Tag: Ritual

January 4, 2024

Acts and Texts Performance and Ritual in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

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Free Download Laurie Postlewate, Wim Husken, "Acts and Texts: Performance and Ritual in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance"
English | 2007 | pages: 362 | ISBN: 9042021918 | PDF | 4,0 mb
For the Middle Ages and Renaissance, meaning and power were created and propagated through public performance. Processions, coronations, speeches, trials, and executions are all types of public performance that were both acts and texts: acts that originated in the texts that gave them their ideological grounding; texts that bring to us today a trace of their actual performance. Literature, as well, was for the pre-modern public a type of performance: throughout the medieval and early modern periods we see a constant tension and negotiation between the oral/aural delivery of the literary work and the eventual silent/read reception of its written text. The current volume of essays examines the plurality of forms and meanings given to performance in the Middle Ages and Renaissance through discussion of the essential performance/text relationship. The authors of the essays represent a variety of scholarly disciplines and subject matter: from the "performed" life of the Dominican preacher, to coronation processions, to book presentations; from satirical music speeches, to the rendering of widow portraits, to the performance of romance and pious narrative. Diverse in their objects of study, the essays in this volume all examine the links between the actual events of public performance and the textual origins and subsequent representation of those performances.

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September 28, 2023

Mediating the Power of Buddhas Ritual in the Manjusrimulakalpa

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Free Download Glenn Wallis, "Mediating the Power of Buddhas: Ritual in the Manjusrimulakalpa"
English | 2002 | pages: 280 | ISBN: 0791454126, 0791454118 | PDF | 1,4 mb
Analyzes a seventh-century ritual manual that provides both a rich source of information of medieval Buddhist life and addresses the ongoing concern of how an adherent can encounter the power of a buddha.

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August 17, 2023

Ritual Abuse and Mind Control The Manipulation of Attachment Needs

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Free Download Ritual Abuse and Mind Control: The Manipulation of Attachment Needs By Epstein, Orit Badouk(Editor);Schwartz, Joseph(Editor);Wingfield, Rachel(Editor);Lacter, Ellen P(Contributor)
2011 | 202 Pages | ISBN: 1855758393 | PDF | 2 MB
People who have survived ritual abuse or mind control experiments have often been silenced, accused of lying, mocked and disbelieved. Clinicians working with survivors often find themselves isolated, facing the same levels of disbelief and denial from other professionals within the mental health field. This report – based on proceedings from a conference on the subject – presents knowledge and experience from both clinicians and survivors to promote understanding and recovery from organized and ritual abuse, mind control and programming. The book combines clinical presentations, survivors’ voices, and research material to help address the ways in which we can work clinically with mind control and cult programming from the perspective of relational psychotherapy.

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August 16, 2023

Around the Hearth Ritual and commensal practices in the Mediterranean Iron Age fom the Aegean World to the Iberian Peni

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Free Download Jérémy Lamaze, "Around the Hearth: Ritual and commensal practices in the Mediterranean Iron Age fom the Aegean World to the Iberian Peni"
English | ISBN: 3110738279 | 2021 | 190 pages | EPUB, PDF | 16 MB + 7 MB
From basic needs, such as lighting, heating or cooking, to symbolic or ritual engagement, hearths in indoor contexts serve as a focal point. This is especially evident, both spatially and architecturally, in structures containing central hearths. In assessing any gathering around a hearth, the types of social groups involved need to be determined and their interactions clearly assessed in each specific case. Beyond clearly domestic contexts, many rooms or buildings have been deemed religious or cultic places often based solely on the presence of a hearth, despite other possible interpretations. This volume appraises and contextualises diversity in practice centering on the hearth in the Aegean and, more widely, in areas of the Western Mediterranean closely connected to Greek civilization, notably through its colonies, revealing surprising similarities but also local adaptations. In the West, the use of the hearth often has a unique character arising from local adaptations born of indigenous practices. The combined approach presented here, detailing technical aspects of the hearths themselves, their architectural settings and any associated artefacts or furnishings, affords a rich spectrum for cross-cultural analysis between these Mediterranean regions.

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July 23, 2023

Water and Ritual The Rise and Fall of Classic Maya Rulers

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Free Download Water and Ritual: The Rise and Fall of Classic Maya Rulers By Lucero, Lisa Joyce
2006 | 253 Pages | ISBN: 0292709994 | PDF | 9 MB
In the southern Maya lowlands, rainfall provided the primary and, in some areas, the only source of water for people and crops. Classic Maya kings sponsored elaborate public rituals that affirmed their close ties to the supernatural world and their ability to intercede with deities and ancestors to ensure an adequate amount of rain, which was then stored to provide water during the four-to-five-month dry season. As long as the rains came, Maya kings supplied their subjects with water and exacted tribute in labor and goods in return. But when the rains failed at the end of the Classic period (AD 850-950), the Maya rulers lost both their claim to supernatural power and their temporal authority. Maya commoners continued to supplicate gods and ancestors for rain in household rituals, but they stopped paying tribute to rulers whom the gods had forsaken.In this paradigm-shifting book, Lisa Lucero investigates the central role of water and ritual in the rise, dominance, and fall of Classic Maya rulers. She documents commoner, elite, and royal ritual histories in the southern Maya lowlands from the Late Preclassic through the Terminal Classic periods to show how elites and rulers gained political power through the public replication and elaboration of household-level rituals. At the same time, Lucero demonstrates that political power rested equally on material conditions that the Maya rulers could only partially control. Offering a new, more nuanced understanding of these dual bases of power, Lucero makes a compelling case for spiritual and material factors intermingling in the development and demise of Maya political complexity.

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