Revisioning Ritual

Revisioning Ritual
Author: Simon J. Bronner
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2011-09-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1800857411

A fascinating analysis of how the study of ritual is critical to illuminating what is Jewish about Jewishness.

Ritual, Emotion, and Materiality in the Early Christian World

Ritual, Emotion, and Materiality in the Early Christian World
Author: Soham Al-Suadi
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2021-12-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 100053474X

This volume advances our understanding of early Christianity as a lived religion by approaching it through its rites, the emotions and affects surrounding those rites, and the material setting for the practice of them. The connections between emotions and ritual, between rites and their materiality, and between emotions and their physical manifestation in ancient Mediterranean culture have been inadequately explored as yet, especially with regard to early Christianity and its water and dining rites. Readers will find all three areas—ritual, emotion, and materiality—engaged in this exemplary interdisciplinary study, which provides fresh insights into early Christianity and its world. Ritual, Emotion, and Materiality in the Early Christian World will be of special interest to interdisciplinary-minded researchers, seminarians, and students who are attentive to theory and method, and those with an interest in the New Testament and earliest Christianity. It will also appeal to those working on ancient Jewish and Greco-Roman religion, emotion, and ritual from a comparative standpoint.

Muslims Ritualising Death in the Netherlands

Muslims Ritualising Death in the Netherlands
Author: Claudia Venhorst
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2013
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 3643903510

This study on the common practice of Islamic death rites in the Netherlands affords valuable insights in the lived religion of Muslims. Particularly in a small town context marked by migration and diversity, Muslims are challenged to re-imagine and re-invent their ritual repertoire. This results in dynamic ritual practices that are the product of vibrant negotiation processes in which rites interact with ritual actors and their (changing) contexts. The emerging ritual repertoire and their dynamics are widely overlooked in an institutionalized and traditional religion like Islam. (Series: Death Studies. Nijmegen Studies in Thanatology - Vol. 3)

Re-Visioning Psychiatry

Re-Visioning Psychiatry
Author: Laurence J. Kirmayer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 725
Release: 2015-07-29
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1107032202

Revisioning Psychiatry brings together new perspectives on the causes and treatment of mental health problems. The contributors emphasize the importance of understanding experience and explore how the brain, the person, and the social world interact to give rise to mental health problems as well as resilience and recovery.

Ritual in Deuteronomy

Ritual in Deuteronomy
Author: Melissa D. Ramos
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2021-04-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351335170

Ritual in Deuteronomy explores the symbolic world of Deuteronomy’s ritual covenant and curses through a lens of religious studies and anthropology, drawing on previously unexamined Mesopotamian material. This book focuses on the ritual material in Deuteronomy including commands regarding sacrifice, prayer objects, and especially the dramatic ritual enactment of the covenant including curses. The book’s most unique feature is an entirely new comparative study of Deut 27–30 with two ritual texts from Mesopotamia. No studies to date have undertaken a comparison of Deut 27–30 with ancient Near Eastern ritual texts outside of the treaty oath tradition. This fresh comparison illuminates how the ritual life of ancient Israel shaped the literary form of Deuteronomy and concludes that the performance of oaths was a social strategy, addressing contemporary anxieties and reinforcing systems of cultural power. This book offers a fascinating comparative study which will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students in biblical studies, classical Hebrew, theology, and ancient Near Eastern studies. The book’s more technical aspects will also appeal to scholars of the Pentateuch, Deuteronomy, Biblical Law, Ancient Near Eastern History, Mesopotamian Studies, and Classics.

Re-Visioning Family Therapy

Re-Visioning Family Therapy
Author: Monica McGoldrick
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Total Pages: 641
Release: 2019-05-14
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1462539742

A leading text for courses that go beyond the basics of family systems theory, intervention techniques, and diversity, this influential work has now been significantly revised with 65% new material. The volume explores how family relationships--and therapy itself--are profoundly shaped by race, social class, gender, religion, sexual orientation, and other intersecting dimensions of marginalization and privilege. Chapters from leading experts guide the practitioner to challenge assumptions about family health and pathology, understand the psychosocial impact of oppression, and tap into clients' cultural resources for healing. Practical clinical strategies are interwoven with theoretical insights, case examples, training ideas, and therapists' reflections on their own cultural and family legacies. New to This Edition *Existing chapters have been thoroughly updated and 21 chapters added, expanding the perspectives in the book. *Reflects over a decade of theoretical and clinical advances and the growing diversity of the United States. *New sections on re-visioning clinical research, trauma and psychological homelessness, and larger systems.

Ritual: A Very Short Introduction

Ritual: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Barry Stephenson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2015-01-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0199943583

Ritual is part of what it means to be human. Like sports, music, and drama, ritual defines and enriches culture, putting those who practice it in touch with sources of value and meaning larger than themselves. Ritual is unavoidable, yet it holds a place in modern life that is decidedly ambiguous. What is ritual? What does it do? Is it useful? What are the various kinds of ritual? Is ritual tradition bound and conservative or innovative and transformational? Alongside description of a number of specific rites, this Very Short Introduction explores ritual from both theoretical and historical perspectives. Barry Stephenson focuses on the places where ritual touches everyday life: in politics and power; moments of transformation in the life cycle; as performance and embodiment. He also discusses the boundaries of ritual, and how and why certain behaviors have been studied as ritual while others have not. Stephenson shows how ritual is an important vehicle for group and identity formation; how it generates and transmits beliefs and values; how it can be used to exploit and oppress; and how it has served as a touchstone for thinking about cultural origins and historical change. Encompassing the breadth and depth of modern ritual studies, Barry Stephenson's Very Short Introduction also develops a narrative of ritual's place in social and cultural life. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Women and Religious Ritual

Women and Religious Ritual
Author: Lesley A. Northup
Publisher:
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1993
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Expanding the X-axis: women, religious ritual, and culture / Lesley A. Northup -- Women revisioning religious rituals / Diann Neu -- Womanist ritual / Amitiyah Elayne Hyman -- Dismantling patriarchy--a redemptive vision: ritual and feminist critical theology in basic ecclesial communities / Anne R. Andersson.