Religion, Ritual and Ritualistic Objects

• Main Author: Nugteren, Albertina (Tineke) (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Subjects: 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
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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...