mani the Buddha of Light
- Influences of Egyptian Lotus Symbolism and Ritualistic Practices on Sacral Tree Worship in the Fertile Crescent from 1500 BCE to 200 CE
- Continuity and Discontinuity in 17th- and 18th-Century Ecclesiastical Silverworks from the Southern Andes
- Prayers of Cow Dung: Women Sculpturing Fertile Environments in Rural Rajasthan (India)
- Bare Feet and Sacred Ground: "Visnu Was Here".