Religion, Ritual and Ritualistic Objects

• Hoofdauteur: Nugteren, Albertina (Tineke) (auth)
• Formaat: Elektronisch Hoofdstuk
• Taal: Engels
• Gepubliceerd in: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Onderwerpen: Religion & beliefs; South America; Templar Order; symbol; continuing bonds; objects; assassination; Buddhist worship and repentance ritual; Dogon; Abui; healing; procession; children; cow dung; Ravana; nizarism; sema-taui; religious transfer of meaning; ethnography; digital games; Manichaeism; ritual; ritualizing; Hinduism; Alor-Pantar Archipelago; India; traditional religions; sacred geography; funeral; material culture; ritual creativity; gender; ritual manual; place of pilgrimage; Bible; funerary photography; oral legends and myths; libation ritual; initiation; ritualism; sacral tree; Sinhalese Buddhist Majority; Diagram of the Universe; embodiment; symbolic anthropology; mask; colonial period; Govardhan puja; Sri Lanka; nature; ankh; imaginative embodiment; ritual art; Lamòling; Vi??u's footprint; multiple readings of images; Alor; Xiapu manuscripts; kingship; death ritual; rituality; performance; Nilotic lotus; human-nonhuman sociality
• Online toegang: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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...