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Author : Ingrid Hentschel
Release : 2005
Genre : Drama
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Book Rating : 694/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Play - ritual - representation by : Ingrid Hentschel
Download or read book Play - ritual - representation written by Ingrid Hentschel. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karil J. Kucera
Release : 2016-01-28
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 131/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Ritual and Representation in Chinese Buddhism by : Karil J. Kucera
Download or read book Ritual and Representation in Chinese Buddhism written by Karil J. Kucera. This book was released on 2016-01-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes 159 color images. Baodingshan consists of a monastic complex and two rock-carved areas, Little Buddha Bend and Great Buddha Bend, located in Dazu in western China and dates from the Southern Song period. The complex is fundamentally different from earlier Buddhist rock-carved sites in China in its construction and layout. Foregoing traditional niche-based iconography for large, deeply cut reliefs reaching dimensions as great as eight meters high by twenty meters wide, within Baodingshan's Great Buddha Bend, the carved works flow from one tableau into another. The site contains both texts and images related to the main schools of Buddhist thought. This book presents an integrated analysis of all of the components of Great Buddha Bend within the greater Baodingshan site, something that was lacking in earlier studies. Written to provide guidance to the site for a wide spectrum of readers-specialists and non-specialists alike-it provides a clear explanation of the major iconographic features of the imagery as well as translations of the numerous accompanying carved Buddhist texts. It also presents the basic tenets of Pure Land, Chan [Zen], Huayan and Esoteric Buddhism in order to explain the features of these sects as seen represented in visual as well as textual form at the site. Lastly, with its focus on ritual use and audience reception from the 12th to the 21st century, this study provides a new model for the discussion and evaluation of other religious sites as entities that organically evolve over time. This study also includes new translations of both the inscribed Buddhist texts and secular inscriptions carved at the site dating from the twelfth through the twenty-first centuries-inscriptions left by educated elite, soldiers, and government officials, highlighting regional issues related to continuity and change made visible at Baodingshan.
Author : Colin Renfrew
Release : 2018
Genre : Psychology
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Book Rating : 56X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Ritual, Play, and Belief in Evolution and Early Human Societies by : Colin Renfrew
Download or read book Ritual, Play, and Belief in Evolution and Early Human Societies written by Colin Renfrew. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents unique new insights into the development of human ritual and society through our heritage of play and performance.
Author : Margaret Thompson Drewal
Release : 1992-03-22
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 737/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Yoruba Ritual by : Margaret Thompson Drewal
Download or read book Yoruba Ritual written by Margaret Thompson Drewal. This book was released on 1992-03-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yoruba peoples of southwestern Nigeria conceive of rituals as journeys -- sometimes actual, sometimes virtual. Performed as a parade or a procession, a pilgrimage, a masking display, or possession trance, the journey evokes the reflexive, progressive, transformative experience of ritual participation. Yoruba Ritual is an original and provocative study of these practices. Using a performance paradigm, Margaret Thompson Drewal forges a new theoretical and methodological approach to the study of ritual that is thoroughly grounded in close analysis of the thoughts and actions of the participants. Challenging traditional notions of ritual as rigid, stereotypic, and invariant, Drewal reveals ritual to be progressive, transformative, generative, and reflexive and replete with simultaneity, multifocality, contingency, indeterminacy, and intertextuality. Throughout the book prominence is given to the intentionality of actors as knowledgeable agents who transform ritual itself through play and improvisation. Integral to the narrative are interpolations about performances and their meanings by Kolawole Ositola, a scholar of Yoruba oral tradition, ritual practitioner, diviner, and master performer. Rich descriptions of rituals relating to birth, death, reincarnation, divination, and constructions of gender are rendered all the more vivid by a generous selection of field photos of actual performances.
Author : Daniel Burgos
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Book Synopsis Rituals and Music in Europe by : Daniel Burgos
Download or read book Rituals and Music in Europe written by Daniel Burgos. This book was released on . Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
